Sheppy's Blog

Well ... as I'm typing this, I'm not 100% sure I'm done brewing in 2024, but I think I am. So ... I'll go ahead and type up ...

If you follow this blog, you know I've renewed my old BJCP Goal . Through a series of blog posts, I've discovered / acknowledged tha...

Early in 2022, I spent some time identifying " SheppyBrew Seasonals ". I tied a specific SheppyBrew beer to every month in the yea...

Well ... I was sort of planning on brewing on Sunday the 8th. I even had a yeast starter ready to go. When it came right down to it, I just ...

Sunday, I posted  SheppyBrew vs Breckenridge Autumn Ales where I compared  Breckenridge Autumn Ale  with my  Will-o'-Wisp Autumn Ale (n...

Since  2018 , which was the year I started becoming obsessed with  BBQ , I've been in charge of smoking the  Thanksgiving   turkey  outs...

If you read  Roll-a-Style 14 ... 16A. Sweet Stout , you know that Learn to Homebrew Day was the first Saturday in November. I had plans to ...

Every year since I started homebrewing (way back in 2009), I've brewed an X-Mas Ale to have around the holidays. The base beer was alwa...

So ... a couple of years ago, I spent some time identifying " SheppyBrew Seasonals ". I didn't really pay much attention to ...

So ... as I'm typing this, we still have a couple of weeks left in 2023, but I won't be brewing again this year, so I can actually r...

For various reasons, the "SheppyBrew Christmas Dinner" was on the 23rd this year. If you've been following along for awhile, y...

If you follow this blog, you know I've renewed my old BJCP Goal . Through a series of blog posts, I've discovered / acknowledged tha...

Every year since I started homebrewing (way back in 2009), I've brewed an X-Mas Ale to have around the holidays. They have all been simi...

Well ... on  Roll-a-Style 13 ... Wild Specialty Beer , I had  33A. Wood-Aged Beer on my " Roll-a-Style " list even though I knew ...

After brewing  Grumkins and Snarks Oatmeal Stout (Batch 326) and  Doodle Bop Belgium Single (batch 328) , I have successfully brewed at lea...

So ... as I'm typing this, we still have over a week left in 2022, but I won't be brewing again this year, so I can actually report ...

Earlier in the year, I published a blog post in which I talked about beers that could be considered  SheppyBrew Seasonals , attaching them t...

For Christmas,  the Beer Model's parents were in town. While watching football, I got her dad a flight of SheppyBrew beers.  While getti...

Every year since I started brewing in 2009, I've brewed a special X-Mas Ale . Every year, the beer is a similar base with some "Chr...

While out for a walk earlier in the week, I was thinking about homebrewing (surprise surprise). One of the things that popped into my mind w...