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I always wanted to keep all personal dialog off of my blog. It really flies in the face of the objective of this blog. However, in this case, I need a place to vent and this is my medium of choice. I apologize in advance:
This past week I have not been on BA or on [...]
So I spent this weekend going through my kegging system and replacing lines, cleaning and making the sensitive balance that it my keggerator flow. For those of you that have not checked out the post that I did on my operation, my keggerator consists of a mini-fridge that holds a cold plate and has a [...]
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So last night, while getting prepped to watch the Sopranos, I kicked my keg. The Schlitz is finally all gone and I am almost ready to keg my Californication so I am feeling good about the whole situation. That is until I start to go through my cleaning process.
I hosed out the keg and started [...]
I figured since my last post was number 50, I should do something to shake it up so here it is…
Seriously though, I made some changes to the design to and make this a more scalable and navigable website. I loved my old design and I spent a lot of time getting it the way [...]
Last night was my brew club meeting and the topic was sparging. I learned quite a bit, both from the presentation and from some conversations I had afterwards. Here is what I came away with:
There are 5 signs to stop sparging:
You run out of sparge water
the PH turns (more or less acidic, not sure what [...]
Okay, so this is something I have thought about doing for quite some time and am only now getting to it so here we go:
Not too long ago I built my first mash-tun out of a cooler and have been using it ever since. However, my first few batches had some problems because I used [...]
Got your attention right? I was looking to do a Mead using honey and some fruit (Cyser) and I got a recipe from a buddy on Beer Advocate that was for a Metheglin. I brewed this up without any cooking, heating or much else. It was quite easy and I made about 2 gallons of [...]
