http://www.humpsbrewing.bluegosling.com Blogging a Path Through Homebrew Perdition Wed, 30 Mar 2011 02:56:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The weekend before this last one (March 20th to be precise), I cooked up my 100th original recipe/batch of Hump's brew. It finished fermenting in under a week. This past Sunday, I kegged it, and added 2.5 ounces of dry hops into the keg with it. It will still continue to ... http://www.humpsbrewing.bluegosling.com/2011/03/29/100/ It's been a long time since a real post was made to this site. So let's catch up, shall we? We Love IPAs In December, we bottled Hump's Hooch. Holy moly, it was good. Hopped with a blend of Zeus, Simcoe, and Amarillo whole leaf hops, six ounces in total, it really ... http://www.humpsbrewing.bluegosling.com/2011/03/16/peachin/ The brew dog, Miles, shows his face frequently here. He's the dog on the labels. Like a chameleon, he changes the color of this fur and skin (nose) to imitate the color of the beer he's representing. For his latest photo shoot, the label of a big ol' Scottish-style beer, he ... http://www.humpsbrewing.bluegosling.com/2010/12/19/miles-the-method-actor/ Another face-off between Hump's Fat Bastard ale and one of its Wee Heavy rivals. The Champ The Challenger The contrast between this latest opponent and the last one (McRogue) couldn't be sharper. McRogue was so chocolatey and rich that it made Fat Bastard look fruity by comparison. Old Chub is the opposite. It ... http://www.humpsbrewing.bluegosling.com/2010/12/17/heavyweightoverweight-champion/ Tonight's main event pits our own latest brew, Hump's Fat Bastard, against a potential competitor: Rogue's McRogue Scotch Ale. In this corner, the champion, standing at 8% alcohol by volume, made with seven types of malts and a single hop variety, is the Fat Bastard (with a hefty 1.034 finishing gravity ... http://www.humpsbrewing.bluegosling.com/2010/12/13/warp-speed-mr-scott/ Wow! Two blog posts inside of a week? I know, crazy... Title Bout Hump's Naughty Monk Ales On the left, with visibly greater carbonation (though about the same level of head retention), we present the draught version of Hump's Naughty Monk Ale. And, on the right is the bottle-conditioned version of the same ... http://www.humpsbrewing.bluegosling.com/2010/11/07/naughty-monk/ Wheat Beers It has been quite some time since we wrote an actual blog post. And even longer since we last participated in The Session. This month's session is all about Wheat Beers. This should be a good subject since I've just put a homebrewed wheat beer on tap recently and ... http://www.humpsbrewing.bluegosling.com/2010/11/05/gotta-eat-your-wheaties/ NHC 2010, Here We Come! Two of our beers are entering the final round of judging in the National Homebrew Competition. Hump's Back-Breaking Brown scored 41 points in the first round and netted us a gold certificate. It also got 2nd place in the Specialty category - which means we got a ... http://www.humpsbrewing.bluegosling.com/2010/05/21/entering-the-final-round/ It's been a long time since I posted, so here's a novella for your Friday morning. (Okay, okay - I posted a couple of entries just a month ago. But it feels like longer since I have so much to share!) Burton Baton I just drank a new bottle of Dogfish Head ... http://www.humpsbrewing.bluegosling.com/2010/04/08/makin-mo-beer/ Old Humperdink Several weeks ago, Malin and I did a side-by-side tasting of my recent home-made Old Humperdink Barley Wine against Sierra Nevada's Bigfoot (2010). Both beers are very similar in color and clarity. In this photo, Bigfoot is the one on the right - with the bigger foam. Both beers are ... http://www.humpsbrewing.bluegosling.com/2010/03/05/catching-up/