This past Saturday Jeff and Bill and I set out to brew the three joint beers I mentioned last week. I say set out because… for the first time ever, we had a total brewing fail. The day started smoothly enough. First up was the Ahtanum Brown. I don’t have any of the recipes on me,...

Our favorite local beer bar, The Ruck, is holding an Extreme Brewing Contest limited to 6 pre-determined beer styles. I love this format. It keeps the judges focused, and it forces some real creativity on the parts of the entrants. My brewing partners and I decided to attack the full...

Since I’m stuck in the kitchen today anyway making food for the week, I figured I’d create a complete disaster and do some work with my existing brews. I finally kicked my Oatmeal Stout last weekend when I brought a growler up to a St. Patrick’s Day party, and I decided to...

Whoops! Not only did I forget to blog this, along with the Dark Mild, I didn’t take a picture of the runoff for my records. Trust me, it was ambery. This was a quickie keg-filler, an extract beer with a partial mash just to get some homebrew in the pipeline for when one of the current...

Going through my pictures, I realized I never blogged the last two homebrews I made. It also reminds me I need to rack them down to secondary, as it’s been three weeks. Oops! My brewing partner Bill and I settled on a Dark Mild as our first all-grain brew a couple years ago, choosing the...