During the winter months in Vermont and New England we all seem to look forward to citrus season. The weather is cold and the flu and colds are rampant. We all want a little bit of something th...
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Every year around the beginning of the new year I do a thorough cleaning and inventory of my "brewery". I usually find random grain and hops that I haven't used yet and that are getting close t...
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Being in Vermont we have basically 3 seasons not 4 like other states. The cold comes in October and doesn't really leave until late March. Then "mud" season lasts a couple months and is usually...
http://hopsandhopes.blogspot.com/2012/12/smoked-porter-with-vanilla-chocolate.html
When planning a brew I often look at who is going to imbibe with me. We often have people over for dinner and to hang out and with my two tap kegerator, have a couple beers. I cannot get away f...
http://hopsandhopes.blogspot.com/2012/11/blonde-redhead-blonde-of-different-color.html
Sometimes when I am coming up with beer recipes I don't end up brewing them for months or even years. A couple summers ago I was throwing around the idea of opposite styles in one beer. By that...
In my brewing setup my mash-tun's capacity is around 24 pounds of grain when I mash in relatively thick with a ratio of 1.5 quarts to pounds of grain. This means two things specifically. One, I...
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I always try and have a hoppy beer on draft during the summer. It is getting colder outside now but I still crave hops so I am going forward with brewing this beer. I had an idea to make a hoppy ...
http://hopsandhopes.blogspot.com/2012/10/hoppy-agave-wheat.html
Saisons were originally brewed to quench the thirst of working farmhands first and foremost. Meeting certain flavors or styles were probably never a thought in the original brewers head. Accordin...
http://hopsandhopes.blogspot.com/2012/09/harvest-saison-raspberry-sour.html
So I have wants to create this for some time now, 3 or 4 years actually! This blog is intended to be an online expression of my currently fermenting and planning to ferment Beers, Ciders, Meads, ...
http://hopsandhopes.blogspot.com/2012/09/and-so-it-begins.html