Archive for the 'beer' Category
215 Beer: Crafty Move by Anheuser, but Not In the Good Way
More commentary to follow:
A few weeks back, I was at a hot rod show in upstate NY, where two of Anheuser’s other fake craft beers were being sold: 312 and Goose Island, which were recently bought out by the global industri-brew giant. Now, I don’t know how these beers tasted prior to acquisition by AB/Inbev, [...]
Read More..>>All I Wanna Do…
I’m sitting here at my new job, which I like very much, searching for grants and other funding oppportunities.
As I’m doing this, I am more cognizant than ever that all I wanna do is play music and make beer.
Bar AIDS: Drink Away the Virus!
Cross-posted at Suburban Guerrilla
I remember this commercial, which appeared about a week before the AIDS crisis exploded.
Action AIDS is one of the many non-profit human services organizations in Philadelphia, and their name is pretty self-explanatory. Like most non-profits, Action AIDS is under the gun due to the economic calamity we’re living in. (And [...]
Waka Waka Waka
I haven’t bought yeast in the past two or three months: instead I’ve been washing the stuff and re-using it. The variety is PAc-Man, which is (maybe at this point was) available at Wyeast.
The strain is well-named: the sound is exactly like Pac-Man when the ghosts have turned blue and the little yellow fella [...]
Quick Beer post
the roasty toasty porter came out delicious, and we’ve been drinking on it for the past week or so. And on Wednesday, I kegged the pale ale that spawned it (pale ales typically go through a week or two of secondary fermentation, while porter does not: thus, beer number three was ready long before [...]
Read More..>>Porter
We tapped the porter last night. It was a little early: not in terms of fermentation (it’s right where it needs to be, 4.5% ABV), but in terms of settling. When you force carbonate, you have to shake the keg vigorously a few times. This moves the molecules around and makes the CO2 absorb [...]
Read More..>>Sunday Homebrewing
I am about to start beer number 3 from the Wyeast 1056 American Ale series, and figured I’d get y’all up to speed.
About 3 weeks ago, I made what I’m calling “The Simcoe Bomb”: this delicious ale was made from 10 pounds of 2-row pilsen malt, 1 pound pf German CaraFoam (gives a nice head), [...]
Open Letter to the PLCB
Dear Mr. Stapleton, Mr. goldsmith, and Mr. Marcus:
As a taxpaying citizen of Pennsylvania, I demand that you rein in the PLCB and stop the destructive and embarrassing raids you are conducting in Philadelphia. As has become clear, the beverages confiscated for not being properly registered actually ARE registered, but the PLCB recorded the names [...]
ABOLISH THE PA LIQUOR CONTROL BOARD.
So much for my blogcation: yesterday, the Pennsylvania Liquor control Board raided three Philadelphia bars, all owned by Brendan Harntranft, for thorughly spurious reasons:
More than a dozen armed State Police officers conducted simultaneous raids last week on three popular Philadelphia bars known for their wide beer selections. The cops confiscated hundreds of bottles of expensive [...]
Beer Update
Thanks to the yeast I used, the ESB (now fully carbonated) went through a bit of a stuck fermentation, or so I thought. I had used Wyeast 1968, London ESB Ale, because, hey, that was the style I brewed up.
What i didn’t know was that the 1968 ferments EXTREMELY quickly. As in, “1.5 days [...]
