Rockwall Brewers Association

December 25, 2012

DIY 2 stage digital temperature controller

Looks good enough your wife won’t mind this being out in plain site! I found this on several different web sites and pieced them together in one convenient place. This controller is known on the web as the “ebay aquarium controller” it features a heating circuit for a ferm-wrap or heating blanket and a [...]

December 23, 2012

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Liquors

This is my first attempt at trying the art of liquors. I have been inspired by the great liquors of other club memembers and thought I would give it a try. Pear Liqueur 3 large pears, unpeeled, cored and cut into 1/2″ wide strips 2 whole cloves 2 whole [...]

December 16, 2012

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2012 Christmas Party

As a successful yea for the club draws to an end we all gathered to celebrate the Holiday Season. There were lots of great foods and we finally got to meet the better halves of several of the members. The club enjoyed two magnums of Anchor Brewing Christmas [...]

November 19, 2012

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Lakewood Brewery Tour

A group of 12 merry Rockwall Brewers had a great time visiting Lakewood Brewery. They had live music, a cajun food truck and of course some great beer! Thanks Lakewood for hosting and brewing such great beer.

August 18, 2012

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2012 Summer Club Brew Day

For August, 88 degrees made for a heavenly perfect summer brew day, throw in serveral great club brews on tap and brats and polish dogs on the grill and homemade pickles and pepers…well…it does not get much better… RBA Irish Red Ale Irish Red Ale Type: All Grain Date: 8/15/2012 Batch Size (fermenter): 10.50 gal [...]

August 13, 2012

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Off Flavor Sensory Training – Session 3

We have been going through a four week session on Off Flavors to aid in our Sensory Training goals for the club. Monday, July 16th – Fermentation Acetaldehyde Diacetyl Ethyl acetate Ethyl hexanoate Isoamyl acetate Hefeweizen Monday, July 30th – Raw Materials Bitter Earthy (water) Metallic (water) Grainy Isovaleric D.M.S. Geraniol Monday, August 13th – [...]

June 29, 2012

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The Beatles: Parti-Gyle to Cover English Ale Styles

I performed my second brewing experiment. I used the parti-gyle concept to attempt brewing four styles of english ales from a single grain bill. In honor of the original “fab-four”, I bestowed the name of one of the Beatles to each of the batches. The Stadard Bitter was dubbed “George”, the Special Bitter “Ringo”, the [...]

April 26, 2012

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Hop Profile

Rockwall Brewers performed their first experiment/learning session series: Hop Profiling. This was an overwhelming success in tasting hop bitterness, hop flavor and hop aroma. We also included a learning sessions on hop flavors, hop additions, hop acids and hop calculations. This was included in the Rockwall Brewers Hop Profiling Booklet. Rockwall Brewers profiled five different [...]

April 17, 2012

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Shandy Cay Gingered Ale

Well, we have a new little one on the way again, this will be our third. Virginia and I go back and forth on casual drinking while she is pregnant, but so much of the medical world sends out scary content related to it, my common sense thinking does not mount up well against it. [...]

March 16, 2012

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Brewers Bay Kolsch

I have had several great kolsch homebrews, many from Derrick Elledge. However, I have never made one myself…so the time had come…as had the heat, so it is perfect timing. Been brewing a lot lately so I have been at maximum capacity so this ended up being an interesting shifting of carboys, kegs and other [...]

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