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Tis the season for a nice harvest pumpkin ale! This weekend Nick and I are going to be brewing our first vegetable beer.
Nick is in charge of preparing the pumpkin. He is going to cook chunks of 15 lbs of pumpkin for a while, peel the skin off and make it all into a [...]
So since we are not brewing this weekend and I don’t foresee myself doing any fun beer projects, I figured I would do a single post about a bunch of random odds and ends. Later this week I will post up the final recipe for the Pumpkin Ale Nick and I are going to brew [...]
Well it was really Saturday, but who’s keeping track?
So today we brewed a 10 gallon batch of American Brown Ale. I am leaning towards doo doo brown ale, but we will see if that will end up as the name. We started this morning at 7am and pitched at 12:30 making it a [...]
So with out revisiting the background of all this, first there was a box and then there was a tap, and now there will be a box and tap together.
This idea is all the result of a great post I saw from my friend Ben at Ben’s Homebrew. I have to thank him as always [...]
So now that I have a nice new false bottom for my mash tun, it’s time to go ahead and make a sparge arm that works. No more shower heads, no more hoses with holes in them. It’s time for the real deal.
After working with the copper on my false bottom, I decided [...]
So as always, as soon as I have something all dialed in, I get the itch. In this case, it was to build a copper false bottom like the ones I have seen online.
Now as much as my “bazooka screen el chepo” is working, there are obvious limitations and I can’t help but feel like [...]
