Matt Chrispen | Accidentalis Brewery. Overly serious home brewer sharing long-form articles on beer, mead, and gear. Passionate about historical and modern techniques and systems. Documenting the ongoing journey to mastering craft from my garage.
Rambling
A simple tasting description: Tastes like a saison... lots of spice and phenolics. Orange and other spices are in the background. Mouthfeel is light to medium. Love the foam and the spritzy finish. This is a fairly classic saison and sessionable with just a little alcohol at 6%. I think
Brewer's Notes
In the last post, Building a Recipe: Saison, I went through some of my thought processes and research in building a new recipe. Something I didn't cover was the source for a recipe, and that varies greatly. A great place to start is Brewing Classic Styles, Zymurgy or
Process
I am on a saison kick… maybe more like a saison obsession - they taste like summ and it has been cold this winter. I thought I might do some “rambling” and exploration here about saisons and water profiles, since there seems to be some confusion relative to what is
Rambling
I finally got around to making a couple of labels. I cheated and used photos - despite my intent to break out pens and paint. Just ran out of time. I like the general designs - and the changing logo colors to match the themes.
Rambling
On the AHA forum, Denny Conn posted this link to a sobering article.It really got me thinking. I have 4-5 batchs of strong beer in my pipeline at any given time. I am the only drinker in the house - and while I give a lot of it away.
Brew-Magic
Remember somewhere I posted that I liked shiny things? I do, very much, but I also like being lazy and letting PBW and Sani-Clean do most of the work for me. I have spent a lot of afternoons at the local brewery drooling as they did a simple CIP of
Brew-Magic
Pumping can be either the most glorious or most heinous activity on a RIMS system. Lot's of things can go wrong, but it is so convenient and wonderful when it all goes right. The Brew Magic™ system is extremely well made, but the pumping system brings all of
Rambling
Forgive the construction. Decided to reorganize some of the site to make it more useful, and will try to add some drop down menus for the bits like recipes, series posts, etc. One of the cooler things is that I can now post recipes in BeerXML format. This will make
Rambling
I think it is good once and a while to be humbled... and today, well, is one that I would rather forget. Ok not good to be humbled... maybe good to tell the tale? I fill my HLT directly from the R/O filter, and somehow, got distracted while measuring
Brewer's Notes
Returning briefly to water, I thought a nod toward a simple approach that yields good results is to take a direct look at AJ deLange's A Brewing Water Chemistry Primer on homebrewtalk.com. This makes fairly straightforward recommendations with a few "exceptions" that I will paraphrase
Rambling
Not sure what I was thinking about dual tasting notes of such widely varying beers. First is the Tripel Triple, a very malty tripel brewed with mexican piloncillo sugar that added a very nice touch. Second is the House APA - my house calibration American Pale Ale, brewed with high
Brewer's Notes
Rather than revisit the past, despite a rather disappointing and very annoyed viewing of The Hobbit 2 (if you have to ask, you will never understand), I thought this space is better spent looking forward to 2014. Seriously, what was Peter Jackson thinking?I do have some goals, but not