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Rebuild on my kegerator

March 29th, 2008 travis 5 comments

Last week the brown mini fridge that cooled my kegerator finally died. This little warrior went through many years of college and then to my cold plate cooler, and finally was the engine to my kegerator. Now it’s gone. God’s speed little Buddy.
On to the future. My father had a mini fridge that he was [...]

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The CNYBrew Center For Kids Who Can't Brew Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too

March 27th, 2008 travis 3 comments

I present to you the “CNYBrew Center for Kids Who Can’t Brew Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too”. Who is invited to attend? The guys over at Monday Night Brewery cause we’re about to take them to school!
It seems as though the boys at MNB want a brew off to settle [...]

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CNYBrew Undercover – Bryan Adams leader of Hezbollah?

March 25th, 2008 travis 7 comments

In this exclusive photo obtained by CNYBrew, it has been confirmed that Bryan Adams is an active member of Hezbollah. Pictured here with Hussan Nasrallah, Hezbollah head, Bryan Adams is clearly embracing the terrorist leader.
While little has been written of Adams connection to the terrorist organization, the evidence of his long standing relationship with Hezbollah [...]

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Big score on kegs!!!

March 25th, 2008 travis 4 comments

Tonight I hit a big score on kegs. After Bryan – who started brewing with us last weekend – indicated he was wanted to skip bottling all together and go right into kegging because with an easy conversion he could have his kegerator serving homebrew. Because of his need for kegs and my getting close [...]

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Oh yea, big grab!

March 20th, 2008 travis 2 comments

I just won this 100qt hoss on eBay for a steal at $38 with shipping. These things go for upwards of $100 new. This is going to allow us to brew up some BIG batches without the problems we have had in the past.
More to come on this little treasure…

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Three Brew Weekend!

March 18th, 2008 travis 5 comments

This past weekend we brewed up three batches of brew. We also broke a new brewer into the hobby when by wife’s cousin Bryan (Yes MNB, spelled like Bryan Adams, no need to get all giddy) joined us and brewed up an extract batch. When the day was all said and done, we had brewed [...]

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Extra Mash Tun

March 14th, 2008 travis 4 comments

After brewing outside the capacity of our current mash tun, Nick and I have been looking for a way to build out. After surfing around for a 100+qt cooler, I was looking Craig’s List and saw a five gallon water jug for $10. I couldn’t resist.
I picked up this hoss with the [...]

Oktoberfest '08 By the numbers

March 12th, 2008 travis 2 comments

OK – So I’m a little late with this one, but I have been distracted by a little side story that caught my attention. All I have to say that even our politicians screw ups are better than those in Georgia.
So this weekend Nick and I brewed up the Oktoberfest from last year. In true [...]

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Oktoberfest in March

March 7th, 2008 travis 2 comments

In the true spirit of a Marzen, we are going to be brewing an Oktoberfest this weekend. With hopes of matching the success of the fall 2007 Oktoberfest party, the plan is to brew up 10 gallons of this delicious brew and let it age till late September when we can have friends over to [...]

Celebration Ale – Rewind

March 6th, 2008 travis 2 comments

So we went ahead and brewed this weekend to get ourselves back on track. This was again the Celebration Ale clone in exchange for wine bottles. The recipe is the same as in the previous post,except that we decided to replace the Amarillo hops with Cascade out of the pound we picked up. So when [...]

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