http://beer.nwblog.com A Beaverton homebrewer shares his views and experiences on NW brew culture. en-us http://beer.nwblog.com/?PostID=450 08/26/2006 7:51:30am - This is the first recipe made using my 14-gallon stainless steel Fermenator.   I doubled the following 6-gallon recipe to fill 12 gallons of the Fermenator's capacity.   Ingredients  7 1/2 lbs. Wheat DME 7 lbs. fresh blackberries, froz... http://beer.nwblog.com/?PostID=449 08/22/2006 1:45:21pm - July 2006 - Okay, show's over. While the beer started off nice, and does in fact have a really smooth floral/citrusy hoppy aroma, my fears are confirmed - the bittering hops fell flat. Last year's, frozen, homegrown Cascade hops just didn't pull thro... http://beer.nwblog.com/?PostID=422 06/25/2006 5:16:43pm - June 24, 2006, 4pm - We bottled the ale. Found it is extremely light in all regards - flavor and bitter-wise, but it does have a nice aromatic hoppy aroma about it. At first I thought I was having iced tea.. not a good sign, but I'm hoping things wil... http://beer.nwblog.com/?PostID=421 06/20/2006 4:29:41pm - This is about the Cascade Ale clone, formerly known as Mirror Pond Ale clone. This went far dryer, and perhaps due to the light malt, it's just crisp, golden, and shall we say, "bright" in flavors and aromas. What a lovely summer brew!   With SG... http://beer.nwblog.com/?PostID=418 06/15/2006 10:43:39am - Wow. Dry hopping. Yum.   That is about all I have to say regarding the Mirror Pond clone. I transferred it to a secondary fermenter yesterday, and took a SG of 1.005. Whoops. A bit dry. Perhaps if I'd done it a few days earlier, the ferment woul... http://beer.nwblog.com/?PostID=416 06/05/2006 4:47:52pm - Well, it was bound to happen.    By late yesterday evening, only four hours after pitching the yeast, the air lock was slowly bubbling. By this morning, it was bubbling steadily, once per second. By this afternoon, about 24 hours after ferm... http://beer.nwblog.com/?PostID=415 06/05/2006 5:01:23am - When it comes to homebrewing, what's a "clone"? Essentially, it's a faithfully produced copy of a beer recipe. In homebrew terms, a clone recipe is one that mimics a commercially produced beer. I'll blog more about the art of cloning in another post ... http://beer.nwblog.com/?PostID=411 05/26/2006 3:43:25pm - Well, Reuters writers must have had a bit too much corpse rum, as it turns out their story about Hungarian home remodelers finding a corpse in a barrel of rum was in fact false, and based on an urban legend from ten years ago.   Still, I'm willi... http://beer.nwblog.com/?PostID=397 05/04/2006 4:38:06am - Ingredients:   - 1 human male, deceased  - 1 300-liter barrel filled with rum - 1 large shipping bill to provide reason to place man in rum - 1 crew of greedy house remodelers who discover barrel of rum   Did that just send you reeling... http://beer.nwblog.com/?PostID=279 01/03/2006 9:36:30pm - Weeks have now passed since I bottled the cider, that succulent, moderately sweet brew of fermented apples, which lay out in my garage for months... and every time I open up a 12-oz. bottle of the stuff, I am reminded of the amazing potential this st...