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October 2013, Vol.19,NO.6

This is only my personal opinion but when I decided to brew all grain I bought a grain mill. All grain means to me to be in control of the outcome of my beers based on my desire. Efficiency is a huge part of the outcome. Why would I trust someone else to do it for me.(money would be the obvious...

I do a primary for up to 2 weeks with pale ales.I do secondary for a week just to help minimize the sediment getting into the keg - 4 days at room temperature and 3 days at 30F. At day 21 -or sooner -the beer ice cold and ready to be transferred to the keg. Force carbonating around 30F takes...

The crown on top Czech Pilsner ..... "it will keep your currency at float" the beer hunter.

One of my pale ale stopped at 1.020 range some time ago. Tasted kind of sweet. I boiled some corn sugar and added to the secondary. This step restarted the fermentation and took care of the sweetness. Not a scientific approach but worked for me.

I have 8 ft lines but from time to time have the same problem. Most of the time because I over carbonated the beer. To see how much carbonation is in the beer this is what I do. I degas the keg an then slowly add just enough pressure until I see the foam moving.I discard the foam and collect the...

Yesterday, New Albion ale per basic brewing instruction.

All of them...

I harvest the yeast slurry after the fermentation is done. I fill up the mason jar with the thick yeast that caked at the bottom with a sanitized spoon. I attached a picture for you to see the consistency of the slurry. There is a little bit of liquid on the top. The mason jar is 8 ounces or...

A nice Pale Ale with 10 lbs of 2 row and a touch of caramel 60. 1 oz of hops @60 for the IBU (30-40) and 1 oz at the end. I reuse WLP007 dry English ale yeast . Grain to glass in 3 weeks. This beer is clean and bright around 5% .Usually under 20 bucks. I am checking the gravity after the...

I had to travel to Europe to have one. Luckily we had a Czech beer festival in town for a few days. Paired with some local sausage ...excellent.

Something simple from the old country ...

Eye candy from Europe

Perfect for a cold rainy afternoon...

1 year old barley wine. Boiled for 4 hours 100 IBU 9.7 ABV.

Pale ale

9.5 lbs of 2-row 8 oz of crystal 10 4 oz of aromatic .5 oz saaz(8.2) @70 @40 @20 Us05 Simple, cleared with gelatin

Sierra Nevada Pale ale clone 4 weeks old

Vienna lager

Ipa