I've made quite a few beers at home, but below you will find some of the more memorable ones. Of course some of the most memorable ones are ones I'd like to forget, but you won't find those here.

"Give a man a beer, he'll drink for a day. Teach a man to brew, he'll drink the rest of his life." - Anonymous

Kate and Care Belgian Style Tripel

Behind every great man is an even better women. Luther had his Kathrine and I have my Carolyn. I'm not sure, in either couple, who led whom to drink but I do know that both of us are better off because of our Kate and Care. This Tripel was brewed with Belgian hops and the La Fin du Monde yeast strain. It came out a little hot and heavy but it is delicious. Be careful though, at 10.5% this tripel will quickly leave you seeing double.

Indulgence Chocolate Porter 

Named after one of the practices that Luther protested; the selling of indulgences to save your soul! You may remeber a famous quote from Friar Johann Tetzel who said "As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs" Luther believed that you didn't have to buy your way into Heaven.

And, speaking of Heaven, this is probably my favorite beer of all the ones I've made. It is an extract beer made with British Chocolate Malt and American Simcoe and Cascade hops. There are 4oz of hops, 2 pounds of specialty grains and nearly 10 pounds of extract in this 5 gallon brew. It pours like tar, but drinks like silk.

 PhilliPorter

Named in honor of Luther's good friend Philipp Melanchthon, this beer is very similar to Indulgence. Because of the hop shortage, I had to use Perle hops instead of Simcoe. Slightly sweet with an exceptional hop aroma.

404 EPA 

This beer is named after a book titled "Four Hundred and Four Articles for the Diet in Augsburg". This book, a ridiculous attempt to brand Luther as a heretic, was written by John Eck in 1520. The book was slanderous and highly inaccurate.

This EPA is anything but slanderous. Nice hop aroma and bitterness. Very easy to drink. This one was bottle conditioned and is very refreshing.

        Confession Coffee Stout  

No doubt you've heard the phrase "beer is for breakfast". Well this is breakfast in a glass. You've got your oatmeal and your coffee together in one (spoon not included). I must confess this fantastic beer was an accident. It was terrible tasting and full of sediment which kept plugging my stout faucet. I decided to add a half pound of Caribou Coffee Espresso for 24 hours and then filtered it. The result was astonishing, and the only beer my mom will drink. Served on nitro, very smoooooth.

Worms Apricot Ale

This pale ale is light on hops and light on apricot but heavy on flavor. Named after the 1521 Diet of Worms, this easy drinking beer is a great summer beer. So refreshing. This is not a wheat beer, I may just have a little chill haze. Much of the haze is condensation on the outside of the glass.

"I cannot and will not recant!"

Oktoberfest!

Brewed in the traditional Märzen style. Märzen is German for March. In old Germany it was too warm in the summer to make beer so they would make a bunch of beer in the spring and bury it in caves. Consumption was limited during the summer for fear that the beer would run out. At the end of the summmer when it started to get cooler beer production resumed. At this point any beer that was left in the caves was dug out and enjoyed at Autumn Festivals. Prost!