Fool Circle - Artisanal Ales

Beerhind the Music: The Hopp Mobb

Brian — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 01:49:12 +0000

Beerhind the Music: The Hopp Mobb This is our short film entry to the 2011 Dogfish Head Off-Centered Film Fest. We came in Second Place this year. Here’s a segment of a review from Austin 360, which I believe is associated with the newspaper in Austin: “But there were [...]

Sour Beers and the POPE

Brian — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 15:57:15 +0000

Couple nice little beer side trips this weekend; an excessive amount of sour beers and a visit with the POPE. On Friday Guy had invited a nice group of people, maybe 10 people, over to his house for a sour beer tasting. Now many moons ago Guy used to be a BMC kind of person, [...]

So, what’s on tap?

Brian — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 01:50:09 +0000

That’s pretty much the question whenever I have people over: So, what’s on tap? Right now there is a nice variety on tap, the California Red, Chocolate American Brown Ale, and the Pepper Sage Saison. All three are pretty good to good, so I can live with that. Sometimes we need to take risks to [...]

January IPA

Brian — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 01:53:03 +0000

It’s been a while, how have you been? Great, I’m glad you’re still thirsty for more homebrew. Today I brewed what was originally labeled as FC Hoppy IPA, which I later mentally dubbed the Hailstorm IPA, but in all honesty it’s the Son of the Stick-Icky IPA. I had written this recipe back in May [...]

S.A.W. Pale Ale

Brian — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:19:47 +0000

Today was the first time I brewed since Labor Day weekend and brewed a beer I haven’t brewed since 2007, the S.A.W. Pale Ale. The S.A.W. Pale Ale is a pale ale brewed with a combination of Simcoe, Amarillo, and Warrior hops, thus the S.A.W. abbreviation. I also use the Dogfish Head continuous hopping method [...]

2010 Dogfish Head Bocce Tournament

Brian — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:58:59 +0000

This past weekend, 09.10/11.10, was the 6th Annual Dogfish Head Intergalactic Bocce Tournament in Milton, DE and it was once again absolutely ri-dic-u-lous! Click HERE to check out all the photos from this event Click HERE to check out the ridiculous setlist from this event This was my fifth year attending the Bocce Tournament and [...]

APA with Saison Yeast

Brian — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:30:27 +0000

On Labor Day, 09.06.10, I had the opportunity to brew a batch of beer, this time it was an American Pale Ale with Saison Yeast, should be interesting. The brew day got started a little later than I had wanted, close to 12:30-1:00, but that’s OK because I didn’t really have anything else to do [...]

Pepper Sage Saison

Brian — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:32:23 +0000

So I finally got around to transferring the Saison to secondaries and I also committed to the spice addition. So as the title suggests I decided on Black Pepper and Fresh Sage for the spice additions to half of the Saison, thus a Pepper Sage Saison. I went with a quarter of an ounce of [...]

Saison and BCTC ’10

Brian — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:34:02 +0000

A little over a week ago was this years Ommegang’s Belgium Comes to Cooperstown (BCTC) and I also had an opportunity to brew a beer inspired from the event. So upon the return from BCTC I had an extra day off from work, and as long as nothing came up I was going to brew. [...]

American Brown Update

Brian — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:21:38 +0000

Not to much new going on, but I figured I’d drop as much of a load on you as I could. So this is a follow up to the American Brown Ale I brewed over Fourth of July weekend. I finally got a chance to transfer tonight. This was originally a 10 gallon batch, for [...]