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Post Road IPA

It’s been more than a few months since our last batch – between travel to see family, travel for skiing, and travel for fun, there hasn’t been any time! So we’re easing back into it with a simple IPA.

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Ipswitch Oatmeal Stout 2

After pulling the Imperial Stout out of the barrel, I’ve been looking for something else to put in. When a friend of ours brought back some Vanilla beans from Tahiti, I figured why not use the two?

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Mapuche Pale Ale

While on vacation this summer, I purchased 16oz of Mapuche hops from Hace Cerveza, a homebrew store in Bariloche Argentina. Why Mapuche? Because it was something I had never heard of.

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Hurricane Kitty 4

In this, the 4th iteration of our Hoppy Red ale, we’re continuing to work on the recipe originally based off of a clone of Keegan Ale’s Hurricane Kitty.  This brew is being made for our neighborhood brewfest, Oaktoberfest in the Dimond. Read more

Clean-Up ESB

I made this beer in order to use up some hops we had lying around from other beers.  While it has the dubious honor of being the second recipe I made up from scratch, the goal was just to make something drinkable and in an easy English style.  In addition, I threw this together just before I left on vacation, so I could control the primary fermentation and just leave it alone for the secondary. Read more

Session IPA – Stone Session Collab. Clone

When the homebrew club announced the style of the quarter competition was a session IPA, I figured this was something we could do.  After looking around for an interesting recipe, I landed on the Stone Session Collaboration. With a $35 cost for hops alone, This should be a pretty good beer. Read more

Chinook Single-Hop

After using Chinook in a stout and really liking the aroma, I figured I’d make a single-hop IPA to see what this hop in particular could do. We found a recipe on HomeBrewTalk, and came up with this. Read more

Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout

We’ve brewed variations on the Otter Creek Stovepipe Porter clone from Beer Captured a few times. For this iteration, we’re using a Blue Corn Whiskey Barrel from Balcones!

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Saint Philip Single-Hop Saaz

A simple single-hop beer to play with Saaz hops.  Adapted from homebrewtalk.com

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Anniversary Imperial Stout (Stovepipe Porter 3)

We wanted something special to share with our friends and family for our wedding – something that we’ve never seen done before. So, we designed an imperial stout to be aged for one year, and shared on our Anniversary!

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