Welcome to Bowline Brewing! I’ve named my homebrew adventures after my favorite knot, the bowline! I also try to name each style of beer after a knot as well.
I used to brew in 5 gallon batches every few months, and package into a two tap kegerator mini fridge. I mostly made recipes from the book: Brewing Classic Styles. I used a converted cooler mash tun to brew all grain batches.
All the batches I’ve made are listed below, with knot names in parentheses when used.
- Peach Wheat: Wheat beer using whole peaches from the palisade peach festival. (Log)
- Spruce Ale: Another recipe from the homebrew magazine, using new spruce tips from my neighbor’s tree. (Log)
- Porter (Prusik): Remake of the previous porter. (Log)
- Lime Hefe (Half hitch): This one was from the homebrew magazine, made by adding simply limeade to the brew. (Log)
- Saison (Sheepshank): Used a yeast blend from the white labs yeast vault for this. (Log)
- Cream Ale: This one was a clone of Terrapin’s Golden ale. (Log)
- English Chili Pepper Ale (Hangman’s Noose): An English blonde ale mashup, with chili peppers. For a contest at Mockery Brewing. (Log)
- Scottish Ale (Carrick Bend): First Submission to a contest. (Log)
- Smoke Ale: First time using a starter with a stir plate. Based on something I tried at the White Labs tap room. Followed the Rauchbier recipe, but used WLP003 and fermented as an ale instead of lagering. (Log)
- Red Ale (Reef Knot): First time brewing in the morning instead of afternoon/evening. I’ll try to do that again, it was enjoyable. Used the Irish red ale recipe, but with Imperial Flagship yeast (WLP001). Worked out well. (Log)
- Extra Special Bitter (Windsor): Pretty Good. (Log)
- Robust Porter (Prusik): First beer using all grain, with the brew in a bag method. The best beer I’d made yet, by a long shot. (Log)
- American Ipa: First recipe from Brewing Classic Styles. Under-fermented and not much at all like an IPA. Very sweet. (Log)
- Amber Ale: First Kegged beer! No more bottling! From the Clone book. (Log)
- Brown Ale: Moose Drool Clone from the clone book. (Log)
- Scottish Ale: (Log)
- Sweet Stout: The first brew, made with my Father and Brother. Under-carbonated. (Log)