Yarrow Honey Mead

For I Gallon I used: -3 lbs. organic fireweed honey -1/5 tbsp. gypsum -3/4 tsp. acid blend (not as exciting as it sounds!) -Small pinch of Irish Moss -A handful of freshly picked yarrow leaves (I left the premature flowers alone so that they would seed more for future batches.) -3 gr. champagne yeast, dehydrated [...]

Bottled Steam Beer

“The Sun Has Left Us On Time Steam Beer” has been bottled in an array of different shapes and sizes of bottles, including a one gallon jug:

“The Sun Has Left Us On Time” Steam Beer

As Chris suggested I have moved my Imperial Stout into a secondary fermenter and am now in the process of cooling my wort from ”The Sun Has Left Us On Time” Steam Beer to pitch onto the yeast from the Imperial Stout. The Stout is merrily fermenting away in its new home, where it will live [...]

Nosradamus

A dark brown, ruby-reddish, “worn leather jacket” coloured beer. It’s well carbonated and kind of cloudy with a thick head that dissipates to the perimeter. It smells like a lemon tree. The flavour of this warming, strong Belgian ale is very complex. It took a few sips to appreciate it. At first it seemed to [...]

Honey Imperial Stout

This is my first homebrew, so I thought I’d make something that packs a punch! This is a modified recipe from the book “The New Complete Joy of Homebrewing”. Emma picked this book up for me at a rummage sale for something like 25 cents — and it’s great! It includes everything from how to [...]

Craft Beer Tasting

On Wednesday August 10th 2011 I hosted a craft beer tasting at the Royal Canadian Legion branch 232, Texada Island, B.C. In preparation for this event I learned quite a lot about beer (I had to try to sound intelligent after all.) I also had to choose 8 beers available in the Powell River area [...]

St. Peter’s Honey Porter

Thank-you, St. Peter, for brewing this heavenly beverage. If one day, I walk with you, St. Peter, we shall savour one together. For now I will continue to purchase them for $4.67 per 500ml from my friendly neighbourhood BC liquor store. The people at this store are intense man, they ask for 2 pieces of [...]

St-Ambroise Oatmeal Stout

Imagine the perfect stout beer. A beer to drink alone, by the wood-stove on a damp & dreary April night. Perhaps complimented by hand-rolled, filter-free Drum cigarette & an Al Purdy poem. This beer has achieved a balance between raw and smooth. It pours like fermented oil; thick, heavy, and intensely black. This is not [...]