Following the same stream of consciousness that lead me to make Tepache, I decided to attempt a beer centered around food. I wanted something that would both be reminiscent of and also pair well with …
As acclaimed chef Marco Pierre White is known for saying, “Perfection is lots of little things done well.” To that end, I’ve been re-brewing several older recipes- hoping to find the last few missing tweaks …
Fermentation is one of the oldest methods of cooking in human civilization, and examples can be found in each and every bed of civilization across the world. Even when narrowed to the scope of fermented, grain-based beverages, the process is nigh-universal. Ignoring the centuries upon centuries of brewing innovations and traditions from Asia and the Early Americas is to ignore the history of beer itself.
Many people interested in the hobby of homebrewing are often dismayed by the upfront cost. Getting a large enough kettle, fermentation buckets, airlocks, and the bare essentials, on top of ingredients, is a large, upfront investment for a curiosity; however, it doesn't have to be that way. Home fermentation can be easy and cheap, and it'll give you some room to grow into the hobby with small, incremental investments.
Upfront, I was hesitant. Those who know me know that I find honeydew to be the second worst fruit in existence; however, I was still hopeful. Oskar Blues had caught my attention a while ago with one of their most flamboyant beers: Death by King Cake. I figured that if I could trust them with the single greatest flavor to leave that state of Louisiana, I could trust them to not fuck up the taste of Melon anymore than nature already had.
If you remember, a few months ago I created a "normalized" Märzen by scraping and analyzing a few hundred recipes. This was possible because of a content format that is almost universally shared between applications that work with beer. BeerXML, which comes from the creator of BeerSmith, provides rules for everything that you might want to know about a recipe, a judging style, or even a particular step in the mashing process.
So what is the brewer to do? Give up? Well, obviously not; however, brewing has required some... unusual modifications to the brewing process. That being said, no challenge is insurmountable.
We’ve all had a hell of a year. Between the precipice of war and all-consuming maw of the plague, we’ve all had our minds occupied with other thoughts for that last few months. The mounting …
Over the years I've spent as a dungeon master, I have only had a handful of opportunities to play in a campaign on my own. Several years ago, my friend Ben had decided to try life out behind the screen, and asked me to play a character that could babysit a party of newbies. Happy to oblige, I created a prim, proper, and morally inflexible paladin by the name Arminius Wintergale.
Hot off the success of the MK III, I decided to press my engineering hubris further and further. Seeing no sun to melt my Icarian wings, I sat down to make my next adjustments to …
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