Chocolate Pecan Porter Bread

Ingredients -------------- 3 Cups Flour (sifted) 3 Teaspoons Baking Powder (omit if using Self-Rising Flour) 1 Teaspoon Salt (omit if using Self-Rising Flour) 1/4 Cup Brown Sugar 12 oz bottle of Chocolate Pecan Porter (or a  substitute beer) 1/4 Cup Melted Butter Directions ------------- Preheat oven to 375° Mix dry ingredients first. Once the dry ingredients are mixed, add the beer. Rinse the beer bottle with a little...

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Flemish Red

The weekend was planned to be this: brew a beer that would eventually be the first sour beer to age for ~6 months, or until flavor profile developed. Additionally, Brett and I talked about making another Mead (this time adding mulberries). In some future posts there will be detail of what this weekend turned into. Grain ------- 4.00 lbs. Belgian Pilsener3.5 lbs. American Vienna Malt3.00 lbs. Belgian Munich Malt1.00 lbs. Wheat Malt0.5 lbs. CaraMunich Malt0.5...

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Mead and Mulberry Melomel

While making beer is easy, making mead is ten times easier. Sterilize water, chill the water, add the honey, shake until homogeneous, add a pinch of yeast nutrient, pitch the yeast, shake the must. That's it. So on the week of 2/23/2015 I did enough research to feel comfortable and I made my first mead. The left is the must before pitching the yeast. The right is the must after 1 week of fermentation. The color difference in just 1 weeks is surprising.  First...

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Second Runnings Coffee Ale

Enjoying the smell in the kitchen I don't plan on this being anything special, considering that I'm not going to sour it. And I was using a sour ingredients list which only consisted of 1 oz of hop. Nonetheless, it's worth noting the procedure because of the coffee addition. After getting enough wort from the lauter for the first sour beer, I collected a little more than a gallon of second runnings. Original gravity was 1.040 SG, yet another...

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Foxy Cayenne Red

Grain -------- 8 lbs Maris Otter  1.5 lb Munich 1 lb Belgian Special B .5 lb 40L Crystal  Hops ------- .5 oz Nugget 60 min boil .5 oz Nugget 10 min boil Yeast -------- Dry pack of English Ale Yeast (warmed up in some water before adding to primary) Other Adds ---------------- 2 dry cayenne peppers - medium size, chopped, containing 5 seeds (10 min boil) 1 dry cayenne pepper - large size, chopped, containing about...

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