Category Archives: Homebrewing

Starter from Commercial Dregs

By Brian Glenn | Published: 2008-10-16
I am working on a starter from the settled yeast in East End Brewing’s Hefeweizen. 3 oz of DME in a quart of water, boiled for about ten minutes. The fun part is doing it in East End’s growler. I will be using this on a beer that has a lot of unusual ingredients from [...]
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No Power…

By Brian Glenn | Published: 2008-09-18
Hurricane Ike took out the power on Sunday, and Worst Energy has not yet been able to bring it back. I think I might try to use the free time to do some old school brewing. Who needs lights anyhow? I did manage to get to East End in Pittsburgh for growler hours on Saturday. [...]
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Brewing in Ithaca

By Brian Glenn | Published: 2008-09-06
I got the opportunity a couple weeks ago to teach a quick introduction to brewing to a group of my wife’s friends during a birthday party. I’ve never brewed anywhere except my own kitchen, so it was certainly a different experience. The house was on a small farm, and thanks to the industrious nature of [...]
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Disappointment and New Hope

By Brian Glenn | Published: 2008-07-27
The hops project has to be officially called a failure. My plants are about a foot tall still and have no side shoots of any kind. I guess urban backyards with lots of fences and other buildings just are not cut out for hops growing. I believe the problem to be a lack of direct [...]
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