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What is The Homestead of Beer About?

I made my first foray into home-brewing with an all-grain kit back in 2014, with very limited success, after two batches I went into hiatus. Only to be re-awakened in 2022. Most of what you will find here, will be British (and some European) style beers done with a Canadian and British Isles slant. Using my personal tastes, along with the guidelines from the Beer Judge Certification Program as my references, I brew one gallon at a time.

What’s Brewing

• The proposed schedule.
• The schedule is anticipatory only, subject to change on a whim.

Attribution

Some of the images used are designed by OpenMoji – the open-source emoji and icon project. License: CC BY-SA 4.0

For example, the logo I created was rendered from images from the awesome OpenMoji project. The Pig-Dog sentinels have become part of my self-branding exercise.

Series Explanation

I have had various themes and/or series since I started home brewing, usually identified after the fact. I have ideas for the future. Here is a mostly chronological list of past, present, and future series to shape my brew schedule.

1. Westfort Series – basically anything I brew at home.
2. Guest Brewer – when I had somebody help me brew.
3. Brew Fail – these were fails, which leads to my next entry.
4. Redemption Series – when I needed to prove I could do it right.
5. Redux Series – this is not a brew-fail, but more like a do-over, tweak, or adjustment on a recipe.
6. Helter-Skelter Series – times I threw together any end of inventory stock, added something on account of bad planning, and smashed together whatever to make a batch happen.
7. Mountain Portage Series – brewing at the trailer.
8. Exbeeriment Series – attempt an experiment in my beer brewing experience.
9. Ryetirement Series – brewing with rye in the grainbill in the spring of 2023 to celebrate retirement.
10. IPA 2023 Series – Through 2023, I dabbled with many IPA styles.
11. Summer 2024 – mostly low ABV British style ales for the summer.
12. Co-Fermentation Series – experimentation with two different yeasts simultaneously.
13. Winter 2025 – this one came after the fact, when I realised I brewed a lot of darker British/Irish style beer.
14. Flagship Series – Working towards six beers that will always be in rotation.
15. Signature Series – Developing my recipes that will be brewed with some regularity.
16. Evolution Series 2025 – this one is still being formulated, likely to take something that originated in Europe, and brew the versions that evolved from it, particularly in the New World. Stay tuned.