Aqua Vitae

This brew was inspired by De Ranke XX Bitter. I knew from the entry on De Ranke in Michael Jackson’s Great Beers of Belgium that the beer was 6.2%, used all Pilsner malt, and had 65 IBUs, and so used this to base a recipe on.
In the end I went a bit hop-crazy and shot […]

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This past weekend I set out to brew a pale ale using Wyeast’s Roselare Blend (#3763). The yeast was really the catalyst for the brew - thus the reason that the malts were a combination of leftover malts from a pale ale and a wheat beer. The goal was a light-colored, medium bodied ale, using […]

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In the end, this beer could not have come out better. This was the first beer I’ve brewed that clearly showed that I’m going in the right direction - that I’ve gotten to a point of being able to brew a good beer.
The color is a hazy, very light orange. Lots of haze, with swirling […]

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All I can say is “woo-hoo”! Ever since I began to learn more about beer and explore the offerings out there, lambics and the different range of beers in that vein have really excited me. So when I began brewing with Brettanomyces it seemed like a logical next step to consider adding fruit to one […]

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