Water is crucial to making great beer. Why is Dublin water excellent for stouts? Why does Burton make great pale ales? It’s all about the water baby. To help me learn water adjustments and to satisfy my geek-out requirements, I built a water analysis tool. Fundamentally, it is built on top of the excellent spreadsheet [...]
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dyi stir plate
Saturday, June 6th, 2009I’ve been hearing and reading from a lot of sources that a making a yeast starter is another powerful tool to make great beer. Giving your yeast ample time to multiply and activate before you pitch is essential to meet proper pitching rates for both store-bought packs and cakes recovered from your primary of a [...]
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fermentation friday: brewday joys & stresses
Thursday, May 28th, 2009I’m hopping on the homebrew-blog-talk-bandwagon here and throwing in my own $0.02 about the biggest joys and stresses of brewday. Granted I’ve had ONE brewday total to date so maybe this is more like my own $0.002…maybe this remind the veterans of their first time, oh yeah. You can check out more homebrewer’s thoughts at [...]
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advice
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009My gear comes tomorrow. Stoked. In between hitting F5 on the FedEx page every 30 seconds I’ve been looking over ‘general advice’ threads on homebrew forums, reddit, etc. Here are some of the clutch quotes, musings:
You’re going to fuck up. Don’t let that scare you.
You have to drink beer while making beer.
Read Jim Palmers [...]
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