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Well, it’s in the bottles. And it’s pretty damn good. Granted I tasted it flat and somewhat lukewarm, but it’s got a great balance between chocolate sweetness and lavender herbalness. The chocolate plays off the roasted malt, and the lavender off the hops. Carbonation and more time in the fridge should definitely help this become [...]
To celebrate Jacky’s upcoming birthday in September, and her momentary return from Mexico (one week out of a five month trip), I’ve started a Lavender Chocolate Stout. I’ve been planning a beer with lavender for quite some time – the initial plan, and likely the next brew with Clint, was for a pale ale with [...]
This morning I finally got around to bottling Jacky’s cider, which of course went into the carboy in early December (or was it late November?). It tastes great, with a really nice tartness and a very light body. I conditioned it with piloncillo, which will hopefully add a bit of molasses character to the final [...]
I finally got around to bottling this, after brewing, what, almost two months ago? The (still not quite finished) result is pretty outstanding. Flavors are pretty basic: malt, a tiny bit of hops, and a good shot of smoky bacon. All in all it’s amazingly well balanced – nothing about it screams OMG BACON. You [...]
Yet another beer post. At least it’s something, right?
Pope of Chile Town is by far the riskiest beer I’ve done to date, and by and large it has failed. The intent was to make a super strong beer (>10%), something like an imperial pale, and flavor it with TONS of chiles. Serranos, japoneses, guajillos, [...]
This is my last brewing-related post for at least the next week. Yesterday Clint and I brewed up a seasonal barleywine which we’re hoping will be ready in time for my end-of-quals celebration on Feb. 1. If all goes to plan, it’ll be around 11-11.5% ABV. We spruced it up with molasses, orange peel, apples, [...]
Two new brews into the carboy on Sunday. Well, one brew and one straight ahead apple cider + yeast dealie. It’s my first time doing hard cider, so I really have no idea what to expect. I had initially wanted to make a hard ponche, since this’ll be ready right around Xmas and [...]
Last night at a little dinner party, William and I cracked open the last remaining bottles of our very first forays into homebrewing, from July and August of 2007. Batch #0001 was called “West Coast Pale Ale,” a HomeBrewMart starter recipe. At the time we noted the beer was very “safe,” that is to say [...]
Just about half a year since the last post, and very similar content to report. Rather odd, that.
This past weekend was the 54th annual Society for Ethnomusicology Conference, at which I presented a slightly updated version of my IASPM-US paper, albeit with a different title (“Creative Listening: Playlists, Mixtapes, and the Virtual Ethnography of [...]
This is a really nice beer. The color is a really beautiful, clear amber/red, with a very minimal, thin white head. Putting your nose in the glass gives away the 10% ABV immediately – the smell of alcohol is strong in ths one. Tasting is it a similar story. There’s a really nice, somewhat chewy [...]
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