One of the styles of beer that I always reach for is the Bavarian Hefeweizen. In Ontario, it’s a bit of a hit or miss product; the ones that win me over often have more of an emphasis on bananas instead of cloves. A fellow home brewer once told me that the only way they […]
I’m relatively new to the beer competition scene and have only helped out at a couple. It’s mostly been to help with sorting or getting beers out to people when I’m stewarding. Until I judged for the BecauseBeer homebrew competition I was under the impression that only BJCP judges (or people with a BJCP ID) can actually […]
I’m a student in the Niagara College Brewing Program, and one caveat with the course is there’s no dedicated time for 4 months of continuous on the job training. This was changed a year or two ago, so the program went from being two years long to sixteen straight months (with two week breaks in […]
At the end of February I started up an experimental batch of stout where I’d be trying to get some salted chocolate flavours. Overall I’d say I missed that goal, but I’m still somewhat happy with the result and I learned quite a bit into how salt will have an effect on the flavour profile […]
BYO recently published their article about calibrating your equipment and it got me thinking about how the volumetric calibrations can often leave a lot to be desired. I’ve gone and added some graduations to a couple of my smaller carboys, but have yet to get around to my larger 6.5 gallon ones. Another area that […]
Craft beer in Ontario is booming, as we have seen in major metropolitan centres like Toronto, but it’s not the only region that seeing more and more breweries popping up. Considering how I’m getting into the beer industry and had nothing better to do during reading week, I decided to check out several breweries just west of […]
V and I had been planning on putting our keggerator together for years and picked up one of the Danby fridges from Costco a while ago. Due to lack of tools and desire to actually do anything, the project languished for a really long time. After moving into our new place and losing access to […]
