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Lost Beer Hunter

August 30th, 2007 travis 3 comments

Michael Jackson

For those that have not already heard, the beer and whisky community has lost one of the great minds and writers of our time. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Jackson family.

I am sure they serve great beer in heaven.

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Ode to Racking Cane

August 28th, 2007 travis 5 comments

So while brewing the last few times, I had some time to reflect. What is the most indispensable piece of equipment in my homebrew operation? I would like to think of my setup as a football team, no one part more important than the next. But we all have our favorites.

While racking my brew, [...]

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A good brew day keeps me coming back!

August 24th, 2007 travis 2 comments

So after the Saturday fiasco I had with my Barley Wine (I will update on this at the end of the post) I was in need of a good brew day. Plus, I didn’t want to waste a good yeast. So I went ahead and planned a rare week night all-grain session. Since I had [...]

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First stab at Barley Wine

August 20th, 2007 travis 4 comments

As much as it must seem that I spend all my time making beer gadgets, I still brew. Though I will admit that I have been on a sporadic summer schedule. I have some big plans, have had some success and some not-so-success. Here goes:
This past weekend I tried two new things with my Barley [...]

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Tap

August 3rd, 2007 travis No comments

So since the last post was titled “Box” it’s only appropriate to title this one “Tap”. Hopefully someday I will have a “Tab Box” post, but that’s in the future.
So I cracked open the tower that I wrote about here that I got off of eBay (for $14!) and I have to say, the news [...]

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Box (wish I could come up with a better name for this post)

August 3rd, 2007 travis 3 comments

After a long time of thinking about doing this, I decided to get things started. Let me begin by explaining that I got this inspiration (and a lot of the logistics) from Ben’s Homebrew and a project that he has had working with a dorm fridge. I loved the idea and happened to have a [...]

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