The Houston Astros are your 2022 World Series Champs! And what better alien deserves his own brew than our very own Orbit. We have also entered this beer into the Bluebonnet Brew-off to be judged in March. Original Gravity: 1.058 Final Gravity: 1.025 ABV: 4.33% Read More →
1st Place – Sweet Stout : 2023 Boot Brew Festival, Eunice Louisiana. This beer favors a porter and not a stout, but the bitterness will make it taste like a stout because of the coffee. I was torn as to what to call it. Our local brewery, Bakfish, recently started roasting their own coffee beans, so as a challenge, we decided to make coffee beers for February. I’ve enjoyed this fireside, but you must like coffee to enjoy this beer, as it is bold in coffee flavor. Note that this was a 10 gallon preboil volume that yielded just over 8 gallons at kegging withRead More →
Ok, so our Punch-Out Porter beer didn’t win a competition based on taste itself. Womp Womp. But the brew’s Little Mac label was selected out of hundreds of entries into the Brew Your Own Magazine’s (BYO.com) 26th annual beer label competition as the bronze winner! Today we received swag from BYO care of White Labs Brewing Company including FREE PUREPITCH YEAST. So it is time to brew more beer! Thanks to BYO for a fun competition. We have thoroughly enjoyed this year’s original Nintendo label theme and we look forward to revealing the new theme for 2022! It is coming quick… Update: WOOT! GrogTag, ourRead More →
Dodge a dog, hop a fence, fire a newspaper through a window, and get chased down the street by an old woman in curlers. Who didn’t like the paperboy adventure?! Let this porter take you on a journey of caramel and malt with a nice pecan finish. Check out this 1984 Nintendo Paperboy commercial. Pre-boil Gravity: 1.032 Original Gravity: 1.061 Final Gravity: 1.016 ABV:5.91% Read More →
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 →
This is an excellent base porter. We’ve tweaked it to make other great porters. It is good by itself, but it is well rounded and basically defines what a porter should be… Original Gravity: 1.055 Final Gravity: 1.016 ABV: 5.12% Read More →