Home Brewing Principles

There are a couple of things that we do with all of our home brewing that we feel make a difference in the quality of what we make.

1. Fun, fun, fun - Our primary reason for making our own beer and wine apertifs is to have fun with the process. Experiment with new ideas, and enjoy the process.

2. Water - We only brew with spring water to avoid any chemicals or additives related to tap water. We feel it makes a difference in the taste of what we make, and possibly contributes to a higher alcohol content (a guess, not fact)

3. Water Amount - We always brew our beer in 5 gallons of water. Some recipes and sites suggest adding water, but we feel that you want the grains and malt in the full 5 gallons so that none of the flavor is diluted.

4. Carboy - We always ferment in a glass carboy. We find it has the least influence on the overall flavor of the beer.

5. Tea Bag Technique - When the grains are soaking we move the bag just like you would a tea bag in a cup of water to ensure you maximize what you get from the grains

6. Bread - We make bread from the grains of our beers, and usually end up with approximately 5 loaves of fantastic tasting bread.


Friday, May 10, 2013

My New iPhone is Available

After a couple months of development, I've created my first iPhone App to help you track and rate the beer that you've tried.  As many of you know, my son and I are avid home brewers and we also like to sample a lot of different beers.  The problem is that we had trouble remembering what  we have had, where we've had it, what we thought about it, etc.  Over the last couple of weeks, I've been teaching myself how to build iPhone apps, and my first app is one that allows you to track your beer.  It's not as fancy as other apps (I'm not a UI guy), but is very functional (you can even store pictures of the beer - or as Chris Varnes found out - bitter beer faces).  In usual database geek fashion, all of the information is stored on a database on your iPhone. 

Plus, it's only $2.

If it works out well, I'm going to see about allowing users to download their information to a web site where I can post results by geography, etc.

It has been officially released in the iTunes store, and can be found at the following link.  Feel free to try it out and see what you think.

iPhone App Purchase
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