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I don’t know what it is…maybe it’s just that they are the perfect beer for the summer. Perhaps it’s the fact that it when brewing one it requires a lot of restraint, or may it’s just because they’re real cheap to make…I love making (and drinking) cream ales. At their core, cream ales are an…
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Check out my latest video. In this one I discuss and show how I Parti-gyle. It’s not the true way to do it, but it’s mine…so there.
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tl;dr You can pitch yeast the next day, just be sure of your sanitation. You can make two different beers from the same wort A number of weeks ago I had a pint of Hop Sun, Southern Tier’s hopped wheat ale. (Full disclosure: I’m, a ST fan boy). This pint inspired me to create a…
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In my reading about the Saison style of beer I discovered that farmhouses in Belgium and France would typically toss in left over ingredients from their harvests and put it into their beers. As a homebrewer the style can be fruitful because is very forgiving; from fermentation temperatures to percentage of ingredients. These items are…
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Preamble: I started home brewing in late 2012 and got serious about it in 2013. Before then I enjoyed (some would say collected) hundreds of different beers. When 2013 came to a close I thought to myself it would be a good idea to try a New Year’s resolution; to not buy a beer in…
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In this short video I describe the basics of all grain brewing and talk briefly about a round cooler mash tun and how to make one with a few pricing options. Oh yeah, sorry about the sirens in the background.
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Once I jumped into doing all-grain batches I wanted to try doing this old method of brewing two beers from one set of grain (or mash). The method I use is not a true partigyle because I add grain and adjuncts to the final product to bump gravity and to add a new flavor to…
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One of the biggest things that homebrewers need to be conscious of is the temperature of fermentation. For me, during the summer that is unrealistic in my house. Our temps rise and fall. So I found a solution that was fairly cheap & certainly easy to make. A refrigerator fermentation chamber. Here’s a video I…
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This past Sunday marked a year since I’ve been brewing. I just want to tell you first and foremost it has been a great year. Homebrewing beer has been so rewarding for me on so many levels.
