Today we bottled our Black Coffee IPA. The goal was to make a reasonably hoppy English style IPA with mid range IBUs from hops but enhance the bittersweet balance with the use of a range of dark roasted crystal malts. We wanted to avoid any over roasted or burnt flavors. We also wanted a good [...]
Beer Tasting – El Salvador – Sweet Nelly Belgian – Home Brew
This is a series of beer reviews and beer tastings of every cerveza available in El Salvador. From the national brands, the local imports and the European imports. We will be working through every beer type in the country. Including any home brew beers We can find including our own. This beer was brewed on [...]
Brewing Cerveza Artesenal – El Salvador Home-Brew
The Cerveza Artesenal brewing process is getting easier, faster and better on our Pilot Brewhouse. Yesterday we brewed our second Rye based beer on our Pilot brewhouse system. The first one was our first beer we brewed on our new brew house system. We learned a lot doing that brew and made lots of mistakes [...]
What is Craft Beer? (and why does it taste so good!)
A craft brewer is small, independent, and traditional. (Excerpted from Craftbeer.com) The Brewers Association created the definition of what a craft brewer is so the organization could provide statistics on a growing beer industry segment consisting of the majority of the breweries in the US. A craft brewer is small, independent and traditional. Small: Annual [...]
Beer Tasting – El Salvador -Asahi Select
This is a series of beer reviews and beer tastings of every cerveza available in El Salvador. From the national brands, the local imports and the European imports. We will be working through every beer type in the country. Including any home brew beers We can find including our own. Asahi is a large Japanese [...]
Home-Brew in El Salvador – Get ‘er Done!
The challenges of brewing beer in a small country like El Salvador are myriad. There is absolutely zero home-brew support here yet. Everything we have we either brought here or built ourselves. One of our goals is to change that and build a rabid Home-Brew beer and home coffee market here in Central America. It [...]
Beer Friendly – Great Beer is Coming to El Salvador
Over the past few weeks we have had the privilege of meeting some amazingly cool people here in El Salvador. And better yet they are beer people. And even better is that they are actively working to bring great beer to El Salvador! The El Salvador Craft Beer scene is heating up and getting awesome! [...]
