Biggie Handmade Goods » beer http://thebiggie.com Biggie Handmade Goods Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:34:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 The Railsplitter http://thebiggie.com/2009/03/18/the-railsplitter/ http://thebiggie.com/2009/03/18/the-railsplitter/#comments Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:04:13 +0000 biggie http://thebiggie.com/blog/?p=84 The beermaking adventure is complete (for now)!  I gave Chris a homebrew kit for Christmas and when enough bottles were collected, we got started brewing.  This past weekend they were ready for drinking, so we cracked open our wheat beers we dubbed The Railsplitter.

The Railsplitter by you.

We started making the beer on Lincoln’s birthday, hence the name The Railsplitter.  The text below the image states: ‘Please Enjoy This Tall Sucker – Brewed and Bottled at C+B Ranch.’  Back in the Lincoln days, a person from Illinois was referred to as a sucker… not really what it means today!

The very first step in the process was to boil the malt extract (and hops).  I gotta say, it stunk up the whole house! About a week later, we bottled and capped the suckers, then they sat for a month.

Now it’s beer!

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Yeah, that’s right.   Guinness cupcakes with a simple buttercream frosting.  I love making beer bread, so why not add a bottle to some cupcakes?  I think I am defintely going to experiment with other beers, flavors, etc… maybe do something beer-y with the frosting…

oh, cupcake, you are my friend…

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