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I’ve been drinking craft beers for a long time now, trying over 700 of them. It’s funny that I don’t see a ton of talk about cream ales in the craft beer circle. And hardly any a blip about it on the homebrew scene. But, as I’ve wrote about before cream ales can be so…
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Using a tip I learned from Alton Brown (for drying spices) I’ve set up a box fan and air filters to dry the hops I’ve grown at home. Then I seal them up with my vacuum sealer for storage.
My First Partiglye Post
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…
My first graf
Every year I make a six pack that I hand out to my friends and coworkers. I’ve made them IPAs, pale ales, porters, stouts, and other typical beer styles. This year I wanted to mix things up. While doing some research on what to make for this year, I came across a recipe for graf….
Making Beligian Candi Sugar (with pics & video)
If you’re looking in to making strong Belgian beers there’s a chance you’ve seen “Belgian Candi Sugar” in a recipe. You may ask yourself, “What the heck is that?” The quick answer is that it’s an inverted sugar that can raise your gravity and ABV. You can get away with dumping the same amount of…

Juice/Wort Experiment
A while ago I did a parti-gyle (see how I do them) and decided to toss some grape juice on top of my quickly boiled wort. I enjoyed it and got mixed reaction from other beer drinkers. Now I’ve decided to take this concoction and make it without the parti-gyle. Here is the recipe: Partial…