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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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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All Grain Ranger IPA Clone : Batch #17

January 18, 2011

All Grain Ranger IPA Clone My first All Grain batch of beer!  After spending the last couple of years brewing with beer kits, I finally invested in the equipment to be able to brew All Grain (as opposed to using extract). The move to All Grain is a pretty exciting one for several reasons.  First [...]

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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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Brewer’s Best Dunkelweizen 2010 : Batch #16

December 29, 2010

Brewer’s Best Dunkelweizen This batch will be my last kit beer for a while.  After months of thinking about it, I’ve finally taken the next step in to All Grain brewing.  It seemed like such a big step to take, but now I’m wondering what the heck took me so long… It’s only fitting that [...]

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