South Bay SF Beer Week 2011 Events
San Francisco Beer Week 2011 is right around the corner. In fact, it’s a little less than 3 weeks away. The entire San Francisco Bay Area craft beer community is abuzz, and for good reason, the...
View ArticleSF Beer Week 2011 Event: Share your Wares at Wine Affairs
The second of the two events I am helping them with is the Share Your Wares People’s Choice Homebrew Competition. Here is the copy from the SF Beer Week website: Are you proud of your potion? Do you...
View Article2011 Share Your Wares Homebrew Event at Wine Affairs Recap
For 2011 SF Beer Week, I did what I could to bring interesting events down here to the South Bay. Of course there’s only so much a single person can do. So when a local business like Wine Affairs...
View ArticleHomebrew Session: Christmas Milk Stout
Ah… the holidays! Most people stress out this time of the year. There are family gatherings to plan for, meals to be cooked and, of course, presents to shop for. As my siblings and cousins start to...
View Article2011 Dickens Fair Best of Beer Competition Recap
A couple of weekends ago, I was given the privilege to judge at the Best of Show table at the Worts of Wisdom sponsored Best of Brew homebrew competition. The Best of Brew competition is a little...
View ArticleHomebrew Session: Experimental Sour Dough Ale
BetterBeerBlog friend and supporter Arie, is a breadmaker, among other things. It's not something he does for a living but for fun. Over the years he's fine-tuned his breadmaking skills and nowadays,...
View ArticleBreaking Bread: Baking Bread Using Spent Grains
Below is a bread recipe that stemmed from one of my initial ideas for utilizing spent grain to feed people. My initial thought was simply adding the milled grain to a bread recipe; basic incorporation...
View Article2012 BetterBeerBlog Hop Harvest
If you don’t already know, hops are the cone-shaped flowers of the hop plant. These flowers are more than just ornamental, they are responsible for giving the craft beers we love their distinctive...
View ArticleBreaking Bread: How to Mill your Spent Grain
So, you’ve just finished homebrewing and now you’re staring at a huge pile of spent grain wondering what do do with it. Worst case, you could just throw it away, but that would be a waste of a...
View ArticleHomebrew Session: 2012 Harvest Pale Ale
For the past several years, I’ve been growing hops in my backyard. The desire to grow hops came directly from my interest in homebrewing. It was an experiment that has literally, born fruit (or in this...
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