Crafting a Beer: Inception – Saint Remo Gruit Ale (2013)
This Saturday, March 9, Nassau Coliseum will be hosting its 7th annual Spring Craft Beer Festival. There will be over 50 brewers from Long Island and across the country in attendance pouring 2 oz....
View ArticleCrafting a Beer: Execution – Saint Remo Gruit Ale (2013)
After carefully constructing our gruit recipe and purchasing the ingredients, it was finally time to brew. Bearing copious amounts of citrus and herbs, we arrived at Franks bright and early to get...
View ArticleCrafting a Beer: Realization – Saint Remo Gruit Ale (2013)
After a long night of recipe brainstorming and an even longer day of brewing, we were coming to the home stretch with our Saint Remo Gruit. Grain had been milled, wort had been boiled, herbs and yeast...
View ArticleSpring Craft Beer Festival 2013: Until Next Year…
This past Saturday, March 9, was the 7th annual Spring Craft Beer Festival at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York. There were two sessions, 12:30 pm-4:00 pm and 5:30 pm-9:00 pm, though we arrived...
View ArticleCrafting a Beer: Aftermath – Saint Remo Gruit Ale (2013)
When we arrived at Nassau Coliseum for the Spring Craft Beer Festival around 10:30 am it was already filled with people setting up for the day ahead. We were stationed at the LIBME table along with...
View ArticleCrafting a Beer: Inception – Fünke a Mint Blueberry Kölsch (2013)
As members of B.E.E.R (Brewer’s East End Revival), we will be pouring a cask beer that we brewed with none other than Bobby Rodriguez, a seasoned and award winning home brewer. Bobby runs the club only...
View ArticleCrafting a Beer: Execution – Fünke a Mint Blueberry Kölsch (2013)
About a week after our careful recipe planning (which you should read about by clicking here), it was time to brew our Fünke a Mint Blueberry Kölsch. Well, technically we would just be brewing a kölsch...
View ArticleCrafting A Beer: Cask Time by Bobby Rodriguez (2013)
This is a first for us here at BLC. We have asked our friend and co-brewing conspirator Bobby Rodriguez to put something together on Cask Ale. The beer we made with him (Fünke a Mint Blueberry Kölsch)...
View ArticleBlue Point Cask Festival 2013: Until Next Year…
Though the Blue Point Cask Fest did not begin until 2 pm, we arrived shortly after noon to help set up (and get a first look at what the other brewers had on tap). The parking lot of Blue Point Brewery...
View ArticleBeer Loves Company + Hops is En Route to Long Island!
Well, it’s finally here…almost. The officially named Beer Loves Company + Hops is currently on it’s way to Condezllas Farm in Wading River, New York. Condzella Hops raised the funds to bring the...
View ArticleBROWN (out) – Brewing up an American Brown Ale
YOU: Hello. BLC: Hey. YOU: So you guys brewed a Brown Ale huh? You don’t often see those available. BLC: Hell yeah we brewed a Brown Ale!!! YOU: This Brown Ale was served in a cask? BLC: Yeah, cask...
View ArticleMALT-n-PEPA & WHATTA MAN-GO – Brewing up TWO Wheat Beers
Recently we here at BLC brewed two wheat beers for the American Homebrewers Association’s 35th Annual National Homebrewers Conference. These takes on the wheat/hefeweizen style/s were crafted with our...
View ArticleHomebrewing a Stout + Saison
Kevin is a saison man. Alicia is a stout lady. Though both have been known to stray from these styles and enjoy the wide spectrum that craft beer has to offer, they always come back to their tried and...
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