Tag: BEER & HOMEBREWING

Oops (Bretted Kolsch/IPA blend)

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Adjustable Relief Valve

I recently got my hands on an adjustable relief valve, which is a very snazzy bit of gear. Basically, you can use it to ferment beer in a keg, without having to worry about the pressure buildup: anything over 15 psi at the most is outgassed, and in fact you can set it to let out anything over 10 or 5 psi if you like. (Mine is attached to a pin lock quick disconnect, and the pressure gauge looks a little different, but it’s basically the same thing.) For fermenting in a keg, this is a massive improvement over doing it with …

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Big News!

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I apologize for the lack of activity here. I have a lot going on, between working on several writing projects (fiction and scripts alike) and trying to get some stuff done around the house. In the process, I’ve let the Blogging Ezra Pound’s Cantos project slide a bit, though I do have a post about a couple of Cantos that is almost ready to post. But in the meantime, I’ll say a bit about the busy weekend. The biggest news is that over the weekend, “The Music of Jo Hyeja” got its World Premiere at the Los Angeles H.P. Lovecraft …

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Brettanomyces, Brettanomyces…

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I didn’t mention that, along with several beery events this past weekend, like supplying the beer for a gathering of Korean SF fans, authors, and translators, and attending the wonderful IPA Jubilation event in Kyeongnidan Saturday night, I also met up with Bryan and David, a couple of local brewers, to keg the beers we brewed for the Fall Beer Festival that’s coming up at the end of September. For those guys, it was a simple kegging meetup, but I enlisted them into helping me to decide which of my beers to spike with a Brettanomyces culture. The culture is …

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Spent Grain Cooking and Baking

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So, I’ve been brewing again, which means I’ve been producing spent grains again. I don’t like to waste the grains, but disposing of them has become difficult. Until the spring, I was able to hand them over to my friend Mark, who has a worm farm and who used to sun-dry the grains to use them for worm farm bedding. However, after the Housing Office where we live decided to deem that, on the basis of the temporary (and, really, not so bad) smell outside the building, this practice was “harmful to other people.” (This is pretty laughable, given the …

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Citrachi Brewday: Wonmisan Citradelic Rebrew

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Today, I knew I had to brew something hoppy, but I wasn’t sure what at first. I have a limited number of kegs to rack beer into, and several full batches of beer to rack; while I can get away with leaving one of my Saisons on the yeast a week or two more, it’s really time I bottled my meads — a task for next week, to be sure. But I was also hoping that, just maybe, I might be able to condition up a hoppy beer for a party next weekend. Nuts, I know, giving so little time …

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