23 Apr
Currently in ferment
27 Aug
Down the drain.
17 Aug
Piper Anise Rye
23 Jul
New Plate Chiller
10 Jul
Home brew VS Micro brew by the numbers
Is home brewing cheaper?
First some parameters for calculation sake
- One 16oz beer per day
- Brewing equipment and a kegerator $1000
- 10 gallon batch all grain middle of the road recipe $40 grains and misc consumables
- $4 local brew pub micro brew. (Store bought brands just don’t compare)
1st Year Costs
Micro brew. $4 X 365 = $1,460 per year
Home Brew $40 = 10 galons =80 beers
$40/80 beers = $.50 per beer X 365 days = $182 per year
+ $1000 Brewing equipment = $1182 for year 1
So the first year
$1460 – $1182 = $278 Savings
Subsequent years
$1460-$182 = $1278 Savings
29 May
Beernola bars?
Cooked up Lemon Tree Blond on Sunday at the Columbine church of the Ustick Brew. AKA Ustick Brewing.
The by-product of beer making is “Spent grain” which usually goes to the chickens, what they don’t eat goes to compost.
This week we went another route. Spent grains + peanuts + peanut butter + sunflower seeds + raisins = Beernola bars.
They were a hit at the memorial day BBQ potluck. We will be fine tuning this recepie
23 May
Accidental beer
21 May
Licorice squared
Yesterday at Ustick Brewing.
We have been wanting to create a licorice rye for some time.
Black Cat Licorice Rye is an all grain concoction. Tyler found a rye recipe and we cut back on hops and added 2 pounds of liquefied licorice candy. Gravity readings predict 10% alcohol or better.
CHAT NOIR The all grain process left us with an opportunity to try a second run through the grains. another 5 gallons of water through the mash gave us a low gravity around 3 (only 2% potential alcohol) so We added a quart of corn syrup. We were out of licorice. So I hit the grocery store for a bottle of anise seed and Caraway seed. and Chat Noir was born.