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A real blogger party!

June 29th, 2008 travis 9 comments

Sorry I’m late with this post, but like a good Brew Blogger, this weekend’s brewing took precedence over blogging. Fermentation Friday has come and gone, but today I had a stop in by fellow blogger Ted from Ted’s Homebrew Journal making this a real brew blogging shindig. Ted’s band was out my way for a [...]

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Fermentation Friday is here!!!

June 28th, 2008 travis No comments

OK, so here we go with the CNYBrew.com hosted Fermentation Friday. The subject for today kiddies is tell us about the craziest concoction you ever came up with (prepped or on the fly) for brewing. This can include ingredients, techniques and anything else you want to share.
For my fermentation Friday tale, I [...]

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Big racking night

June 18th, 2008 travis 2 comments

In the face of a crazy work schedule, I have found some sanity in beer. Work can sometimes be SO consuming that even when you’re at home, your mind is racing with thoughts of what you would or should have done. Some nights I can’t even sleep because there are work issues eating [...]

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Fermentation Friday hosted in Syracuse

June 14th, 2008 travis 13 comments

To follow up on Adam from Beer Bits 2 idea of fostering the beer blogging community by hosting events at our respective blogs, I am going to be hosting the June Fermentation Friday. For a quick review, the idea behind this virtual shindig is that I throw a topic out there and we all combine [...]

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Californication round two

June 6th, 2008 travis No comments

This weekend Nick wasn’t available to brew, so Bryan and I brewed up hist first batch of all-grain. For this, I wanted to take another stab at my ribbon of participation winning California Common called Californication from last year. This year I made some changes to the recipe and quadrupled the recipe for [...]

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I hope I'm not too late

June 1st, 2008 travis 1 comment

Adam from Beer Bits 2 came up with this idea to have a blogging party on a mothly basis with other people hosting. We’ll in true Travis fashion, I managed to be late. Better late than never I suppose. Here is how I got started with homebrewing:
While in college, I was a [...]

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