Brewday
Sunday 15 March 2009
Sunday, March 15, 2009
I'll be smoking and brewing up more Hellsmoke Porter today.
Yesterday, I accompanied Regina to a meeting in Riverhead of local organic farmers, as I'm interested in the possibilities of using local organic wheat (and possibly barley) as well as organic potatoes if my potato stout experiments pan out.
If anyone is interested in local organic, you might want to check out http://nofany.org/index.html (Northeast Organic Farmers Association -NY Chapter). Another good resource is Local Harvest ( http://www.localharvest.org).
I'll be smoking and brewing up more Hellsmoke Porter today.
Yesterday, I accompanied Regina to a meeting in Riverhead of local organic farmers, as I'm interested in the possibilities of using local organic wheat (and possibly barley) as well as organic potatoes if my potato stout experiments pan out.
If anyone is interested in local organic, you might want to check out http://nofany.org/index.html (Northeast Organic Farmers Association -NY Chapter). Another good resource is Local Harvest ( http://www.localharvest.org).
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Local, Local, Local
Wednesday 05 November 2008
Not
beer-related, but here is a nice slice of what
"local" is about here on Long Island.
From the Northport Farmers' Market...
For more about the Northport Farmers' Market, see Our Northport or Village of Northport
Meanwhile, back at the nanobrewery....
I'm cleaning kegs to carbonate and condition the Hellsmoke Porter. Bottling to follow shortly. I'll be sending out word of where these bottles will be available soon. I would have taken care of all this over the last weekend, but there was a delay due to the greenhouse effect. Not the global greenhouse effect, but the preparations I'm undertaking for the greenhouse we're about to build in our back yard. Leveling out the area and preparing the foundation took up the weekend. So, I'm playing hooky from the day job today (after a late night of watching election returns), and playing a bit of catchup.
From the Northport Farmers' Market...
For more about the Northport Farmers' Market, see Our Northport or Village of Northport
Meanwhile, back at the nanobrewery....
I'm cleaning kegs to carbonate and condition the Hellsmoke Porter. Bottling to follow shortly. I'll be sending out word of where these bottles will be available soon. I would have taken care of all this over the last weekend, but there was a delay due to the greenhouse effect. Not the global greenhouse effect, but the preparations I'm undertaking for the greenhouse we're about to build in our back yard. Leveling out the area and preparing the foundation took up the weekend. So, I'm playing hooky from the day job today (after a late night of watching election returns), and playing a bit of catchup.