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To wit, ’tis wit wort! We brewed up a winter wit beer recipe to celebrate New Year’s Eve at home, and usher out the old year while welcoming in the new. This homebrew was a partial decoction BIAB (brew-in-a-bag) mash recipe with…
Our first batch of homemade kit wine is in the bottles! It’s an inexpensive Washington State basic kit malbec (with a few off-label tweaks)… It definitely needs some time in the bottle to age, but so far, so good. It was my…
I walk through the garden in the gathering fall, and find a last blooming Ferdinand Pichard rose and hips, a few tarrying half-ripened blackberries, pelted with pellets of icy snow on a grey November day. Beauty lingering, clinging to green, a wintery…
If you aren’t pressing your own fruit, hard cider is one of the easiest ferments for beginners, or for quickly putting bottles in your cellar. How Do You Make Hard Cider? Sterilize the juice (or not) Add pectic enzyme and a bit…
Some snapshots from my weekend witch walks with the fellas in our local haunts… Foraging a fistful of yarrow, mugwort, bergamot, crabapples and hawthorn. I’m using these foraged treasures and brewing up some meads- the photos in this post are of a…
Beer? For breakfast? Sure, when it’s biertreberbrot (spent grain bread) toast with butter and bourbon brown sugar jam, bacon, and eggs (Also, it was lunch). And here are some highlights from my first brewday with the fella (and his first ever). Feels…