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Brewing Pumpkin Ale this Weekend – Mid-October 2009

October 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Since I really don’t have anything lined up this weekend, other then swapping the battery in my truck. Why not brew up another batch of beer, since I’m starting to run low on the dry stout and IPA down in the kegerator. This time I thought that I would brew up something totally different, but [...]

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Made First Batch of Hard Cider this weekend

September 21st, 2009 · 2 Comments

Its that time of the year again. With the fall harvest fast approaching, so it could only mean one thing. Time for fresh apple cider! And with fresh apple cider, it means that its time for me to make some hard cider!
Since the local homebrew shop that I use doesn’t carry White Labs (long story [...]

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Yeast separating the dry stout

September 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments

One tip on separating yeast in the fridge, don’t let it sit in the fridge overnight. Since the yeast in suspension will eventually settle on top of the trub. It may look pretty cool in the growler, to see all the gradations of trub and yeast. But all it does is forces you to start [...]

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Homebrew Session – Dry Stout

August 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Who knew that a $7 thermometer could make such a huge difference? I basically added ~13% eff to this brew session, to come in at ~73%, much better then the 60% on the last batch of IPA.
For the dry stout I had an OG of 1.050 @ 76F with ~6 gallon of wort going in [...]

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Racking the IPA to Glass Secondary

July 31st, 2009 · 1 Comment

Well its been about 5 days in the primary fermenter, and it looks like most of the activity has dropped off. Right now the airlock only bubbles about once in a minute, if not a little bit longer. I did a gravity read, and at 80F it had an FG of 1.008, so that would [...]

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Fresh centennial hops IPA

July 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments

This beer has so much fresh hops that it is ridiculous, 10.5oz in total. If you were to measure this amount of hops by volume instead of weight, it works out to about 1.5 gallons of hops. Just the pics alone demonstrate how much hops this represents. Keep in mind that 2009 has been a [...]

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Yeast starter for weekend brew session

July 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments

It looks like the centennial hops have reached there peak, so it’s time for a brew session on Saturday. After quickly hashing out an IPA recipe with JRR (recipe and brew session to be posted later.) I made a quick trip to my favorite local homebrew shop to get all the grains for the brew [...]

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