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Category Archives: Home Life
What is Gruit?
First, if I see a single comment with the statement, “I am Groot,” I’ll… I’ll… wave my fist in anger. Any sketches of a tree-like alien being will equally be… waved at.
Yesterday, I wrote a little about what beer is. Now, I’ll say something about what came before hops: gruit. Gruit, or gruut, is a term used in reference to un-hopped beers. Continue reading “What is Gruit?”
Synchronized Sleeping
I’m told that cats are common on my Twitter and Facebook feeds.
Why fight that?
This week, two of the three cats performed their most skilled exercise: synchronized sleeping.
What is Beer?
Since I’m jumping into brewing in a rather manic fashion, it seems only natural to take a moment to reflect upon what it is that I am making.
I brew beer. Lots of beer.
But what is beer?
Beer has three required ingredients. Leave one out, and you no longer have beer.Continue reading “What is Beer?”
New Year, New Challenge – Canning
There are a great many things I wish to accomplish this year. Today, while I was cleaning up the brew room to make space for more bottles of beer, I came upon a stash of mason jars and remembered one of our family goals.
Canning.Continue reading “New Year, New Challenge – Canning”
Concluding Breweekend
I’m done, and I’m spent. I committed myself to catching up on brewing tasks this weekend, and I did.
Yesterday, I filled and capped 45 bottles of my Yam-tastic Oil Change Porter. I had a sip of the uncarbonated beer and I can’t wait to have it when it’s finished!
Penny’s Pumpkin Ale
I love pumpkin beers. Sadly, most commercial pumpkin beers and ales contain cinnamon, to which I am quite allergic. So I decided to make my own, based off of a clone recipe for Brooklyn Brewery’s Post Road Pumpkin Ale in September 2014’s issue of Brew Your Own Magazine.
My recipe:
5 gallon partial-mashContinue reading “Penny’s Pumpkin Ale”
Breweekend
I had some plans for the weekend. They fell through.
So, instead, I’m going to work on catching up on my brewing back-log.
1) Bottle Penny’s Yam-Tastic Oil-Change Porter
2) Brew one or more of the following:Continue reading “Breweekend”
Thirsty Thursday – Experiments and Equipment
As I’m getting more and more into brewing, I’m finding that I’m running out of space for all my bottles of beer, cider, and mead.
This is a problem. Continue reading “Thirsty Thursday – Experiments and Equipment”
Random Cake
It started with a friend’s Facebook post. A cake. A delicious, delectable cake. I needed cake.
I texted the husband. Cake was necessary.
Penny Higgins - Storyteller • Artist • Scientist 