How To Brew Beer

90 to 95% of your beer is made up of water… and if your water tastes like pond water, then your beer is likely to taste like pond water…
So assuming your water tastes good, then let’s look at how you can adjust your water to brew better beers…
There are many things you can do with [...]

(Ditch the Airlock!)

Every submariner goes through firefighter training… and because fires are possibly our biggest threats when out to sea, we had fire drills pretty much every week… so when the real fire came we’d be prepared and not freak out…
Well, I just brewed an IPA on Wednesday… had this been one of my first [...]

Two things I want to share with you today… how to add black color to your beers without the roastiness of dark malts and how to krausen your beer…
I decided to brew a Schwarzbier as my example beer…
The easiest way to get the dark, almost jet black color is to sprinkle a debittered black malt [...]

I grinned when I handed my girlfriend a regular coffee after she had asked me to get her a Quad venti skinny with whip iced caramel macchiato…
… hey… I lost her at ‘quad’ and people behind me were waiting…
“here you go hon… cream and sugar are over there… hurry, we’re running late…”
…. long story short, [...]

Every submariner who’s been on a boat for a month or two knows one thing: Who’s the next NEW guy onboard…
The new guy, who’s gotta pound the tech manuals and struggle to learn what it takes to be on a submarine…
Something about seeing someone else go through something we’ve been through calls us to take [...]