Grand Reserve Clone Bottling

Not sure why the video is so blurry. I blame Ioni. Anyway, you get the idea.   The process:     The result: The aftermath: The tragedy:

Calamus Ale Version 2.0

I think B4B should start a YouTube channel… I’ll post the videos and photos from the Grand Reserve bottling real soon.

Raise a Little Helles

Here’s another video review. This one is for Beau’s Helles Lager. This is more of a summer beer than a winter beer, but whatever…   We never did arrive at a rating for this one… maybe we can discuss it in the comments section? Note: Helles is a lager, not an ale. Fail.

Flying Monkeys’ Super Collider

This past Saturday, the B4B crew got together at Chris’ place to partake in our first ever group brew (post coming soon). While we were brewing, we had a bit of downtime to drink some beer and do a couple of group reviews. Since we were all together, we decided to try doing a video [...]

It Starts…

The other day I stopped into my friendly neighbourhood Liquor Depot to purchase a six-pack of Tankhouse that has miraculously made an appearance amongst the plethora of bland, mainstream beers that the Jackson Square store has to offer. Needless to say, I was more than pleasantly surprised to find that they still had Tankhouse, and [...]

Attempt #2

This time I’m using the Coopers English Bitter kit and added some hops and amber malt extract into the mix. It’s been fermenting away for a few days now and I just took the first final gravity reading. It’s @ 1.010 from 1.050 (original gravity). After applying the simple ABV formula of (OG – FG) [...]

Bobby’s Brew

After conditioning the beer for a while longer than the instructions suggested and having some friends and family taste it, I think it’s time for a review. About half of the beers have been consumed, so I have had many opportunities to get some feedback and form my own opinions. All in all, this experience [...]

St. Bernardus Tripel

As with most Abbey beers, there’s a lot of history behind St. Bernardus. Basically, this is as close to being a Trappist beer as you can get… without officially being called a Trappist. In fact, St. Bernardus was considered to be one until 1992 when the other 7 elite Trappist Monasteries decided that beers could [...]

Bacchus Vlaams Oud Bruin

I’ve decided that I’m going to wait a while before I do a review of my home brew. I want to allow a few more days for secondary fermentation before I slap a rating on it. I think doing a review after only a week and a few days is a bit premature. Conditioning the [...]

Bottling

Having just cleaned and sanitized my recently acquired 750ml GLASS bottles, I syphoned the brew out of the initial fermenter into a glass carboy where I mixed it with 184 grams of fermentable sugar (8g per litre). With the aide of Dr. Sean Gadoury, we filled 32 and a half of the 34 bottles with [...]