Ice Concentration,
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Ice Concentration, Separati...
 Over 2 years ago I brewed a beer that I intended to be fashioned after Dogfish Head's World Wide Stout. I brewed a big R.I.S. ...

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Yeast Harvesting: A Novel
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Yeast Harvesting: A Novel A...
 I began washing and harvesting my own yeast about a year ago. I got excited and harvested 4 jars from 4 batches in the first ...

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Collecting Wild Yeast
 In the simplest of terms, beer fermentation consists of yeast converting simple sugars into alcohol. There are versions of th ...

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Warrior IPA 2-7-12
 On 1-27-12 I transferred the 60 minute to secondary and dry hopped. the 120 minute esque (which i'm now calling warrior iipa) ...

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Cascadian Dark Ale
 yes, Cascadian Dark. not 'black IPA', definitely not American Style India Black Ale (wtf?), Cascadian Dark Ale. this is a sty ...

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1-24-12
 visual fermentation has stopped so i checked the gravity yesterday. It's down to 1.013 which puts the beer right around 6.5%. ...

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1/6/12 Ingredients Came
 Ingredients came today for the 2 beers i'm planning. A 60 minute IPA clone and my own take on 120 minute IPA.I'll brew the 60 ...

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First Post - No-Chill brew ...
 Rogue Dead Guy Ale clone: 12-11-11:I put together this recipe based on Yooper's Dead Guy clone and a recipe found in BYO. I c ...

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Holiday Ales
 Brewing a Sierra Nevada Celebration-type Ale clone. I think I'm using a different recipe from last year. This one requires 5# ...

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Half-Gallon Batches Suck
 So I bottled all those half gallon batches, and I gotta say, SWMBO was right: it's not enough beer. To have brewed and fermen ...

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Beginning of the mash
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