Regional Manager Randy Baril and the President of the Wort Processors Brittany Burke make the trip out to Hadley, MA on a crisp autumn day to celebrate the harvest by brewing a smoked amber ale inspired by Bell’s Brewery of Kalamazoo, Michigan. This extract & specialty grain batch featured Valley Malt’s smoked triticale, munich oats,[…]
Working with any agricultural product is inherently difficult. The inputs vary year to year, field to field. The outputs are expected to meet their customer’s exacting demands. Invariably, despite the best in quality control processes, substandard products are made and sold. It is what companies do when these products are discovered in the marketplace that[…]
We’ve finally exhaused our supply of Belgian De-Bittered malt and are switching over to the new Briess® Midnight Wheat. Midnight Wheat Malt will contribute the same color characteristics as Black Malt but without the bitter, astringent, dry flavors or aftertaste. Weighing in at 550ºL, it is excellent in Black IPAs, Schwarzbiers, and other dark ales[…]
We’ve made a connection with a Stow, MA cider presser and are pleased to announce that we will be able to bring fresh-pressed cider to our Cambridge, Weymouth, and West Boylston stores on Wednesdays starting 18 September 2013. We’ll leave the blending to the presser and the decision on sulphiting or not to you! Here’s[…]
Come visit with Massachusetts’ only commercial malthouse on Saturday, 12 October 2013 at the Young Men’s Club, 183 East Street, Hadley, MA. This is a free, family-friendly event that will include live music, bounce house, rock climbing wall and much more. The Homebrew Emporium will be there to brewing with some of the fine Valley[…]
Andrew, Erik, and Randy from the Modern Homebrew Emporium in Cambridge, MA made the trek out to Four Star Farms to see their progress in bringing commercially-viable hop production back to New England. A few years ago their .75 acre pilot plot was newly established and the labor necessary to hand-pick even that small number[…]
The powers that be in Massachusetts have decreed that no sales tax will be collected this weekend, 10 & 11 August 2013. Been putting off buying a kettle? Want to get into the hobby? Save 6.25% today and tomorrow only!
The American Homebrew Association is asking homebrewers across the country to participate in a brief survey of their brewing style. Are you extract only? Brewing twice a month? Where do you see your brewing taking you? Take part today! Information like this is invaluable to the AHA as they try to get to know the[…]
In the heat of summer, any opportunity to brew is a good opportunity to brew. This past weekend, it was at the WGBH’s first Craft Beer Festival. We doubled the Pointon’s Proper recipe from this past March’s Big Brew Day to make what we’re calling Old Totbaggin’, an English-style old ale. Unlike its mild cousin,[…]
For a limited time at the Harvard Square location of John Harvard’s brewpub you can try Anticipation, a deep amber mild brewed from a recipe by Modern Homebrew’s own Randy Baril! This beer is a study in Thomas Fawcett’s Amber Malt and features roasted character that finishes remarkably dry leaving you thirsty for your next[…]
