Good Beer at 30 cents a bottle

They say you don’t get in to homebrewing to save money on beer, but it’s totally possible. Let’s call that a bonus feature. Even expensive homebrew comes out to a little over $1.00 per bottle. Typical craft beer in the store will cost you around $8-$12 for a six pack. That’s $1.33-$2 per bottle. As …

IPA Honey Oat Homebrewed Beer Grain Bread

Throwing out those precious beer grains after barely steeping them in hot water for 20 minutes seems like such a waste and tears at my environmentalist heartstrings. So, as with many environmentally conscious brewers, I’ve taken to re-purposing those “spent grains” in various ways. An co-worked and friend, whose husband homebrews, pointed me to the …

Tilted Jaw IPA, 2nd attempt (batch 6)

I’m immeasurably more pleased with my second attempt at an IPA versus my first attempt. This batch is truly worthy of the name Tilted Jaw IPA. We’ve happily shared it with a few friends, who all seemed to enjoy it, including one particularly discerning IPA connoisseur. We brewed on September 15, 2012, 10:00 p.m. I’m …

Tilted Jaw IPA, 1st attempt (batch 4)

So, in our homebrewing “fantasy league,” the wife and I came up with a bunch of names for our craft brews … mostly named after the pets or inspired by ancient culture. Among these is what we aspire to perfect: Tilted Jaw IPA. The wife and I are both big hop heads (despite my predilection …