Lessons From the Bottom of the Barrel
The guts to admit that you royally screw things up sometimes and be open about your mistakes with your Brewmies. “Relax. Don’t worry. Have a homebrew.” I may have never needed to hear it more than I did this week.
New Public Domain Hop Breeds
The topic of the characteristics of the new public domain hop as Cashmere, Tahoma, Triple Pearl, and Yakima Gold recently popped up in the Breminaries’ forums. Here’s what Brewmie Bobby Bendily of Bitter and Esters’ had to share...
Ryes of The Brewminaries Brew Day at Rockaway Brewing Company
On March 18, The Brewminaries joined Bitter & Esters and Rockaway Brewing Company to brew our first club beer, Ryes of the Brewminaries.
Boston Brewery Tour
This past weekend I had the opportunity to head to Boston for work to visit some of the up and coming breweries in the area. The breweries on the agenda were: Jack’s Abby Brewing, Mystic Brewing, Idle Hands/Enlightenment Ales, and Nightshift Brewing.
Brew Day: Workmans Pint Porter
Barry Wasser's brew day recap for Workman's Pint Porter: I was going back and forth trying to decide what I was going to brew next. I'd already scaled up a porter recipe in BeerSmith and only needed to switch the yeast...
Shezmu Takes Second!
On March 7th, Brewminary Merlin U Ward competed in the friendly, inaugural Coney Island Homebrew Competition at Peggy O'neil's, taking second with his American Amber Ale, Shezmu
Our first post
We're excited to finally have a brew club in our part of town! What started as something of a joke ("The B&E Swap Team") quickly transformed into a serious group of homebrewers, the Brewminaries. We would have been silly to turn our backs on a great opportunity to start something we all felt we needed – a brew club in our backyard.