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kes pages home about saturday january 22 2011 simple beer pancakes in theory neither making pancakes or blogging is difficult in reality i am absurdly lazy so neither ever really gets done 2 weeks ago while visiting carolyn i decided to do something about this i made beer pancakes unfortunately it has taken me 2 weeks to get around to posting this but i guess that s better than never these pancakes are the original way that i made beer pancakes and are by far the easiest way to add beer to your breakfast i just bought some instant pancake mix and instead of adding water i add beer no one can mess this up ok so here is one way you can mess this up not having a griddle or any pans suitable for pancake making this saucepan made flipping a little more difficult than expected carolyn and i were not in either of our home kitchens and had to make due thank goodness i am a flipping master i dug my spatula in there and got it under that pancake once you can pick it up with the spatula the flipping part isn t very difficult carolyn made some nice apple wedges for the pancakes using apples sugar butter and cinnamon steps melt butter add apples cook for a bit add sugar and cinnamon do not burn at least we think that s what we did maybe next time we will take notes my plating garnishing skills leave a little to be desired but you get the idea cheers posted by beerpancakes at 8 13 pm 1 comment labels beer pancakes breakfast carolyn dream weaver wheat easy instant syrup substitute topping troegs thursday november 18 2010 deathly hallows butterbeer if you know me you know that i am a big nerd i can t wash a beer glass without thinking about surface chemistry looking at carbonation in a beer reminds me of nucleation and growth i can t be at a wedding and here this ring without thinking precious i also own an english to klingon dictionary i am a big nerd it should not surprise you that i am also a harry potter fan to get ready for the release of the next movie deathly hallows i am working on a recipe for deathly hallows butterbeer i modified a recipe that is supposedly historically accurate if its on the internet it must be true that i found here the beer i used was dead reckoning a hoppy porter from troegs i thought it fit very well with the dark tone of the book as well as the name has dead in it it is also a great beer by itself here is what i did heated up 3 bottle of the beer with the spices over medium heat cinamon ginger cloves nutmeg while that came to a boil i beat 5 egg yolks with 2 tablespoons of brown sugar and 1 tablespoon of white sugar big deviation from the original recipe but i didnt have 500 g of sugar to avoid curdling the eggs i beat them over a double boiler and slowly added in the hot beer mixture while whisking vigorously continuing to whisk i added a stick of butter small pieces at a time waiting for a piece to fully melt before adding the next the internet recipe says you can cut the beer but up to half using hot milk but i only added a little bit not sure of the exact amount i really enjoyed it a non beer drinker complained that it tasted too much like beer but i think a better cook could play with the spicing and make it better at any rate it is a good beer centered replacement for egg nog come christmas time and don t forget when ordering a butter beer say accio butterbeer posted by beerpancakes at 5 06 pm no comments labels beer butterbeer harry potter nerd recipe troegs wednesday october 20 2010 random update well i don t really write as much on here as i probably should so i am trying to fix that now since i have been slacking off on the pancake front i drink all the beer and leave none for breakfast as well as homebrewing just a lazy asshole i have had nothing really pressing to write up with nothing big going on here is a bunch of little things going on ottos pub and brewery in state college finally got their license approved and will open up the doors at the new place on monday at 11 am they are only moving slightly down the street but it s still exciting gamble mill s new brewery is getting pretty close to pouring beer apparently only 1 more hurdle to go i wrote a bit about my visit with the brewer mike here went to stoudt s microfest last weekend and had a great time tried beers from some pa breweries that i had never heard of before and also got to taste a nice variety of ipas speaking of ipas i am drinking a sly fox rt 113 ipa great beer in a can i did some research on beer glass washing and saw people rinsing with water baking soda solutions this seems to work well despite not really being a blogger i volunteered to do some blogging tweeting for some work related activities research conference and got the position that is some crazy shit i think that is about all for now but hopefully there will be more updates either like this or with a more focused themes in the future maybe i will start reviewing beers or beer places in the area who knows posted by beerpancakes at 6 58 pm no comments labels gamble mill ottos pa beer plcb random updates saturday september 18 2010 battle beer stout beerfest i didn t get to go to the great american beer festival this year but fortunately there is still beer for drinking here in pennsylvania dr tom and i decided to have a beer tasting to celebrate the beginning of fall with some stout with the variety of stout styles and places that brew stout we did two head to head tastings and one random beer just for the variety the head to head competitions pitted two chocolate stouts against one another and two imperial stouts choosing one contender from the uk and one from the us in each category we drank rogue chocolate stout vs young s double chocolate stout sam smith imperial stout vs victory storm king while at the store we wanted another beer but didnt want another head to head so we bought a sixer of dominion oak barrel stout a perfect choice since we were playing the card game dominion it s like magic the gathering yes we are nerds we started with the rogue which has a nice chocolate flavor with some pleasant bitterness dr tom described it as drinking a candy bar a strong start to this battle beer next up was the young s double chocolate a less intense chocolate and didnt have the creaminess that i was expecting it came in a normal bottle not in the nitro can that i am used to while the youngs was good the rogue was much better and the clear winner for battle imperial we started with the sam smith smokey and meaty it smelled a little like port with a bit of apple on the tongue dr tom kept saying candy apple or spiced apple something he thought was obvious in the beer but i didnt pick up on it as strongly the storm king fought back with a big kick of bitterness actually that was about all that we got from it sitting here drinking one as i type this i am tasting a lot more than bitterness but i think maybe with the 3 preceding stouts the bitterness was the only thing standing out in comparison normally i am a big fan of storm king but it just didnt match up well tonight the winner in this battle was sam smith finally we just sat and drank the dominion smooth with vanilla and oak flavors while playing dominion and discussing the beers overall for the evening dr tom ranks them as follows 1 rogue chocolate stout 2 sam smith imperial stout 3 dominion oak barrel stout 4 young s double chocolate 5 storm king i would switch the dominion with the sam smith just because i was not a big fan of the port flavors i got from the sam smith also i would move the storm king up in the rankings just because i do enjoy a nice bitter kick in the face posted by beerpancakes at 2 36 pm no comments labels battle beer beer fest dr tom stout tasting friday september 3 2010 the session so apparently there is this thing called the session or beer blogging friday where beer bloggers blog on the same topic on the same day once a month one beer blogger hosts and gives a topic and compiles links for all the posts i discovered the sessions when the beer babe announced this week s topic via twitter since the topic is all about the new kids i figured it would be the perfect first session for me the general theme of this week s topic is centered around the large spike in brewery openings in the recent years chances are there is a new brewery opening near most of us and as members of the beer community we should welcome them as it turns out there is a new brewery going in to the gamble mill restaurant in bellefonte pa this is only about 20 minutes down the road so that counts as my neighborhood i was able to get in contact with their brewer mike smith and went down to the brewery to talk with him he s a real nice guy who got his start with dogfish head and moved up to ithaca brewing company for a bit and is now back in his hometown since i started my beer drinking career with ithaca and i am also a fan of dogfish head i was pretty excited to chat with him and taste some of his beers the idea of this session was to visit a new brewery and the brewery at gamble mill is so new that they havent even started serving their beers yet part of the reason is the plcb sucks and the also had some equipment issues good news is they are on track to pour beer soon the brewery itself is tiny sorry forgot to take any pictures the fermenters are 7 barrels but they can only make 3 5 barrels of wort at a time so a beer made over two brew days right now they have 3 beers in the tanks and mike poured a taste of each this was my first taste of beer fresh from the tanks so that was pretty cool 1 golden ale this is mike s stepping stone beer for those who may be new to the whole idea of beer with flavor mike adds corn to the beer because he likes some of the flavors it adds the nose was very bready and yeasty which was nice but i am not sure if that will stick around once the beer is finished and filtered this beer wasn t my favorite but keep in mind it wasn t brewed for me 2 saison this beer is closer to something that i would order at the bar a little bit of spice and nice and refreshing nothing crazy here just a good beer i dont think it will take long for people to step from the golden ale to the saison i think anyone can enjoy this beer 3 pale ale mike prefaced pouring the beer by saying that it is a little dark to be really considered pale but with all these crazy black pale beers i dont think anyone will give him any trouble about it as soon as the beer went under my nose i knew this was a beer for me nice strong hop aroma this is a great pale ale there must be something about central pa water because now i have 3 brew pubs within a 30 minute drive with pale ales that i really like ottos and elk creek are the other 2 in addition to tasting we just chatted about beer and brewing for about an hour and i got a feeling that there is going to be some incredible stuff going on here once they get rolling mike mentioned ideas for wild fermentations barrel aging traditional cask beer and beer dinners he seems pretty excited about being a part of the community especially i m sure because he grew up around here and wants to do a lot of things also he seemed open to starting a twitter account for the brewery and there is always room on twitter for more breweries it looks like mike and the guys at gamble mill are on the path to being a great brewpub now to keep a look out for when they start pouring the beer posted by beerpancakes at 10 36 am 1 comment labels bellefonte brewer brewery food gamble mill interview local mike smith the session sunday july 25 2010 pablo s wit takes 2 and 3 ok so my summer project did not go as planned i didn t brew as much as i wanted to and i never really figured out a perfect wit recipe as a last resort i decided to do 2 beers at once the best between the two gets kegged and brought to the wedding i had 2 goals for these beers 1 the recipe needed to give the beer more body than take 1 the beer turned out a little bland and watery 2 the beer needed to have more pronounced spicing nothing extreme but noticeable since i basically ran out of time i had to brew 2 beers in one night my first double brew day surprisingly enough everything went well and both batches are fermenting away in dr tom s basement i will post the two recipes separately either later this week or this weekend just wanted to give a quick update posted by beerpancakes at 9 50 am no comments wednesday may 19 2010 belgian wit take 1 i have a project this summer i need to make a beer good enough to serve at my friend s wedding pablo his real name is kevin but i call him pablo asked me to brew one beer and he would brew another to be served at the reception we haven t discussed it in too much detail but since it will be a summer wedding his first thoughts were an ipa and a belgian wit since my first attempt at a belgian wit was not very good no one even pretended to like it i figure i should get some practice with the style i decided to start easy order a kit from northern brewer and just swap out the bitter orange peel that it comes with that stuff just looks like wood chunks for fresh orange zest the plan was to do this in a scientific manner i bought a notebook i was only going to change one thing at a time write down everything i did but while setting up for brewday i broke my hydrometer aaaahhhh now i have to do this science project with only half of my science y tools the other being my thermometer oh well even if i did take great notes and great measurements the chances of me being able to repeat it is slim at any rate this was my first all grain batch so maybe not knowing that i missed my gravity or my efficiency is only 12 is a good thing here is the recipe adapted from the directions that came with the northern brewer belgian wit kit 3 5 lb weyermann pale wheat 3 5 lb belgian pilsner 1 lb flaked oats mash schedule added 3 gallons of 163 degree water to bring to 152 degrees f ok actually the water was hotter so i had to add ice cubes to bring it down to 152 but it went to 151 then dropped to 149 while it mashed for the hour added 1 gallon of boiling water to bring it to 156 f and started to drain to the brewpot batch sparged with 1 75 gallons at 172 degrees plus some hot tap water 25 gallons at this point i am not sure if i am even doing anything right but i eventually got a pot full of wort and put in on to boil hops 60 minutes 2 oz strisselpalt 10 minutes 1 oz coriander whole 10 minutes orange zest from 5 navel oranges i pitched wyeast belgian witbeir yeast i made a starter the night before split between 2 growlers and it is currently sitting in dr tom s basement we will see posted by beerpancakes at 4 08 pm no comments labels belgian wit brewing dr tom experiment pablo wedding older posts home subscribe to posts atom blog archive 2011 1 january 1 simple beer pancakes 2010 16 november 1 october 1 september 2 july 1 may 2 april 2 march 3 february 1 january 3 2009 5 december 1 november 2 october 1 april 1 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