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A little more than a week ago I received an invitation from Josh Solomon, Director of Sales for US Beverage Net, to visit their offices in downtown Syracuse. Funny thing is I’ve walked by their building for the last 5 years and was finally able to get in and check it out. The building was [...]
This weekend I started a project I’ve been meaning to do for a while. My garage is sheet rocked, but the previous owner never taped and mudded.
So this weekend, I spent a good 16hrs taping and mudding. This week I am going to treat the many water stains and paint. When it’s [...]
Happy holidays! Santa was good to my hobby this year. I gained a chest freezer that I turned into a four tap keggerator and a custom built brew tower. More to come on both of those as well as the 20 gallon Old Ale brew day, but for this post I wanted to share a [...]
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After a party this weekend with some of my neighbors, it was brought to my attention that there are in fact two meanings of the word “keggle.” Ignorant to the intricacy’s of female anatomy exercises, I have been known to talk about my “Keggles” and how I’ve been working on them for years. So [...]
So over the winter I was contacted by a representative from Forte Promotions about trying out some of their products and writing about them. For the last six to eight months I have been looking for the right time and place to give some test runs. Then the perfect opportunity came; Pearl Jam in Toronto – [...]
With Mother’s day upon us, many of us need to thank our wives for supporting our wacky habit of homebrewing. Happy Mother’s Day to my wife for her constant support. Considering she is not really into the beers that I brew, she finds great party themes that allow me to showcase my beers to my [...]
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This is a pretty cool video that was posted by Final Gravity. Great find. I don’t speak German, but any brew enthusiast should be able to follow this. It looks like a double decoction on the front end of this, anyone else agree?
With the snow melting and hops starting to sprout, this is a good time to think about brewing beer (I know, it’s always a good time to think about brewing beer). This month’s Fermentation Friday is hosted by HomeBrewBeer.net and the question is:
“How will you grow or change as a homebrewer this Spring? How will you embrace [...]
A while back I brewed a Belgian Abby ale that I called The First Tuesday after the First Monday Abby Ale. The original was an extract brew that I was really pleased with. Now that I have a little lag time in between large volume brews, I figured I would try a 5 or 10 [...]
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 [...]
