Maine Brews

American Pale Ale (All Grain) (0)

7/13/10 •

Well, it had to come to it. After a year’s worth of style exploration, barleywines and imperial stouts, it was time to take a crack at the baseline of American craft beer: the American Pale Ale. This style has been one that I’ve put off for a while, not because I don’t like it, but [...]

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Farmhouse Ales by Phil Markowski (0)

7/10/10 •

The term “farmhouse ales” conjures up romantic mages of simple country beers brewed on self-sufficient farms as a matter of necessity. The first sentence of the introduction to Farmhouse Ales by Phil Markowski perfectly sums up most people’s approach to this style of beer, and mine too. Farmhouse ales, as far as this book goes, [...]

German Hefeweizen (All Grain) (0)

6/29/10 •

With the arrival of summer in Maine, it was time to brew a hefeweizen. I used the Wyeast Weihenstephan Weizen strain, and did my best to ferment in the mid to low 60s. This was my second wheat this year, and this brew went much better than the last one, thanks to a lengthy protein [...]

How to Brew by John Palmer (0)

6/10/10 •

I’ve been homebrewing for a while now, and as I’ve gotten more involved, I realized that not everyone got their start reading Charlie Papazian’s Joy of Homebrewing. In fact, many people did not. Many people got their start with John Palmer’s How to Brew. For those of you who don’t know, it began as an [...]

Gritty McDuff’s Ben Low on Know Your Brewer (0)

6/02/10 •

I met Ben in the basement of Gritty’s, where I found him cleaning the pub lines. You know right away that Ben is a hands-on brewer, and is involved with every part of getting the beer to Gritty’s customers. Ben was running BLC though the lines, and after flushing them, he hooked the beer back [...]