ionia ales

Well, the stash of Bravo IPA is dwindling,  I am sad to say, but sour beers are kicking in!
At work I have some Brown Ale that sat on some lambic blend for 3-5 months, as well as a few gallons of a MAPLE SYRUP ESB experiment with CRJ, and here at home I have some [...]

I really want to write about beer again.
It’s very difficult to now though, even my brewing at home is far less frequent.
But, a friend and I did brew and ESB, but we split the wort before the  boil so we could try different hops and yeast/ ferment temps etc.
His beer is wonderful. Great Fuggles  nose [...]

Revamp, and slimming down.
I will going though links, some are down, some aren’t continuing, and some are are more interesting to me than others.
Beer notes. -
Sam Adam’s Blackberry Witbier, – Not bad at all.  But come on… Their Spring beer is already out, as is  SN’s ESB, and NB’s Mighty Arrow.
IPA’s – Boulevard is expanding [...]

I have been enjoying some wonderful hoppy brews lately.
First mention goes to the new 6pk offering from Sierra Nevada. – Torpedo IPA.
Wicked.    Great bitterness, and just enough to nuke your tongue so follow up sips seem “not THAT bitter”   The mouthfeel has the perfect balance of malt to prop up the hops, and dryness that [...]

Along with the crazy dry hopped wheat/porter that I bottled a few weeks ago, we had some Saison-Brett/IPA/Quad from Boulevard, Wisconsin Red by New Glarus, and a GREAT beer – Trader Joe’s 2008 vintage ale- Really nice.
Not a lot of notes, etc.  just enjoying some beers as always.  Titan IPA has been solid lately – [...]

A few weeks ago I brewed a dark wheat beer that was moderately hopped.
The grain bill consisted of:
5lbs maris
5lbs vienna
12 lbs pale wheat
.5 crystal 70L
.5 Roasted Barley
1 Chocolate
Hopped with Challenger and Tetnang to around 30-40 ibus.
Small dry hop with tettnang and Columbus. Has sat in primary for several weeks.
Other than [...]

Over the past few weeks I have been more of a cellarman and assistant brewer and I really enjoy it.  I have harvested and stored yeast for future beers and am winding down on the training side of brewing on the 15 barrel system.  I few things that I need to focus on is the [...]

I have begun to train on the Newlands brewing system at work .
It’s pretty amazing. It relates to homebrewing, signal flow through a tape machine into a mixer and outboard gear.  There are many valves and switches, and pumps and even more mathematical formulas goinse, I have learned that it is best to figure out [...]

I’d really like to be able to take 15 minutes each day and do a little recap.
Here’s a month’s worth in a minute or two.  So I no longer deliver to the lincoln restaurants (omaha might be in my future, and with it comes the line cleaning) but more often I have been running the [...]

Picked up a 6pk the other day.
I used to love it, but this just tasted poor, stale and bad.