Centennial Blonde

Got crazy with the cheese whiz and decided to try my hand at all-grain brewing. Found this recipe and thought I’d give it a try. Due to availability, this is what I ended up with:

7# RAHR 2-row malt
0.75# CaraFoam
0.5# Crustal 15L
0.5# German Vienna
1 package Safeale US-05
1 0z Centennial hops @8.3%
1 oz Cascade Hops [...]

Newcastle Clone

Newcaslte Nut Brown Ale is made from a blend of two different beers.  Working from this recipe as my guide, I’m attempting to do a single-batch replication using extract.

4# light dry malt extract
0.6# corn sugar
0.5# Carapils malt
0.5# Crystal malt 15L
0.5# Crystal malt 60L
0.33# Belgium Special B 180L
0.25# Chocolate malt 350L
0.5oz Target hops 11% boil for [...]

Trappist Dubbel

Second batch of beer finished up — a Belgian Trappist Dubbel (double).

Ingredients:

6 lbs Coopers Dry Malt Extract (DME)
0.5 lb corn sugar
1.5 lb (16 Fl Oz) Belgian Dark Candi Syrup — D2
1 lb Munich malted grain (1.4L)
0.5 lb Belgian aromatic malted grain (20L)
0.5 lb Belgian caramunich malted grain (50L)
0.5 lb Belgian special B (130L)
6 AAU Amarillo [...]

German Wheat Beer

Made my first attempt at brewing beer last night thanks to Valerie’s thoughtful Christmas gift of a brewing starter kit. I now have a bucket of malty goodness that’s burping CO2 at me.

She included a ready-to-brew kit for a German style hefeweizen. From what little bit I know of brewing, it’s about as [...]

Sunday Morning Buckwheat Pancakes

1/2 Cup Oat Flour (whole wheat or AP works too)
1/2 Cup Buckwheat Flour
1/2 Tspn Baking Soda
1 Tspn Baking Powder
1/2 Tspn Salt
1 TBspn Honey
1 Cup Buttermilk (or plain yogurt)
1/4 Cup Water
1 Egg, seperated
Bananas, Blueberries, nuts, as desired

In large bowl, combine all the dry ingredients [...]