Category: Big Beer Year

Big Beer Year #2: Flanders Brown from Brewing Classic Styles

Post author By Garrick van Buren
Post date January 27, 2013
Categories In Beer, Big Beer Year
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The second beer of the Big Beer Year is Jamil Zainascheff’s Flanders Brown in as described in his book Brewing Classic Styles. Well mostly. I made a couple malt substitutions based on availability and quantity tweaks to get closer to the numbers he specifies in the book. On the process side, inspired by my torn […]

Brew Day for the 2012 Hop Clearance

Post author By Garrick van Buren
Post date January 7, 2013
Categories In Beer, Big Beer Year
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Today was brew day for the 2012 Hop Clearance and it could have gone much better. I forgot to put the false bottom in the brew pot (that’s step 1, even before turning on the burner). So, the weight of 19 pounds of grain and the heat from the bottom of the brew pot burned […]

Big Beer Year: #1 The Hop Clearance American Barleywine

One thing that beer class confirmed for me – I have a strong preference for the rich, full, maltiness of big beers. Hops I’m ambivalent about, but if a beer doesn’t have a prominent malt presence – it won’t make my Ongoing Beer List. With this in mind, I’m planning 8 beers for 2013, each […]