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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MT Witbier Version 1 : Batch 25: All-Grain

June 7, 2011

Brewing the MT Witbier V.1 A friend of mine recently gave me a giant bucket of wheat that had been grown on his farm. He’d asked if I could find a way to make beer out of it. Seemed like a worthy challenge, right?  How hard could it be?  Turns out, it was a lot [...]

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Mr Beer Pilsner Witbier : Batch 24

May 17, 2011

Mr Beer Pilsner Witbier : One Time Only It came down to two final Mr. Beer kits left.  I’d recently brewed the IPA, and it was so awful most of that needed to go down the drain, so I wasn’t looking forward to wasting my time.  I think my processes made the IPA less than [...]

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Amarillo Blonde Ale : Batch 23 : All-Grain

May 16, 2011

Brewing an Amarillo Blonde Ale Making beer is a balancing act.  Of course, I want to make beers that I enjoy, but I enjoy Pale Ales and IPAs.  The people who help drink my brews mostly find favor with lighter, less hoppy styles.  Sure I could brew the beers that I want, and try to [...]

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Black Bart IPA : Batch 22 : All Grain

April 30, 2011

Black Bart IPA I’ve recently realized that I’m a huge fan of a black IPA.  I don’t normally gravitate to darker beers, but the touch of coffee on a heavily hopped base is so dang good.  I came across a recipe for a Black IPA on the Northern Brewer website.  I didn’t end up purchasing [...]

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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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Honey Ale : Batch 20 : All-Grain

March 12, 2011

All-Grain Honey Ale A homebrewing friend recently made a variation of the “Honey Steamer” recipe found on BYO’s website. It turned out great, and I wanted to see if I could pull off a similar all-grain version of the same thing. I’d purchased Beer Tools just before deciding to make this batch, so it was [...]

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Ledbetter Blonde Ale : Batch 19 : All Grain

February 19, 2011

Ledbetter Blonde Ale : All-Grain Brew After several batches of beer that aren’t exactly “crowd pleasers”, I decided it was time to make something a little less interesting.  Reading through the Radical Brewing book, I found a recipe for what they call “Bambi’s Best Blonde Ale.”  A Blonde Ale seemed like a pretty safe bet, [...]

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Recycled Ranger IPA Clone : Batch 18

February 2, 2011

Ranger Hopped All Grain IPA My first all-grain batch was a Ranger IPA clone, from a recipe I’d found in a recent issue of BYO magazine.  As a result of the multiple hop additions, I had a bunch of leftover ingredients.  As the first recipe had some weirdness (like a cane sugar addition), I figured [...]

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