January 12, 2014
Entering Your First Brewing Competition
You’ve worked your tail off brewing your beers, now that you’re going to make the leap and enter a beer or two into an upcoming competition, you need to make sure to follow the correct procedures to ensure that your beer is properly entered and stands the best chance of success and of course, accurate judging.
September 26, 2013
Dr. Frankenbeer, I presume
Being a new brewer is exciting. You open the box, and there’s this fermenter, and cans of extract, and instructions, and you can make beer! I got my start with a Mr. Beer kit my wife got me for Christmas. I was as excited as a ten-year-old getting a puppy, and I couldn’t wait to brew my first batch. I would have creative control of the beer I drank. There were so many possibilities now; so much potential for creating custom beers right in my own kitchen. My first couple of batches were done with some slight modifications. Nothing major; […]
September 17, 2013
The Therapy of Home Brewing
There are lots of hobbies out there, with their own communities, and all of them serve the same purpose. The dictionary defines a hobby as an activity “engaged in for relaxation.” So building clocks, painting landscapes, gardening, etc., are things people like to do to relax. Personally, I don’t have the patience or dexterity for building clocks, anything I paint would disappoint me,
February 20, 2013
Review: Brewing with the Demon
You would think that a review such as this would be easy to write. I mean really, these are extract beer recipes, how complex can they be? There in lays the problem, there is no complexity! There really aren’t a lot of details to discuss and talk about! The brewing is simple and it has easy to follow instructions that make the whole process quick and easy, so I could pretty much end it right here and tell you to come back once the beer has conditioned and I’ve had my first taste. BUT, I think that I can ramble […]
February 17, 2013
And the Winner is…
Please help me congratulate K9Dude as the winner of the Brew Like A Demon Give Away! K9Dude will receive a BrewDemon Signature Brewing Kit complete with everything needed to brew a batch of One Evil Pilsner! There were several really good entries into the give away and it was not an easy decision to make, but the story that Steve shared and the community’s support of him really made his entry stand out from everyone else’s! I really hope this serves as the pick-me-up that you’re hoping for Steve and helps to get you back to brewing again! You can read […]
February 1, 2013
simple guide to brewing
Beer Nong Fermentation: Making “Rot” a good thing Beer, the fermenting frontier. These are the voyages of Beer Brewers, its 2+ gallon mission to explore strange new brews, to seek out new flavors and new combinations and to boldly go where many have gone before. Welcome to the BeerBorg Information Center, you will be assimilated. Resistance is quite Futile: We have Beer. Now a few words from THE NONG. Some simple guidelines and suggestions for making tasty Beer. 1. Sanitize everything you are going to use. The last thing you want is a “goobie” attack on your beer. 2. Prep your work area and preset […]
January 26, 2013
Brew Like a Demon Give Away!
Too Late! The Give Away is over! Congratulations to K9dude. Winner of the Brew Like A Demon Give Away! Read the full announcement here The BeerBorg is very excited to give you the opportunity to Brew Like A Demon! BrewDemon has given us one of their Signature Series Brewing Kits to give away to one of our BeerBorg Social Members. All you have to do to win is (1.) Become a member of the BeerBorg Social (if your not already) and (2.) go to the Brew Like A Demon forum page and let us know why you deserve to Brew Like A Demon! […]
