OK. I moved the winter ale to secondary fermentation. Bottling, next week.

#brewing #ale #beer

OK. I moved the winter ale to secondary fermentation. Bottling, next week.

#brewing #ale #beer

Saw this news in the trending feed but with a YouTube link, posting it with an actual news link:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-brewing-school-moving-9.6990921

Venerable #Chicago #brewing school moving to #Canada because it can't get international students in the US anymore. Good move! #buycanadian

And into brew fridge with blowout tube. I need to bottle all that mead in there. #homebrew #brewing #beer #alcohol

Funneled into first gallon. Had to add water. Apparently too much boiling. #beer #homebrew #brewing #alcohol

World-famous #brewing institution leaving U.S. for #Canada: “Recent regulatory changes in the U.S. have made it much more challenging for many of our #international #students, who have become the majority of our student body, to attend classes in person,” #JohnHannafan, the institute’s director of education, wrote. “This relocation of North America classroom operations to #Montreal allows us to pivot without sacrificing the student experience.” https://share.google/QS9paKk0shHX7Aloe

Some good news for Canucks!

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/world-famous-brewing-institution-leaving-us-for-canada/

#beer #brewing

The Siebel Institute is relocating to Canada. 🫨

#food #foodie #brewing

🇨🇦 I'll drink to that 🍻 Established in 1872, Siebel Institute of Technology, the oldest brewing school in the U.S., is relocating its operations from Chicago to Montreal, effective Jan 1, 2026, amid concerns about international visas. #montreal #brewing #brew #beer

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Prestigious Chicago beer brewing school relocating to Montreal amid U.S. regulatory changes | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-brewing-school-moving-9.6990921

#news #montreal #Chicago #BeerNews #brewing #beer

An unexpected report this morning that one of the few schools of craft brewing in North America is relocating from Chicago to Montréal.

Taking into account the challenges of moving to a Francophone jurisdiction in another country that itself is experiencing a reduction in the cap of international post secondary students, only underscores how untenable it was to continue the school in Chicago.

From the CBC report citing the school’s social media announcement:

‘A prestigious beer brewing school in Chicago — the oldest in the Americas — is moving to Montreal citing regulatory changes in the United States, and the relocation is drawing attention locally. . .

. . . The statement says “recent regulatory changes in the U.S. have made it much more challenging for international students, who have become the majority of the school’s student body, to attend classes in person.”

John Hannafan, the Siebel Institute's general manager, said the move allows the school to maintain educational quality while making it more accessible to international students.’

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-brewing-school-moving-9.6990921

#beer #brewing #CraftBeer #RealAle #Trade #Quebec #USEducation #USCanadaRelations #Chicago #Montréal

An overdue return to homebrewing–with an Instant Pot vibe

I had not meant to let almost two years lapse between my last batch of homebrewed beer and this Saturday night’s–but in my defense, 2024 had a lot going on. By which I mean, it included a new kitchen featuring an induction cooktop incompatible with the five-gallon pot I’d been using to brew beer since 2012.

If I’d just bought an induction-compatible pot of that size, I probably would have gotten around to homebrewing sometime last winter, but instead last spring, a friend offered to loan me the electric brewing kettle he’d had sitting around his house.

This Gigawort kettle from Minnesota-based Northern Brewer is a much more complicated beast than the metal container I’d put on a burner of the old gas cooktop. It has a digital display, a temperature sensor, computerized controls and setup instructions sufficiently complex to warrant reading the wiki in Reddit’s r/homebrewing.

Instead of doing that, I spent the next 20 months procuring beer the usual, no-kitchen-time-required way. But the imminent onset of the holiday season finally persuaded me to buy an ingredient kit and drag this contraption out of the basement.

After spending more time than I would have imagined fussing with the valve that screws into the side of the kettle, I set this to heat up 2.5 gallons of water–and realized that I was dealing with the homebrewing equivalent of the Instant Pot that’s been a mainstay of my cooking since 2018.

Much as that computerized pressure cooker does one thing and does it well, the Gigawort seems optimized for one job. After bringing the water to a steeping temperature in about 25 minutes–much faster than the old gas stove handled that task–this kettle held itself to roughly 160 degrees instead of leaving me to chase a gas burner up and down for 20 minutes.

But an Instant Pot can also have its fussy moments, and the Gigawort did too at the start of the boiling phase when it shut off with an E4 error–a result, going by some quick searching, of malt extract getting stuck or scorched to the bottom. Unplugging the device and pressing a reset button inconveniently located on its underside fixed that… after a second try.

This kettle was also more complicated to clean up, since I couldn’t dump the entire thing into the sink and instead had to wash it upside-down to keep soap and water away from the electronics in the base.

Are the results of this venture into computer-assisted homebrewing any good? The brew finished inside the recipe’s documented range of original-gravity figures, but I can’t offer a review until after a few more weeks–during which I’ll have to trust yeast to do the most important work.

#beer #brewery #brewing #electricBeerKettle #gigawort #homebrew #homebrewing #instantPot #northernBrewer #wort

Brewing an apple pie amber with spruce amber holiday ale.

#brewing #beer

Brewing an apple pie amber with spruce amber holiday ale.

#brewing #beer

https://www.gulfchannels.com/333442/ It’s Friday, Espresso is brewing, time to stay up all night listening to and looking at Sabrina Carpenter! Anyone else have the same plan? #brewing #Carpenter #celebrities #CelebritiesInLingerie #Celebs #CelebsInLingerie #Espresso #Friday #Lingerie #listening #night #Plan #Sabrina #stay #time

The fall of Rogue Brewing brings out MeFite nickmark’s story of studying under eccentric brewmaster John Maier during the early days of modern craft brewing.

https://bestof.metafilter.com/2025/11/-Industrial-Strength-Craft-Beer-Nostalgia

#beer #brewing #craftbeer #memory #intern #bestofmetafilter

“On November 15, 2025, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. celebrates 45 years of craft brewing. The brewery started in 1980 in Chico, CA…”
#craftBeer #brewing https://www.northwestbeerguide.com/home/2025-sierranevada-45years

#Brewing #KereruBigPigeon #Pilsner today. Golden, clear wort.

Fuck the Germans and their purity laws! https://youtu.be/HHDESSHVpcc?si=hWlxuoopSgzrOccj #Beer #Brewing #Ale #Unitedkingdom #BBC