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Translation: Fire Breath Beer… a.k.a. Bowsers’s Mexican Lager. Bowser is blowing up Cinco De Mayo by adding a little spice to Tanooki’s Mexican Lager. This recipe is the same as Cerveza De La Cola De Mapache, as we split it and added some heat. This lager was brewed at the Hopping Grape birthday celebration for Keith Brooks and will be entered into the Cinco De Mayo homebrew competition hosted by Galveston Bay Brewing… we didn’t win, but we had fun brewing! Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.041 Original Gravity: 1.051 Final Gravity: Currently Fermenting ABV: 1.016                         Read More →

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The Bakfish Homebrew Club’s 2nd attempt at an experimental beer. This time, it is a Mexican Beer that is not a traditional Mexican Beer. You must attempt to think outside the box, and the delivery date is Cinco De Mayo! So we’re brewing our first SMASH beer and cheating while doing it. For those who have never heard of a SMASH, it stands for “Single Malt” and “Single Hop.” The purpose of a smash is to highlight the one hop and grain combination and not overly complicate a recipe. For this brew, we are using American Pale Ale grain and Azacca hops. But here isRead More →

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Little Mac is about to attack with this graham cracker vanilla porter. This completely custom built recipe hopes to provide a full bodied porter with a sweet backend. 11 gallon batch. We are pretty sure Soda Popinski would pick up this bottle if it was available to him. Original Gravity: 1.060 Final Gravity: 1.011 ABV: 6.4%                                                                                       Read More →

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In: 2020 - 80's Television, Competition Entries

Kentucky common beer is a once-popular style of ale from the area in and around Louisville, Kentucky from the 1850s until Prohibition. This style is rarely brewed commercially today. It was also locally known as dark cream common beer, cream beer or common beer. The beer was top-fermented and was krausened up to 10% making it quite highly carbonated. Like cream ale, it was consumed fresh, usually as draught beer. In 1913 it was estimated that 80% of the beer consumed in Louisville was of this type. Many local breweries made only this style of beer. This particular beer was brewed as part of theRead More →

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We didn’t end up in the top two… who knows where we actually finished, but this is one of the best beers we’ve ever brewed. Unfortunately, we had carbonation issues with this beer, but we had a blast making this one. This beer celebrates, not only the best show of the 1980’s (Cheers), but also Bakfish brewing, Kris Szecsy, and the wonderful beer they’ve cranked out over the past five years. Original Gravity: 1.080 Final Gravity: 1.012 ABV: 8.9%                                                     Read More →

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Beer from breakfast cereal? Is that even possible? You bet, and this is how we did it. Ride along with Ponch and John while celebrating Bakfish brewing, Kris Szecsy, and the wonderful beer they’ve cranked out over the past five years. Original Gravity: 1.118 Final Gravity: 1.035 ABV: 10.9%                                                                                       Read More →

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Our first attempt at a white stout and it turned out perfect! We brewed this on location in the Hopping Grape parking lot as a part of their Two Year Anniversary “brew-in” competition. This was in association with the Texas Beer Refinery in Texas City. Unfortunately, the results were never judged, so we truly have no clue how this beer would have faired. That said, this was one of our most fun beers to brew start to finish, and we loved the chocolatey coffee surprise that you get hit with but are not expecting from such a light colored beer. Pre-Boil Volume: 14G Original Gravity:Read More →

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Near and dear to our heart, and still one of our favorite beers. This recipe started it all. A double dry hopped black ipa… yeah, we started with that… and we entered into the Dixie Cup… and we made it into the top ten. Go ahead, laugh it up fuzzball. Original Gravity: 1.074 Final Gravity: 1.016 ABV: 7.6%                                                                                Read More →