Slacker Brew

Hello and welcome to the Slacker Brew home page. My name is Craig Hanson and I have just recently moved to Tennessee and had previously been doing a little homebrewing with my brewmaster friend Nic Templeton in Seattle. After I arrived, I had met Lindell Cagle who was interested in starting to do homebrew. This site will chronicle our adventures in homebrewing, and hopefully grow to be a good repository of knowledge about the art in general. Enjoy...

First Batch Sparge - Awesome Amber Ale

Well, Lindell and I really like the Awesome Amber Ale, so I've decided to make us another batch. Our last kegged batch was running low, and we wanted to make sure we didn't run out! I've been reading about batch sparging online and it's supposed to significantly reduce the sparge times, so I thought I'd give that a shot on this batch too.

Posted by: craig on Apr 30, 2007 - 01:26 PM Read full article: 'First Batch Sparge - Awesome Amber Ale' (396 more words)

Fourth Brew - All Grain "Rogue Chocolate Stout Clone"

After several tasting sessions at our local Flying Saucer, I convinced Craig that we should brew a Rogue Chocolate Stout . We found a clone recipe at www.tastybrew.com, but our pal Nic reformulated it a bit here.

Posted by: lindell on Mar 08, 2007 - 09:03 PM Read full article: 'Fourth Brew - All Grain "Rogue Chocolate Stout Clone"' (268 more words)

Third Brew - All Grain "Awesome Amber Ale"

Now that we had an all grain under our belt, I felt it was time to attempt to make my favorite style of beer, an amber ale. We found a recipe on TastyBrew.com for an amber ale called Awesome Amber Ale by Mike Hausenfluck. With a title like that, how can you go wrong!

Posted by: craig on Feb 23, 2007 - 03:01 PM Read full article: 'Third Brew - All Grain "Awesome Amber Ale"' (543 more words)

Brewing Simplified : Lager 101

Many home brewers look at Lagers as something approaching a mystic, confusing art of brewing left to experts and sages. While some styles like American Lager, and American Light Lager (Budweiser, Coors Light) can be very challenging for even the most advanced brewer to produce perfectly and consistently, most lager styles are brewed no different than any other beer. The only difference being fermentation and storage temperature.

Posted by: nic on Feb 19, 2007 - 04:06 PM Read full article: 'Brewing Simplified : Lager 101' (1120 more words)

Second Brew - First All Grain

I wanted to try making a porter, but couldn't find a good extract recipe for a porter, so decided it was time to try an all grain batch. I decided to make St.Chuck's Porter since it was a pretty easy all grain recipe that I had made with Nic before. I got all the instructions from Nic on which keg was used for which part and how to go about doing an all grain batch.

Posted by: grunyon on Feb 10, 2007 - 06:41 PM Read full article: 'Second Brew - First All Grain' (233 more words)

Brewing Simplified : Series Intro

Hello and welcome to the Brewing Simplified Series. In this series we will cover the basics of home brewing in a simple, easy to follow fashion. This will not be the most detailed information available, and it will leave some things out - that's ok. I do not intend to duplicate the many wonderful how-to books available. Consider these the "guick-start" instructions of home brewing. Just enough information to get you started.

Posted by: nic on Feb 08, 2007 - 05:41 PM

First Homebrew in Tennessee

Now that I had bought a house, it was time to start brewing again. This is the story of that first homebrew.

Posted by: grunyon on Feb 07, 2007 - 11:03 PM Read full article: 'First Homebrew in Tennessee' (238 more words)

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