So holiday time rolls around, and parties are a plenty. I had to come up with a new luncheon treat to bring to work, and I wanted to use my own homebrew in it somehow. After some research I found this recipe. Perfect! It uses beer, chocolate chips, bacon (everybody loves bacon, right?!?), and cayenne pepper. As with most things, I had to do some modifications to make it my own and work with what I had at home, so here is what I came up with.
So for the second year in a row, I home brew beer brined a turkey. I learned a few things from last year, and put them towards my quest of a GREAT turkey dinner. This year I made some major improvements in the finished product, but I am still working on it. The bacon homebrew brined turkey experiment of 2016 was off and running!
Have you ever paid attention to any of those” suggested posts” on Facebook? More often than not, I just swing right by. One did catch my attention though, it was for the Bouncer. I am glad I took the time to really check it out, and contact Tim and Doug about what looked to be a really cool product. Homebrewing is filled with gadgets, and guys find really cool ways to to fix problems we run into. The Bouncer and the Bouncer MD solve all sorts of floating issues! It is two different beer inline filters that accomplish great things! So here is my product review of the Bouncer and Bouncer MD home brew beer inline filters. If you want the cliff notes, the answer is yes….go buy it….you won’t be disappointed. Oh wait, you want more details? Read those below.
So I harvested a full five gallon bucket of wet hops from my garden, and I mean a FULL bucket. With the harvesting all that Nugget hops, it was time to make another SMaSH beer. This time I decided to make two variants, one with light malt and one with dark malt. Last year, I made SMaSHing Nuggets. This year, I modified the recipe a little bit, and created SMaSHing Nuggets 2.
When I went out and harvested, I barely got much off the plant from the inside parts of the two bines. I recklessly went through and pulled out handfuls of whole hops, from all over the bines. In less than an hour I had filled a 5 gallon bucket and still left a bunch of the plants. So, I had pounds of hops to work with. Wet hop beers are a great thing to make, as the fresh flavors cannot be beat. So I started into SMaSHing Nuggets 2 just a few hours after the harvest.
Untappd Derby (2021)
Cue the bugle...On your mark… get set… go! The inaugural Untappd Derby is here. May the best style win! Follow the winner’s progress.
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