For Christmas Sonya got me a beer of the season membership and I finally got my first box yesterday! Each season they send you a 12 pack, which includes three beers of four different types. Unfortunately I’ve already had Ipswich Nut Brown and my dog knocked over my first glass of the porter…but other than [...]

With our Red Ale bottled and finishing up with some last minute fermenting, I figured I’d share a few pictures from our third beer making process.

This past weekend Sonya and I started our third batch of beer (or cider), this time going with a Red Ale that we had received as a gift for Easter. We’ve had a fair amount of success so far with our Blonde Ale and cider, so let’s hope this one comes out at least as [...]

So this past few months, Sonya and I have been working on a batch of hard cider, but it hasn’t exactly gone according to plan. First of all, you’re supposed to let the cider ferment in the bucket at a sem-warm temperature for a few weeks. What we did was leave it in the bucket [...]

This past weekend we moved to phase two of the beer making process, which was bottling the fermented beer. Unlike the first phase of brewing the beer, which went pretty smooth, we ran into a few road bumps with this part of the process. The primary issue was that we didn’t have enough bottles! For [...]