Summer Hefeweizen: The Happy Accident That Almost Wasn't
There’s a particular kind of optimism that comes with brewing a hefeweizen in early April. The calendar says spring, but where I am, the weather’s still making up its mind. You’re not brewing for right now — you’re brewing for the promise of warm evenings and …
Read post →Not Yet: Why I’m Leaving the Hefeweizen Alone for a Few More Days
The Summer Hefeweizen is alive. Very much alive. Maybe more alive than I strictly wanted it to be. If you read the first post on this blog, you know this batch had a dramatic opening act — a mash temperature that crashed to 138°F on a cold brew day, a frantic …
Read post →The Time I Almost Sold Beer at a Driving Range (And Why I’m Still Figuring Out What Comes Next)
I want to tell you about the best opportunity I’ve stumbled into so far, and exactly how quickly the universe reminded me that I have no idea what I’m doing. It started, as many unexpected things in life do, on a dating app. I was talking to someone I’d matche…
Read post →From One Gallon Between My Legs to Five Gallons on Tap: My Homebrewing Journey
Look, I’m not going to sit here and pretend I knew what I was doing when I started brewing. Nobody does. And honestly? That’s the entire point. It all started the way a lot of hobbies do — as a Christmas gift someone probably thought I’d try once and forget ab…
Read post →The Longest Wait: When Brew Day Doesn't Go as Planned
There's a particular kind of quiet that settles in after you pitch the yeast, seal the fermenter, and step back. On a good day — when your mash temps held steady, your gravity hit the mark, and everything flowed like you'd rehearsed it a hundred times — that q…
Read post →Save the Princess — A Fruited IPA That Taught Me a Few Things
There's something about a brew day that's been living in your head for months. You know the one — that recipe you've sketched out on napkins, tweaked in brewing software at midnight, and talked about to anyone who'd listen. For me, Save the Princess was exactl…
Read post →Tuesday's Sabbatical: A Throwback to the Batch That Stole the Party
There's something almost archaeological about digging through old brew logs. You flip past scribbled grain weights and hop schedules, and suddenly you're there again — standing over a kettle on a random Tuesday afternoon four years ago, watching the boil roll …
Read post →While the First Batch is Fermenting
I've been homebrewing for nine years now, and I've finally decided to start a blog about it. What took me so long? Honestly, the usual excuses — brew days are long enough without sitting down to write about them afterward, and I always figured the beer spoke f…
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