Summary: Home Brew Brothers
This blog is all about home brewing, but not just home brewing, brew pubs, breweries, and the wacky and awesome people behind it all!

Well I said I would
post some pics of my new toys so here they are!
This is a nice pic of the huge pile of stuff we received. I'm so
excited to put it all to use, it's nice to have some glass carboys
so that I can actually witness the fermentation and all the other
cool stuff that goes down inside that amazing container!
I'm sure you've all seen pictures of kegs, carboys, bottles, tubes
and corks before, but hopefully you'll indulge my whims to show all
of this off!
I know that this will be enough for me to brew for a while and
hopefully be enough for me to get enough brews under my belt that I
can start entering some competitions which is really what I want to
do in the end.

Date Published: Jan 21, 2011 - 11:11 pm
The other day we got a call from our friend back in Colorado who is
getting out of the home brewing game. It sucks to see a fellow home
brewer stop but his loss is our gain! We got a screamin' deal on a
TON of new equipment. I'll post pictures of all of it later but we
should now be able to have 3 brews going at once and enough bottles
to last us for a long time! I am super excited!

Date Published: Jan 21, 2011 - 11:39 am

Today me and my wonderful wife decided to make the hour and a half
drive to Klamath Falls from Lakeview. Since Lakeview isn't exactly
the mecca of culture, brews, fine dining, or most any form of
entertainment we indulge ourselves with these trips to Klamath
about once a month in order to save our sanity and enjoy some of
the things a slightly larger town has to offer. In this case the
highlight of my day was our lunch date at the Klamath Basin Brewing
company's brew pub, The Creamery.
If only for the brew pub then the trip was WELL worth the time. We
walked in and were greeted by our extremely friendly server
Lindsay. We started things off with a tastey Crater Lake Amber Ale.
The amber ale had a light amber color as most of them do, very
clear not hazy at all, a light refreshing taste with notes of
citrus and a bit of a hoppy dry finish. It had about 1 finger of
head with light lacing throughout.
After the Amber Ale it was time for the main course. My wife went
with the pulled pork sandwich and after much deliberation I settled
on the pub steak sandwich. They were both OUT OF THIS WORLD good!
The kind of good that makes you hate all other sandwiches because
they can never live up to the splendor that is this sandwich that
has so gloriously found its way to your watering mouth and into
your soon to be full belly! But of course, talk is cheap, so I'll
show you!

After our delicious meal I finished things off with an even more
amazing brew. It was the Klamath Brewing Company's vanilla porter.
I am a really big fan of dark beers and porters fit well into that
category and this was probably one of my favorite all time porters.
It pours black with not a little bit of head that dissipates
quickly with very little lacing. It smells of sweet malts, roasted
barley, and strong on the coffee. The taste is slightly hoppy with
a lot of sweetness to balance it out, vanilla and coffee finish it
off beautifully.

This brew pub comes
highly recommend by me, so if you ever happen to find yourself
swinging through Klamath Falls Oregon, stop by and enjoy a lovely
brew, some delicious food, and some friendly staff. Everything was
so good I couldn't pass up bringing home a few bottles of their
Drop Dead Red, I'll let you know how it is when I can give it a
proper tasting, until then keep enjoying those home and micro brews
and I'll keep filling you in on my experience!

Date Published: Jan 17, 2011 - 8:02 pm