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My Czar’s Pride Russian Imperial Stout keg blew recently, so I put my barleywine online sooner than I had originally planned. The barleywine really needs a bit more time to mature, but I always like to have a big ale on tap, so it filled a need.
For the first time, I’ll be pitching this barleywine [...]
Last weekend, we traveled to the Bay Area to tour Alcatraz on Friday and then hit the 9th Annual Microbreweries Battling Breast Cancer Brewfest at Marin Brewing, in Larkspur, on Saturday.
Friday afternoon, after a quick lunch at Pier 39, we queued up at Pier 33 to catch the ferry to Alcatraz. I was surprised [...]
It’s time to brew this year’s Blue Flame Imperial IPA. My 2008 Mark’s Big Foot Barleywine keg blew tonight, so the timing is right. I have a monster starter going on the stir plate with two vials of White Labs WLP001 California Ale and one vial of White Labs WLP002 English Ale. I started it [...]
I had three different batches to keg up today – twenty gallons total. There were 10 gallons of Colona (a clone of Corona Mexican Lager:), 5 gallons of Blue Flame Imperial IPA, and 5 gallons of Mark’s Big Foot Barleywine. Originally I hadn’t planned on kegging the Lazy Barleywine, but I took a [...]
I brewed a big ‘ole barleywine on Valentines Day this year (isn’t that romantic:).
It was the biggest beer I’ve ever brewed and came in at OG 1.134! It was like syrup when I put it in the fermentor. Obviously I was worried about the yeast’s ability to chew through the wort, but I made a huge [...]
