IT'S BREW DAY!
Clear wort, clean hardware, yeast ready to party.
For me, brew day peaks when clear wort starts filling the fermenter.
Personal site of LARRY Bentley
A garage put to a higher purpose.
A homebrewing collection, label archive, tap list, and home for the beers made in the garage.
I’m a New Jersey–based homebrewer with a passion for brewing and competing across a wide range of beer styles. I love both the science and creative side of the hobby and, hey, it makes beer too!
- Focus
- Homebrewed beer
- Favorite Style
- German Pilsner
- Beyond The Beer
- Labels and club days
The GEAR
Shiny stuff, ready for brew day.
Hot side consists of a 30G eBIAB bottom-drained Blichmann kettle custom built by Brew Hardware. Cold side consists of three Spike CF15 unitanks with BrewBuilt Ludicrous coils cooled by a Penguin 1/2 HP glycol chiller.
Brew day
From brew day to finished pour.
Finished pour
Satisfaction in every sip
A bright, polished pour that makes all the little details feel worth it.
Collaboration
Shared brew days in the garage
Typically, I’m a solo brewer, but I very much enjoy the occasional collaboration with good friends, especially when it’s a 16-hour triple decoction.
Brew day video
Watch a batch come together.
From spinning up a yeast starter to finished beer in the glass, condensed to eleven minutes.
Photo gallery
Brew days and beer moments.
From propane to electric brewing, collaborations, commercial scale-ups, competitions, and HomebrewCon.
Current lineup
On tap and in the pipeline.
Current pours, active ferments, and beers conditioning.
01
Pouring
Polyphonic Pilsner
- Style
- Pilsner
- ABV
- 5.2%
Bright, crisp, and built for repeat pours.
02
Pouring
Analog Alt
- Style
- Altbier
- ABV
- 5.4%
Clean malt, restrained bitterness, garage-ready.
03
Conditioning
Proper Modulation
- Style
- Marzen
- ABV
- 5.2%
A smooth lager with a little seasonal warmth.
Label archive
Beer Labels, Past and Present.
A collection of past and present beer labels from the beers I’ve brewed.
Club and competitions
Brew, drink, repeat. Preferably with a crew.
One of the best decisions I’ve made in this hobby was joining a homebrew club, specifically Garden State Homebrewers. It’s made me a better brewer and introduced me to many lifelong friends along the way.
Future notes
Future beer notes for later.
Brewing journal
Recipe notes, brew-day logs, tasting updates, and equipment tweaks can live as individual posts.
Equipment notes
Fermenters, taps, controls, and process changes can become their own reference section.
Archive pages
Labels, competitions, and build notes are already structured so they can become deeper pages.