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This is the tale of two ESB’s. Last brew day we did a 20 gallon batch so both Nick and I had 10 gallons. Coming out of the primary, both were pretty cloudy and lacked any clarity. Having been down this path before, I decided to add gelatin. However, since I had two of the [...]
After all of my problems with bottling, I decided to take the advice from some of the folks who so kindly submitted advice. I also spent some time reading back up on brewing basics. Sometimes in the heat of brewing bigger and better, we forget to cover the basics. Well this week was a good [...]
A few nights back I had a great conversation with Ted to catch up on brewing. Ted was marveling at the massive new mashtun we were using and he had some practical questions about it. The one that stuck out to me was:
“Do you have something against batch sparging?”
While I have saught for the fly [...]
So here I am, two years and some change later, still writing on this brew blog. I constantly have to ask myself “why do this?” and after the last few weeks, I am reminded of the answer.
I started this blog in late 2005 after reading Blog! By David Kline (and a whole host of other [...]
This was the first weekend brewing with the NEW 100qt mash tun. While there is still a lot of work to be done on this hoss, we figured we would give it a test drive the old fashioned way; put her to work. We decided the best way to do that was a 20gallon batch [...]
This time around, Nick wanted to do this “right” so we were going to do this in two phases so as to avoid some of the cobjobbery of the past. The plan here was simple; replace the plug that came with the cooler with a 1/2in ball lock valve and attach that to a [...]
Since I have started doing “stuff” with my beer that I brew, I have begun to notice the need to revisit one of the more basic aspect of brewing; bottling. For me it’s a rather contentious relationship. When I got into brewing, it was to have beer on tap. Nothing more.
With my recent misadventures in [...]
As many of you know, I have been at war with the guys at Monday Night Brewery (or MNB as they are now officially called) and like all wars, it hasn’t been pretty. I would like to begin by putting to rest the rumor that Bryan Adams is a member of Hezbollah. While his lyrics [...]
