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1.How To Homebrew : All-Grain Beer (www.themadfermentationist.com)
Over the years I've gotten numerous emails asking me to do a post detailing how I brew. This post is the answer to those requests. What follows is not the only way, or necessarily the best way, but it is how I brew. The pictures ...
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2.Bottling the baby beer: a family affair (chibebrau.blogspot.com)
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3.Pipeline (www.brainardbrewing.com)
Pipeline: the backlog of home made beer supply you have. A good pipeline is three full kegs sitting there at cellar temp “conditioning” while waiting for space in the keg fridge, while two more batches ferment getting ready to be kegged in ...
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4.Nanobrewery Interviews: Wolf Hills Brewing Company (Part 1) (www.lugwrenchbrewing.com)
While most of us have toyed with the thought of starting up a nanbrewery, others have taken the plunge. To find out more about who these people are and what makes them do what they do, Jeff and I embarked on a series of interviews with regional n...
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5.Harvesting Sour Beer Bottle Dregs (www.themadfermentationist.com)
I've soured beers using many different microbe sources, but I've had the best results from pitching the bottle dregs from good commercial sour beers. The bottle dregs (yeast sediment) at the bottom of a sour beer contains the microbes respon...
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6.White Birch Brewing Co. Interview (Part 1) (www.lugwrenchbrewing.com)
Let’s face it – the concept of starting up a nanobrewery is an idea many of us in homebrewing have entertained at one time or another. While most of us have just toyed with the thought, others have taken the plunge and put their money where t...
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7.Blending Lambic into Gueuze with Two Masters (www.themadfermentationist.com)
It's rare that I get to hang out with homebrewers who out-nerd me when it comes to sour beers. I've got a 60 gallon barrel of solera sour in my basement, a reasonable knowledge of both traditional and modern techniques, and a couple medals to my ...
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8.Krausening Home Brewed Beer (www.beersmith.com)
Krausening is a traditional German method for carbonating beers without using sugars or other adjuncts. Instead actively fermenting malt wort is added to the fermented beer to provide the malted sugars needed for carbonation.
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9.2009 Breweries Per Capita – Ranking by State (www.lugwrenchbrewing.com)
The recent attention from media outlets on the 2010 U.S. Census got me pondering the topic of beer-related demographics – specifically breweries and brewpubs. Where are all of these breweries and brewpubs distributed throughout the country? Are there s...
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10.Pro Brewer for a Day; Fool for a Lifetime (chibebrau.blogspot.com)
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11.Pale Belgian Sugar Experiment Tasting (www.themadfermentationist.com)
Probably the most debated question among homebrewers when the topic of brewing pale Belgian beer (Belgian Blonde, Strong Golden, Tripel etc...) comes up is which sugar to use. These beers don't need a characterful sugar (like a Dubbel of Belgian ...
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12.The Session #37: When To Drink The Good Stuff (www.lugwrenchbrewing.com)
Welcome to The Session – a collaboration of bloggers writing on a common beer-related topic. For March, Greg Norris over at The Ferm chose “The Display Shelf: When To Drink The Good Stuff” as the collective topic to explore. You can read more about Bee...
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13.Sour Solera Beer Barrel (www.themadfermentationist.com)
The past two weekends have been my most productive as a homebrewer, at least from a volume standpoint. My friend Nathan (whose basement houses the two "group" barrels that I have posted about repeatedly in the past) suggested that we get a third ...
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14.IBU Bitterness Ranges By Beer Style Chart (www.lugwrenchbrewing.com)
Below is the second Style Chart in the series, which visually compares IBU bitterness for each of the BJCP Beer Styles. As mentioned in the first Style Chart posting, this project started out as a simple impulse while reading the BJCP guidelines, but t...
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15.Brew-In-A-Bag Brewing: Something Worth Trying (www.lugwrenchbrewing.com)
Why is it that there never seems to be enough time in a given day/week to get done what we really want to accomplish. The overburdened days have an effect on all aspects of life, including our hobby of home brewing. Whether its family obligations, work...
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16.Ice Ice Baby (www.brainardbrewing.com)
Once again Brew Dog has done it. They’ve gone and raised the ire of all wings of the beer and political communities. Not complacent to be second best, it’s time to make the world’s strongest beer… again!
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17.Blurring The Line Between Beer And Wine (www.lugwrenchbrewing.com)
It seems that the end of the year and beginning anew always sparks the insipient trend of “Top of the Year” lists. Some are quite enjoyable to read (Time’s Best Inventions, Metacritic’s Top Video Games), while others just give me w...
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18.Questioning the Wisdom (www.brainardbrewing.com)
Maybe I have become too confident. Maybe it’s boredom… I just don’t know what inspired me to try to copy a beer that I don’t even really like all that much. I mean Anchor’s Our Special Ale is a true American classic, released on...
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19.Double Sour Brewday (madfermentationist.blogspot.com)
Two days after the bottle dregs from Cable Car and Deviation were pitched into the small starter I started to see faint signs of life. I was pretty excited because with such old/sour beers there is no telling what if any micro...
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20.Black Stone Stout version 2 – Brew day (www.brewingexperiment.com)
If you remember on one of my previous posts, I said that I was going to improve on my Black Stone stout. It’s still fairly cool outside and an oatmeal stout pairs perfect with some spicy chili on those cool nights. Some of the feedback I had on...
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21.Miracle Fruit Sour Beer Tasting (madfermentationist.blogspot.com)
I was reading an article in the New York Times back in May about miracle fruit, a berry that has the ability to trick taste buds into interpreting sour as sweet, when I immediately thought "should be interesting with a sour beer." If eating this berry ...
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22.Malt Conditioning (www.brewersfriend.com)
I find that the longer I brew, the more involved I become in the process and the mechanics of every detail. Learning new techniques and testing them on your own is part of the joy of having a hobby as vast as home brewing. Some new processes or techn...
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23.Hot tamale! (www.brewcookpairjoy.com)
When I saw the tamales article in the last December/January issue of Fine Cooking, my first thought was, “Okay, I have to try this.” I’ve always loved tamales, and the sheer length of the directions intrigued me.
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24.The Great Pumpkin Ale Experiment (www.brewcookpairjoy.com)
Every fall, the moment that pumpkins become available at the local farmers market, Tim and I brew a pumpkin ale. We’ve made it for a few years in a row now, and each time, we’ve put the pumpkin in the mash since this seems to be the most co...
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25.Beer Peace (www.brainardbrewing.com)
How many brands? How few owners? Who knows? Who cares?
There has been a lot going around about how two “breweries” own over 200 beer brands, comprising a vast majority of the American beer market. As a result, there are a lot of “Bud sucks” kind of rem...
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