http://www.humpsbrewing.bluegosling.com Blogging a Path Through Homebrew Perdition Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:28:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last month, my wife, my son, and I all went to Boston. I have a younger brother that lives in Cambridge, so we wanted to hang out with him as well as visit a city to which we'd never been before.I mentioned in my last post about several "beer"-related things ... http://www.humpsbrewing.bluegosling.com/2008/07/15/samuel-adams-brewhouse/ I have neglected this blog for the past month. Aye, it is only one day shy of a full month since the last time I posted 'round these parts. Life has been good over the past month. It has been very busy, but has seen a decent bit of great beer... I ... http://www.humpsbrewing.bluegosling.com/2008/07/11/fan-firkin-tastic/ There are a lot of fun and cool aspects to brewing beer. One of the most fun is creating labels. I know the labels I create are hokey, and most of the labels I make are ho-hum and formulaic: Change the color of the dog's fur and nose to resemble the color ... http://www.humpsbrewing.bluegosling.com/2008/06/12/mmmm-brains/ The other day, my brother did a search on Facebook, looking for my profile. The results were amusing. Not only there are a buttload of Joshua Humphries, but there are two with a relation to Hump's Brewing. One of them, me, is the founder and head brewer. The other has simply ... http://www.humpsbrewing.bluegosling.com/2008/06/09/humps-down-undah/ Apparently, we planted our hop plants poorly. Our new rhizomes have grown to barely 10 inches since we planted them nearly two months ago. When I asked Doug, the proprietor of the homebrew shop, he said he has specimens that have grown 12 times that in the past six weeks. ... http://www.humpsbrewing.bluegosling.com/2008/06/08/little-hop-plants/ Yesterday (Saturday, June 7th) I made my first all-grain batch of homebrew. I have not actually upgraded any of my equipment. My processes, technically, are rudimentary and imperfect. But I made a beer without adding extract. The precious liquid is fermenting now. I won't know until fermentation is complete how ... http://www.humpsbrewing.bluegosling.com/2008/06/08/all-grain-1/ Several weeks ago, my wife and I went to a beer dinner at a small, upscale market in Decatur called Fifth Earl Market. I've been meaning to write a post detailing the evening for several weeks now, but I've only just downloaded and touched up all of the photos from ... http://www.humpsbrewing.bluegosling.com/2008/06/08/st-bernardus-beer-dinner-at-fifth-earl-market/ The Taco Mac in Buckhead throws "beer dinners" quite frequently - about once every other month. Last Tuesday, April 29th, was a Lagunitas dinner. Folks from the Lagunitas brewery were there along with some special kegs that were available for the dinner: 2006 Undercover Shutdown Ale and their Farmhouse HopStoopid ... http://www.humpsbrewing.bluegosling.com/2008/05/05/lah-goo-knee-tuss/ I mentioned in a previous post that my palate has a hard time picking out the flavor of rye in rye beers. Well, the "Reeb" has changed that. I used too much. At first I wasn't sure what the odd, spicy, grainy, grassy flavor was. I thought that it was ... http://www.humpsbrewing.bluegosling.com/2008/04/19/rye-and-rhizomes/ "Reeb" and the Dunkles Hefeweissbier are currently on tap in the basement. They both turned out quite decent. The former had a beautifully bright hop character to it which has, unfortunately, diminished somewhat. But it is still a very drinkable pale ale with lots of wonderful biscuit and bread character from ... http://www.humpsbrewing.bluegosling.com/2008/04/15/on-tap-at-humps-2/