Category Archives: Beer General

What I’m Brewing

By | December 23, 2020

  I’m taking to writing this blog post after the inspiration of conversations from a monthly RIBS meeting. My goal here is to highlight what I am working on, struggling with, successes and failures in order to hear from those with more experience in response, and maybe help those in a similar situation.    For the past… Read More »

Montel Vontavius Porter

By | December 18, 2020

Here we go with another pro-wrestling themed beerski from yours truly, and this one actually won a major award, taking the bronze in the Specialty and Smoked (which apparently includes 34A – Clone Beers) category at the 2020 Dominion Cup. Seeing as it was the first Porter I’d done, I had to name it after… Read More »

Spin the Wheel, Make a Deal

By | October 30, 2020

For those of you that are familiar with my brews, you’ve probably noticed that all of my beers are named with an old-school wrestling theme. Naturally when I thought to myself that it was high time I try and do an Oktoberfest that I should name it after the classic annual WCW pay-per-view “Halloween Havoc”.… Read More »

Gaea’s Grove

By | October 22, 2020

We’ve got a new small-batch recipe submitted by Keith McAuslan. Happy brewing! Here is a brew that was inspired by a Magic the Gathering card.Many years ago my friend and I were in a long and drawn out game. we were getting down to the last cards in our decks.The cause of the issue was… Read More »

Nineteen Diggity-Two

By | September 29, 2020

Our very own Scott had his Amber recipe sampled on the Brulosophy Podcast #151. Check out the recipe and the podcast below! Nineteen Diggity-Two | Amber Ale 6 gallon batch Grains:Mecca Grade Pelton @ 49%,Mecca Grade Lamonta @ 32%,Briess c40 @ 4%,Briess c80 @ 4%,Mecca grade Vanora @ 6%Briess Victory @ 2%,Briess c120 @ 1%,Briess… Read More »

Park Ave Tripel

By | August 26, 2020

So I have always had an affinity for Belgian Trappist Beers.  They always stood out to me with their unique flavors that set them apart from most of the beers on the commercial market.  They interested me so much that they were among the first beers I ever started to brew and they make up… Read More »

New Jack Cider

By | August 2, 2020

I had just placed an online order for 6 gallons of cider from Jaswell’s Farm in Smithfield, RI when my phone began to ring. I answered half expecting it to be one of those Microsoft Support scammers that I love messing with, but it was an employee of the farmstead calling as a courtesy to… Read More »

May 2020 Zoom Meeting

By | June 10, 2020

For our May meeting we had an awesome presentation on everyone’s favorite new quarantine hobby, sourdough bread! Master breadologist and RIBS member shows us all the ins and outs of sourdough.