Yeast Driven
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I've been homebrewing on a regular basis since just after a certain election in 2016. Beyond beer and bread, I like to ferment hot sauces, pickles, kimchi, and even my own miso paste. You can look forward to some posts about those, too. In my blog, you'll find a lot about wines, wine tasting, types of wine and more. So, if you happen to be in the Bend area, please hit me up for a..
Yeast Driven
1y ago
Pale lager is one of homebrewing's toughest challenges, but with a few tweaks to my process I've gotten closer than ever before to replicating Europe's best.
The post Lager Lessons: On Attempting to Clone Pilsner Urquell first appeared on Yeast Driven ..read more
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1y ago
Kölsch is an unassumingly beer-flavored beer that flies under the radar—even in Germany. But when it's done well, it's one of my favorite styles.
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1y ago
For the second beer at my wedding, we cooked up something with a little more depth and broad appeal than an IPA: a red ale bursting with berry-forward Mosaic.
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1y ago
The first beer at my wedding had to be light and crushable, and it had to go with the Vietnamese-inspired dinner menu. Yep, it could only be a rice lager.
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1y ago
There are few craft beers as iconic as Bell's Two Hearted Ale. That makes it as good a homebrew cloning challenge as any. Here's how I fared.
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1y ago
Three years from brewing, this decadent coconut-vanilla barrel-aged stout remains my Everest.
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1y ago
My lager education continues with the easy-to-describe, hard-to-perfect schwarzbier. It's just a "black beer!" How hard could it really be?
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1y ago
I don't love amber ales. But I do love fresh hop beers. Could a fresh hop amber ale with homegrown Cashmere help me love this boring-ass style?
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1y ago
When the leaves start to turn and there's a nip in the air, there's only one beer that's seasonally appropriate: German festbier. Here's my take on a classic.
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Yeast Driven
1y ago
For my 100th brew, I tackled a style I'd always been a little afraid of, worked on my patience, and found that there's always more to learn in this hobby.
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