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I just received a copy of "Local Breads" by Daniel Leader and have completed my first few bread recipes from them, and I must say, it's made my favorite few breads so far in my home baking career. So far I've stuck with The french and Italian side of the book, the mega-rye and wheat breads...

I know it's short notice, but any SD people up for this in downtown on Tuesday? http://www.meetup.com/Mikes-West-Coast-Hop-Head-Club/calendar/12518898/

My favorite robust porter is Tadcaster Porter, from Samuel Smith. I have been working for quite some time in duplicating that wonderful flavor of a savory pint of roasty-toasty goodness that is Taddy Porter. So without further ado, here is my transcription of tadcaster porter. Batch size is...

It's about time to brew up dry stouts for st. patty's day. So post up your fav dry stout recipes! :mug: here's what I just finished with today: 7# US 2-row 2# Flaked Barley (8oz of it toasted in a 300F oven for 15 mins) 8oz Roasted Barley 8oz UK Chocolate malt 1oz Fuggles@FWH 1oz...

7# Marris Otter 8oz Brown Malt 8oz Crystal 55L 4oz Chocolate Malt (UK) 4oz Flaked Oats (Toasted@300F for 15mins) 2oz Crystal 135L (sold under Dark British Crystal) 1.25oz EKG (5.5%)@FWH .25oz Willamette (4.5%)@30mins This beer started as an attempt to brew a brown like my favorite brown to...

So I've just gotten to my water report for my city. (http://www.sandiego.gov/water/quality/pdf/tbl6.pdf) I get these important ones for brewing out of that: (I'm averaging between the second and third treatment plant, because I'm in a gray area between the two's zones of influence) Ca++...

So with all this talk of cream ale, and summer being pretty much here (upper 90's yesterday) I was sipping on dude's pub ale and a thought came to me, English cream ale? why not! this would be my first attempt at a light hybrid style beer so I was wondering if anyone would chime in on the...

Ever since my last trip to the UK, I have fallen in love with a good dry English cider. It has become my goal ever sense to re-create a English-style cider using store-bought materials. After adding different forms of tannin and acid, using all sorts of ale yeasts to ferment the juice, and I...

The Lost Abbey 2nd Annual Lost Abbey Carnevale Masquerade Ball Anyone from the area coming? (or not in the area as well) Should prove to be a good time, with good beer and food.

Ok, so mulling abound the internet when not in work, and I stumble across this little guy: Wikipedia Names Your Band [PIC] Which quite successfully makes a band/album title/album art combo that works quite well most of the time, and is especally entertaining if you are a few pints in if you...

So I saw this little tool: KotMF: Random Recipe Generator from a post by revvy and decided to plug something into Beersmith when the recipe that came up was "Honey Stout with Scottish yeast" and was intrigued. here's what I came up with, I've been meaning to do a stout soon anyway..Comments...

Coldplay Sued For Plagiarism What do you all think? yes/no? Here's samples from each song: Satriani - If I could Fly: YouTube - Joe Satriani - If I Could Fly Coldplay - Viva la vida: YouTube - Coldplay - Viva La Vida And some musical analysis: YouTube - Did Coldplay copy Joe...

Ok, I know what you're thinking... A friend of mine is having a birthday coming up and she is a bit of a harry potter nut (at this age, yeah, I know, it's unhealthy). So I thought, why not make something that's related to this series. well, as a brewer, some homebrew make total sense, and so...

So SWMBO loves a good belgian wit, but also likes the dark fruit and roastyness in darker beers, and I was wondering if a Dunkle modified to be more like a dark wit would be good, I was thinking something along these lines: 5.5 gallon: 1.75# Pale malt (Bel) 6# Wheat Malt (US) 2.5# Munich...

So I was thinking what styles would work well to turn into a braggot, and considering what materials I had at the house for an impromptu brew day, and thought of it, what about an ESB done as a braggot? the obsticals in this brew are mouth-feel, head, and malty-ness, so I opened up brewsmith...

So I just did my first all-grain last night (little stovetop 1 gallon) everything went well, hit my OG mark, starch conversion, etc. I pitched last night at 1:00am, and by the morning it's bubbling away quick quickly, but has absolutely no krausen on top. The yeast I used was Nottingham, which...

So here's my quick label for my Ballista Cyser. The idea was to invoke some old-school gaming geekyness, and mix the pixel-art with a nice, slick and minimal presentation. 5 points to the person who knows what game the Ballista is from.

So I was thinking how to do a sweet hydromel, which is a low-gravity mead. Usually these turn out bone-dry, as they are sometimes as low as 1.050 OG. So with much musing I figured on doing an experiment; Make a 3-gallon batch of sack strength sweet mead, age it for 9 months or so, then put it...

yes yes, it's a Dune reference. The idea behind this recipe is to make a spiced ale for Christmas and Halloween time, but to have a delightfully geeky theme. the basis is an irish red, but emphasis is put on spicyness, and as such some wheat and a wheat yeast is used, this is not meant to be...

So after much pondering, talking on the chat with people about it, and fruitlessly searching online for an alcoholic ginger beer recipe, such as how it traditionally was brewed, I just decided to throw together a recipe, and will be tweaking and making many 1 gal batches of Ginger Beer until I...