As a beer blogger/reviewer I’ve had the chance to meet with many great craft brewers, one of which was Matt Brophy the senior VP of brewing at Flying Dog brewery (Frederick, Maryland). The first time that I drank Raging Bitch Belgian IPA was on tap the night that I met Matt [...]
Collaboration Home-Brewed Belgian Imperial IPA Dry-Hopping
Here my partner in brewing transfers our collaboration “Balancing Act” Belgian Imperial IPA to a secondary fermenter after putting in some hops (simcoe, sterling, and amarillo). It should condition in the secondary for 10-15 days. Gravity tests upon transferring showed a drop from 1.082 to 1.016, which is what we are [...]
Collaboration Belgian Imperial IPA Home Brew Part 1
Since I haven’t venture into buying my own home brewing equipment, I teamed up with a friend who actually lives in Seattle, WA (I live in NYC) to come up with a recipe for a Belgian IPA. We originally wanted it to be around 7% ABV, but the original gravity readings [...]
Urthel Hop It! / Belgian National Day
ollowing a visit to the American Northwest in January, 2005, Hildegard returned to Belgium enthusiastic about of the different IPA’s(Indian Pale Ale) she had tasted. With her passion for barley, yeast and especially hops, she wanted to brew an IPA of her own. It had to be special, an hommage to hops in the style [...]
