Brew

With Drew

What's New:

New System (Finally!)

Yes, I finally have some photos and descriptions of my portable electric brew system up on line. There are lots of more photos in the Drew's World gallery section of the Members of Barleyment web site.

Check out the world famous Random Beer Name Generator!

Brewing Software

Want to try a powerful yet simple homebrew recipe calculator?  Check out StrangeBrew 1.7!  Ready to download...

Top 100??? Somehow Strange Brew with Drew got on this top 100 beer sites list... check it out and cast a vote for your fav sites!

I'm very pleased to bring back the Redneck Version of Brew with Drew!

Tours & Photos

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Tour 3
On brewing a dunkel inside, with two small pots on an electric stove. Want to get into all-grain brewing, but can't afford much equipment?  See how I do it.

Tour 2
The "cheap is good" 40-litre 3-tier all grain SuperBrewery in action. A simple approach to brewing 10 gallons of all-grain beer.

Brewing tips
Illustrated for the super cheap brewer. New counter pressure bottle filler.

Tour 1
Adventures in Brewing a Dunkle Outside During the Canadian Winter." More pictures of the "cheap is good" 3-tier system in action.

Chris' Excellent Home Floor Malting Adventure!
A few pics and step-by-step instructions for making home made malt and rauchmalt.

Creemore Springs Premium Lager clone
Check out the recipe and a few pictures. Ok, not many pictures - just a few of the grain crush / homebrew tasting session.

Articles

Split Wort of Increased Gravity (SWIG) - or how to get two beers out of one mash, as seen in the Oct.02 BYO magazine. Includes new material!

The rec.crafts.brewing mini-FAQ
Top ten questions on RCB answered!

Malting and brewing with buckwheat
Experiments with buckwheat.

Software

StrangeBrew 1.7
A a powerful yet simple recipe formulation program.

FileMaker Pro Brewing Database
Has a complete listing of Malts, Hops, Yeasts and Styles. Does all major calculations, plus batch cost / bottle cost, attenuation, and infusion mash additions.

You must have Filemaker Pro 3 or 4 for PC or Mac to use this database.

Links

Marquis de Suds web site
Calgary's Homebrew Club, site developed by yours truly, but I no longer maintain it.

CABA - Canadian Amature Homebrewing Association
I also developed this site, which is currently in the hands of master homebrewer Alan McKay.