Brew Brain Blog

For tonight’s beer review, I bring you my first beer from Cica’s Blue Frog Grog and Grill - Red Frog Ale:

The bottle says “A generous addition of hops late in the boil and after fermentation help balance this beer’s malty profile”. These would be flavor and aroma hops, not bittering hops. This suits […]

Once again, I finished brewing well after my bedtime last night. The way the weekends have been these days, I can’t get started until around 7:00 at night. With roughly a 5 - 5.5 hour brewing session, that leads to a late night.
This brew is a Goulash Amber Ale. Basically, I […]

To the homebrewer, there is nothing worse than popping the cap off a fresh bottle of beer only to find it’s a screw cap.  The bottle is unusable.  This is a travesty, and the brewer should know better.  After all, they probably started out as a homebrewer scavenging for bottles.
From now on, screw caps will […]

It’s been far too long since my last beer review. Enough goofing around! Tonight I have the pleasure of introducing the 2006 Smoked Porter from Alaskan Brewing Co.:

The temperature outside, and the fact that I turned the thermostat controller from air conditioning to heat the other night, tells me it is time to […]

Funny, a frequent referral to my blog is a search for “stopping the setting sun” on the new Stella Artois site.  Sorry, folks, I’m not sure I’m at liberty to give away trade secrets!  Now if somebody would like to trade information on those damn rain gods……..
Oh, and I still keep shoving that poor hops picker off […]