Misc.

Homebrewing for Beginners : Best Brewing Kits

November 23, 2011

Which Brewing Kit to Buy? People often wonder about the best way to get started brewing, or the best gift to purchase for someone who is interested in brewing. This question can be answered in a variety of ways. It really depends on how seriously someone may eventually take the hobby. What’s important? Is it [...]

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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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Homebrew Iodine Test | Starch Conversion

January 21, 2011

Testing Mash Starch Conversion As I was doing my second mash ever, I started to worry that my starches weren’t converting to sugars.  For the sake of “better safe than sorry”, I ran over to the drug store and picked up a bottle of iodine. As it turned out, I had nothing to worry about, [...]

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How to Make a Yeast Starter

January 2, 2011

Quick & Easy Yeast Starter Leading up to my first All Grain batch of beer, I needed to create my first yeast starter.  Up to this point I’d only used dry yeast from the various kits I’d made, so everything about using liquid yeast was new to me.  In theory, you’re supposed to be able [...]

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Book Review : Yeast: The Practical Guide to Beer Fermentation

January 1, 2011

Yeast: The Practical Guide to Beer Fermentation I’ve read a bunch of brewing books over the last year, so I’ve decided to start writing a bit about them after I’m done. Most everything I do when I brew comes from some little nugget of wisdom I’ve grabbed from either a book or website, so it [...]

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Kegging Homebrew | Carbonating Beer

September 29, 2010

My New Kegging Setup I’ve had my eye on the kegging setup at my LHBS for a while, and I finally got excited and bought it.  It’s a pretty standard setup, but I figured I’d take a few pictures to show it off. The ‘kit’ I got came complete with a keg, the pressure gauges, [...]

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My First Growler Bomb

July 11, 2010

My First Bottle Bomb I’d been told about the dangers of bottle bombs when making homebrew.  I’ve always used kits, so I’ve had pretty consistent results, which would make sense with pre-measured priming sugar.  My recent Mr. Beer Blonde Ale was a different deal, though.  Usually with Mr. Beer kits, I had been using the [...]

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