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    NEW Product Launch - Bottom Draining Kettles

    These are interesting as they allow full drainage and filling from the bottom. A 2 vessel Boil/MT system for no sparge would be a step towards a LODO environment but even just a one vessel eBIAB would be a nice upgrade. Are seals or gaskets offered for the lids? What kind of vacuum can the...
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    1970s "Dark" Beer?

    To my dismay there was no explicit American "Dark" beer recipes (that I noticed). Most recipes in this book that use Brewers Caramel specify 1 - 2 tsp (5ml per teaspoon). These are 1970's recipes with a different specification method and need to be "upgraded" as such. My book has a Lowenbrau...
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    1970s "Dark" Beer?

    I have an old homebrewing book "Brewing Beers Like Those You Buy" by Dave Line (1978?). IIRC it has several recipes for these "style" beers (Lowenbrau, etc...) and several of the recipes do use the Brewers Caramel. IIRC it was a UK, Europe centric book w/ a few US beers in the mix. I'll look...
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    1970s "Dark" Beer?

    Not a recipe per se but various caramel colorings are available to color a base beer as opposed to the specialty grain route. It would stand to reason that in addition to darkening beer these colorings would be the reason why some beers appear brighter in color. Not sure of the percentage or...
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