Grizzly Tears APA: Batch 35 : All-Grain

December 12, 2011

Batch 35: American Pale Ale After a couple of problematic previous batches, I needed to right the ship.  I bought some heavy duty cleaning detergent from my LHBS, and cleaned every piece of equipment that I use.  In hindsight, should have done that a long, long time ago.  I was under the impression that sanitization [...]

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Fresh Hop Ale 2011 : Batch 33 : All-Grain

November 3, 2011

Fresh Hop Ale 2011 I planted some hops this year!  I’d been wanting to do it for a while, but always missed the very small window to plant in the Spring.  This year I did, and get two varieties in the ground. I planted two rhizomes each of Centennial and Cascade.  I’m not overly familiar [...]

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Tongue Splitter APA : Batch 26 : All-Grain

July 4, 2011

Tongue Splitter American Pale Ale I try to buy all of my ingredients locally.  I have a great LHBS, and I make a point to see that they get as much of my money as I can spend there.  However, I had an item that I wanted to order from Northern Brewer, so I decided [...]

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Washing Yeast & Leftover Ale

March 19, 2011

Washing Yeast Lately I’ve become a big fan of reusing yeast.  Especially when using liquid yeast, it seems like you should get more than one batch of beer out of something that is such a large portion of your cost per brew.  I’ve read that reusing once is fine, twice is okay, but after that [...]

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