My DIY Barrel Steamer

September 26, 2016 · by · in DIY Projects · 2 Comments

My growing collection of barrels has gotten me acquainted with all kinds of various tools, treatments and techniques. One of the most useful, nearly indispensable, is the barrel steamer. Of course, I had to make my own, as the ones wineries use cost thousands of dollars. While I’m sure those professional models are well worth […]

Lambic brewing year 3, plus Lambic blending year 2 and Framboise

May 9, 2016 · by · in Beer trip, The Brews, The Lambic Project · 3 Comments

It’d been far too long since I posted an update to this blog. Apologies for that, but I’m finally getting around to writing up some of the progress in the Lambic project. I can’t believe it’s been 3 years since the first brew. Lambic project activities have become one of my favorite traditions. What could be […]

Lambic brew day, year 2, plus year 1 Lambic blending and bottling, and year 1 Kriek

March 8, 2015 · by · in Pontifications, The Brews, The Lambic Project · 3 Comments

I can hardly believe it’s been over a year since we committed our first batch of Lambic to the barrel. This time, things are a little more intense, as now we need to blend off 1 barrel the first batch of 1 year Lambic, brew Lambic for year two, AND rack off for Kriek to […]

Brouwerij Den Toetëlèr, Hoeselt, Belgium

July 19, 2014 · by · in Small Breweries of the World · Leave a comment

I was browsing around some Lambic forum discussions, when for some reason someone linked to this article. (Perhaps the Kriek beer?) Anyway, It’s an awesome small brewery. I love what they’ve done with the tile work. The place has that sparkly clean look that a lot of older German breweries have. Great use of non-standard […]

So much history in one image

July 16, 2014 · by · in General Geekery · Leave a comment

A Pilsner Urquel barrel at a Gueuzerie, the old copper tap, married to a tri-clamp fitting…

My Pressure Racking Cane

July 7, 2014 · by · in DIY Projects · 15 Comments

There’s been interest from a few people in the design of my pressure racking cane, so I decided to post it so hopefully it can be of use to others. Like many of my DIY projects this one started with simple necessity. I had a couple situations where either racking under pressure for sanitation reasons, […]

Lambic Project 6 Month Tasting

July 2, 2014 · by · in The Brews, The Lambic Project · 2 Comments

When you are involved in long ongoing beer projects, the typical situation of beers seeming to take forever to complete (even though you’re waiting at most a month), get’s turned around and things move much faster than you’re prepared for. (Hence my ridiculously late Sour Brown bottling earlier in the year) The Lambic Project is […]

8 Sail Brewery

January 22, 2014 · by · in Small Breweries of the World · Leave a comment

8 Sail is a brewery in Heckington, Lincolnshire UK, which has the most badass distinction of being sat right next to an 8 sail windmill. I can’t think of a cooler location. I’d like to think some of the energy created there helps power the brewery, but I may be romanticizing a bit. Anyway, it’s […]

Stone Mountain Brewers on Facebook

January 22, 2014 · by · in Pontifications, The Brews · Leave a comment

We’ve finally gone and done it. We’ve made our little habit and official “home-brew club”, with it’s own page and everything. We finally have a place for all of our disparate documentation to go. It’s nice to see a bunch of it in one place now, and we’ll be updating with more projects soon. So, […]

Lambic Brew Days 2 and 3

December 31, 2013 · by · in The Brews, The Lambic Project · Leave a comment

Every blog post probably shouldn’t start with how bad at blogging I am, but here goes… I have endless things I could say about this all, but the act of typing it all out, uploading photos, dealing with annoying software etc, is barrier enough to make my time between posts oscillate between, “maybe i’m do […]

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