three masterpieces

I brewed a porter about 6 weeks ago and it is turning into a delicious brew (more…)

Thanks to my good friend Aaron and his donation to After 5 of a 20lb. CO2 tank, I am now kegging my homebrew (more…)

Unwound Apple Wine 

Made and designed By:
Evan Hawkins

This is the packaging for the wine I made last fall.

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Tasted the pale ale tonight, it has been in the bottle 13 days now. I was good but still needs to age longer. It is 7.4% alcohol and normally the higher the alcohol the longer the beer should age. It tastes a little sweet right now but I think as it matures the hops will become more prominent.

 The color looks good and it holds a great head, we will see about the taste.

Shane you will have to give me an unbiased opinion on Friday.

Thursday night I bottled the Pale Ale and racked the Oatmeal Nut Brown.

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Friday I brewed another batch of beer, this time I brewed a Nutty Brown Oatmeal Stout. It is very dark, I used a whole pound of roasted barley and 1/2 lb. of dark crystal malt. The original gravity was (more…)

Tonight I racked the latest batch of beer, it is an upper gravity, pale ale. I brewed it about ten days ago and tonight I racked it to get it out of it’s own funk. The ABV for this beer is  (more…)

I brewed the next batch of After 5 beer on Thursday! It was a cold and winding day but it seems the beer came out (more…)

I finally bottled my apple wine that I brewed about 6 weeks ago. It was a very simple recipe (more…)

The flat beer is no longer flat!

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