Dec 30
Oooh, baby! Got this thing bottled tonight. Also got to use my new Christmas present! The top part is called an avvinator. You fill the bowl up with sanitizing solution, use the pump to spray sanitizer into bottles, then hang them on the bottling tree. Worked great. So, while the kids were doing the bottles, …
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Dec 27
Christmas Eve. That time of year when the kids are getting antsy with anticipation. A feast is being prepared. Candy is out. The tree is lit. There is a festive warmth to the air. What better time to brew some beer? Tragor’s Brown Ale, as I am calling this one. I did have a bit …
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Aug 18
You have an all grain recipe you want to convert to extract? You have an extract recipe you want to convert to all grain? Well, my friend, here is your answer. Just use this chart below and convert what you need. By the way, this assumes a pretty good extraction ratio on your all grain. …
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Jul 29
Tonight with the help of my friend Rob, I was finally able to bottle my Belgian BJ’s Millennium Ale clone. Final gravity on that bad boy was 1.022, giving me an alcohol content of 9.45%. Holy guacamole! If you don’t count the mead, that’s the strongest beer I’ve brewed. I got 46 regular bottles and …
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Jun 20
It’s summer. Have plenty of pale ale, so now time to do something light and tasty. I’ve been dying to do a Belgian golden/Belgian wit/Belgian whatever with coriander, honey, and other goodies. So, on that note, I decided it’s time to do a clone recipe of BJ’s Millenium Ale. But, I decided to change a …
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May 22
Saturday (May 21st), I decided to do two things at once: Brew a 10 gallon batch of beer and bottle my wife’s Framboise. Well, they don’t call be crazy for nothing. I decided to redo my Liberty Pale Ale, since the first time I did it it was so stinking good. Alas, I didn’t have …
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Apr 11
So, in what seemed like an eternity, I finally got around to transferring my lovely wife’s Framboise to a secondary fermenter this last Saturday. Didn’t take the gravity, which I originally planned on doing, but added the Belgian yeast to it- some good old Wyeast 3278 Belgian Lambic Strain. I’ll plan on letting it sit …
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Mar 21
I’ve been wanting to revisit my last Framboise attempt for some time, and with our kitchen being clean I decided now is the time. So, after some research and some thinking, here’s the recipe I’ve come up with: 7lbs liquid wheat malt extract (I believe Steinbart’s uses a 60/40 barley/wheat ratio) 1lb dry malt extract …
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Jan 23
Friday I made a batch of my East India IPA. I redid the recipe from last time, with only two differences. As I was getting my ingredients, Steinbarts ran out of the 120L crystal malt. So, I used 1/4lb of the 120L crystal and 1/4lb 80L crystal. I also had access to some loose leaf …
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Jan 10
As those of you who follow this know, I number each batch of beer I do. Currently I’m up to batch 40. Well, after making a little spreadsheet of all the beers I’ve brewed, I realized I screwed up in my numbering. My Lucky Stout I did last year was batch 36. My next batch …
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