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1615 Brewing

The house smells of hops.

About Me

We're just a couple fellas making some delicious beer. Check out and subscribe to our blog to see what we're up to. Thanks for stopping by!

My Interests

Craft Brews, Home Brewing, Quality Beers, Visiting Breweries, Brewpubs, & Beer Bars

Television:

Scrubs

Books:

Brewing Up A Business by Sam Calagione

Extreme Brewing by Sam Calagione

The Brewmaster's Bible: The Gold Standard for Home Brewers by Stephen Snyder

Great Beer Guide: The World's 500 Best Beers by Michael Jackson

Beer School: Bottling Success at the Brooklyn Brewery by by Steve Hindy & Tom Potter

Heroes:

Sam Calagione, Michael Jackson, Bill Covaleski & Ron Barchet, Steve Hindy & Tom Potter, Garret Oliver

My Blog

Lotsa Beers

3/21/08 So I’m a little overdue for an update.  March has been very busy. When we’re not brewing, I’ve been getting ready for my own brewmaster’s assistant (4 weeks to go)...
Posted by 1615 Brewing on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:38:00 PST

Double IPA

2/10/08 We brewed a Double IPA on Sunday.  We've managed to "mess up" the past two attempts at this, both times getting very drinkable brews, but not exactly what we were looking for.  HOPEF...
Posted by 1615 Brewing on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:50:00 PST

All Grain! ESB & Biere de Mars

January 2008 So January was a very busy month for 1615, we brewed our final beer using extract, Anniversary IPA and we have had two all grain brewing sessions.  We'll skip over the Anniversa...
Posted by 1615 Brewing on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:41:00 PST

Belgian Chocolate Stout - Bottled!

12/30/07 We bottled the Belgian Chocolate Stout today!  This one can't be ready soon enough.  The sample(s) we had today of it was excellent.  This is definitely one of our best so far....
Posted by 1615 Brewing on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:29:00 PST

Dirty Sanchez and the Bitter - a Supersized Blog from 1615

So we've had brewing sessions the past two weekends and what a shocker that I haven't gotten around to telling you about them yet.  First on the list is the Dirty Sanchez (Imperial Brown Ale), w...
Posted by 1615 Brewing on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:27:00 PST

Belgian Chocolate Stout

11/25/07 We brewed a Belgian Chocolate Stout on Sunday.  This was brewed using 2 7oz bars of Belgian Chocolate, Lactose, Styrian Goldings & Sterling Hops, & CaraMunich, Special B, Crystal...
Posted by 1615 Brewing on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 04:21:00 PST

Hop Wreath Ale

11/11/07 We brewed a Christmas Ale 2 weeks ago, 1615 Brewing's Hop Wreath Ale.  This beer is one of the more unique brews we have done.  We brewed this beer with Simcoe, Brewer's Gold, &...
Posted by 1615 Brewing on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:11:00 PST

October Beer Party

10/20/2007 (11/4/2007)   We had a beer party a few weeks ago and the pics (courtesy of Brian) were uploaded to our Pics section about 2 weeks ago and I'm finally getting the results posted. It h...
Posted by 1615 Brewing on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 05:16:00 PST

HomeSmoked

Mainly because we didn't want to pay for already smoked malt when we figured we could do it ourselves, we decided to do just that. Plus smoking our own gives us more control over the amount of sm...
Posted by 1615 Brewing on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:19:00 PST

Fresh Hop Pilsner

Sept '07 Here's the last of my procrastinated blogs (for now).  In addition to the pumpkin lager, we also brewed a Fresh Hop Pilsner in September.  We used 5 oz of fresh Sunbeam Hops in this...
Posted by 1615 Brewing on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 05:13:00 PST