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Kilted Hop Brewing

The new home of Kilted Hop Brewing, Home Brewery. Brewers - Kevin Wojdak "Woj" and Noah Wojdak.

09/20/2026

Brew day today with Noah. He's doing a Dry Irish Stout and I'm brewing a Double IPA.

Our first co-brew day in around 6 months.

09/13/2026

Today was picking and pressing day with Blake. Every couple years, we get together and spend a day picking some apples or pears and then pressing them.

Our event this year was an adventure as we were going to pick pears from a friend's tree but we only ended up with a third of a bucket and me taking a fall out of the tree.

So, we opted to go and buy some bushels of apples (not economical) to be able to press today. We drove from my house to Apple Holler in Kenosha in a long road trip.

Then, we drove our fruit to Blake's house to press them on his 150 year old press which is always fun.

After several other mishaps, we did manage to get 4 gallons of very expensive juice.

Hopefully, it will turn out good.

07/02/2026

In all the excitement of being at NHC (National Homebrew Conference and Competition) in Asheville, NC, I forgot to take time to post my Silver medal from First Round for my Common Cider named "Giving It A Try".

In the Final round judging, it scored 41, 41, and 39 from the judges and, I was told by one of the judges that it was the only Cider from their flight to advance to Mini-BOS.

I didn't win a final round medal but my Cider made a good showing. Something to be proud of!

06/14/2026

We had a good day at Wortapalooza today taking home Gold in the Specialty Cider category with "Tropical Spice" aka "Florida Cranberry and Baies Roses", my Hibiscus and Pink Peppercorn Cider.

Then, from there I took 3rd place Best of Show for Meads/Ciders.

Overall, a fine day!

05/30/2026

Finally received the hardware from the Washington DC competition from March... a Gold medal from the DC Homebrewers Cherry Blossom Competition for my German Helles Exportbier named "Beautiful Boy".

This beer was brewed in honor of the birth of my first grandchild born in December.

https://www.dchbcompetition.com/

05/20/2026

Great news coming out of GLINTCAP (Great Lakes International Cider and Perry), one of the largest Cider competitions in the world...

I took Gold, Best In Class in the Botanical Cider category with my Hibiscus and Pink Peppercorns Cider named "Florida Cranberry and Baies Roses".

Silver in the main category for Botanical Ciders.

And, Silver for my Modern Cider "Giving It A Try".

Thank you Great Lakes International Cider & Perry Competition

https://michiganciders.com/glintcap-2026-noncommercial-results/

05/10/2026

Just wrapped up a 2nd batch of beer from Big Brew Day last weekend. I had 3 gals of extra wort from last weekend and stored it in my keg cooler for a week.

I pulled it out and boiled up a mini-batch of Red IPA today.

It was a bit windy outside so I had the bonus brew in the house today.

05/02/2026

Small crowd brewing for Big Brew Day at Church Street Brewing Company.

Wort for the day is Red Ale but I'm transforming it with a mini-mash and some Munich into a Märzen.

Fresh Augustiner yeast provided by Church Street will provide the rocket fuel for fermentation.

04/26/2026

Just finished brewing batches #5 & #6 of 2026... and also my 400th batch for Kilted Hop Brewing. (425 all-time)

Today's brew day was two variations of my Tropical Stout "Parrot Spit"!

Overall, the day went well with only one mishap with my mash tun.

My beverages for the day were, for the most part, non-alcoholic. I was evaluating a new product for a friend... the Sober Carpenter. Interesting stuff that worked well with the day and tasted pretty good.

I also bottled a new mead which was an old mead reimagined. I made a Mango blossom Traditional in March 2021 that has remained hot and somewhat dry. I tweaked it with some Amoretti lemon flavoring, some oak, and backsweetened it a bit. It's now a Limoncello mead.

04/17/2026

It's official... I have one cider moving forward to the 2026 National Homebrew Competition (NHC) Finals in Asheville, NC from the Chicago Regional Competition.

https://homebrewersassociation.org/national-homebrew-competition/2026-winners/chicago-il/

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