Believe it or not, there’s actually a technique to opening a bag of malt. One that doesn’t involve utility knives, blood or cursing. Really! Opening the malt sack correctly leaves it less prone to spilling since more of the bag remains intact. You also won’t end up with a bunch of loose threads and plastic [...]
October 2009
Mashed in on an big Irish red – need something to go on the nitro faucet # Apparently I'm ill-prepared to brew today. Dead drill batteries, had to mill by hand. Now no Whirlfloc /sadface # @topfermented Nice work. The site looks great! in reply to topfermented # @Geistbear I've got one homebrew ESB, but [...]
Home from another stellar Charlotte Oktoberfest. Our club went through about 22 kegs of homebrew! # Sweet. More local beer at RBC center: http://bit.ly/TLUQS # Hrm, I haven't brewed in almost a month. I think that needs to be fixed… # @BlockHeadBrew @zy1125 no idea yet. Maybe re-brew some of the stuff I gave away [...]
This beer was a big hit at the recent Charlotte Oktoberfest. I came home with an empty keg – which is either good or bad depending on how you want to look at it. I’m glad everyone enjoyed the beer, but it had a couple of minor flaws. So I was happy I didn’t have [...]
Done cleaning the kegerator. Now time to drink some fine ales from it and watch the rest of the football game. # @audragmarotta That'd be Randall the Enamel Animal. but I'm sure I was too slow. in reply to audragmarotta # @zy1125 Great to meet you in person finally. Glad you liked the beers. We'll [...]
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Hi there! My name is Jimmy VerVaecke and I’m a brewer. I discovered brewing in 2004 and have been hooked ever since.
My beer has won numerous awards, including one at the National level. 