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Fermentation Friday – Cleaning and Sanitization

February 27th, 2009 travis No comments

Yup, it’s that time again, Fermentation Friday.  This week’s host is A World of Brews and the topic is: Cleaning and Sanitization.
My take on this is going to be short and sweet.  We all have our ways of doing things and that’s fine.  One of the first things we learn as brewers is to clean and sanitize.  However, after [...]

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The State of the Flocculation

February 25th, 2009 travis 3 comments

Madam Hops patch, Vice Keggle, distinguished bloggers, fellow brewers:
Three years have passed since I first addressed you in this blog.  In that time, the state of flocculation has been tested by hops shortages, increases in the cost of grain, and the relentless attacks by those who seek to do brewing harm.  In the face of these trials, I [...]

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In-line Filter

February 18th, 2009 travis 5 comments

I’ve been thinking about this since I saw an article in BYO where two brewers showed how to use an in-line filter to dry hop their beer in the secondary.  The concept was simple; hops go into the in-line filter and the filter, with a few barbs and hoses on the end, gets dropped into [...]

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Thoughts and prayers for Western New York

February 13th, 2009 travis No comments

Today’s tragedy is a reminder about how precious life is.  Thoughts and prayers are going out to the people in Western New York.

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Abbey review for "A Good Beer Blog"

February 10th, 2009 travis No comments

I am a guest contributor for “A Good Beer Blog” on my spare time.  Here is a post I wrote for Alan:
http://beerblog.genx40.com/archive/2009/february/travisprobestwo

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Fermentation Friday errr Tuesday!

February 3rd, 2009 travis No comments

Ted mentioned that he would like to participate in more Fermentation Fridays and even host one for his New Year Resolution and I will have to join him with resolving to being more diligent with my Fermentation Friday posts.  This week’s host was Lootcorp 3.0 and they provide a great wrap up for everyone.  As always, [...]

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Super Bowl Commercials

February 2nd, 2009 travis No comments

Best commercial of last night’s Super Bowl IMO
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--eje2zxFS8]
You’ve got to love solid use of a skins game.  In other news, Macro brewer’s really pissed away their money on the commercials this year.  They all sucked.  What was the deal with the Bud Light Lime one?  Can’t they come up with anything better than that?  I [...]

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