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 …
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Mk V: Untitled Mole Stout
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Beer, Codified
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.
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MK IV: NormAleIzed Märzen
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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MK II: Chaos Wine
In the pursuit of greatness, there are bound to be bumps in the road. As the movie National Treasure puts it, which is itself paraphrasing Thomas Edison, “I didn’t fail, I found 2,000 ways how …
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Bach(elor) Brew
As you've probably come to realize, 99.99% of our brewing is about us. After all, if we're going through the work, we had better enjoy the fruits of our labors. That being said, on the odd occasion, we do brew for our friends too. In this edition of Wall Brew, we brewed for one of my friends from way back when in high school.
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MK III: American Red Ale
This recipe is... unique. While it does appear to be the average overly-hopped American Ale, it is the product of an odd experiment. For those who know me, you already know my weird obsession with algorithmic analysis. For those that do not, buckle up.