Posted on March 17, 2010 by mike
Another homebrew day was upon us this past Sunday! I felt this day was going to be a bit different than the previous homebrewing days in our little space in Fargo. Today I was going to attempt 3 things for the first time. The first thing I was going to do was to actually bottle and brew the same day. There is that hour after your boil starts that…
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Posted on February 28, 2010 by mike
A couple weeks back I asked my wife if she would like to give homerbrewing a shot. She has seen me do it a few times both at our place in Fargo and at Jay’s place, and has been enjoying the fruits of my labor. So she decided she would give it a try herself. She loves EPA’s, especially Summits EPA, so she decided to grab Northern Brewers Extra Pale…
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Posted on February 7, 2010 by mike
Today I decided to take the plunge and give lagering a try. For anyone who doesn’t know, lagering is a very similar process to my previous beers which were ales, but you ferment the wort with a different type of yeast and at different temperatures. Regardless, this is an experiment and it feels just like the first time brewing beer again. The…
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Posted on January 26, 2010 by mike
I’ve got 3 homebrews underneath my belt and I still feel like my process could be more smooth. I’ve read in some places that you should really go about 10 batches before you try to get fancy. It is really all about keeping spectacular sanitation processes and the more overall steps you add to your process the more chance you have that you’ll screw…
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Posted on January 23, 2010 by mike
Homebrewing : The Third Experiment “Bourbon Barrel Porter” This batch was a very exciting…it was the day that I finally got to brew up a batch of beer that I have been waiting to do since I decided I was going to brew. I ordered a kit from Northern Brewers, the Bourbon Barrel Porter. Finally I was going to make something a lil more interesting,…
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Posted on January 22, 2010 by mike
Another Homebrewing Session With less than a week before Christmas day a group of us decided to celebrate the looming holiday season the best way we knew how…brew another batch. Today was going to be a special day, I was going to share my first batch with the guys that have helped me along on my brewing journey and on top of that, a new comer…
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I have been brewing all grain for a few years after many years of extract brewing. I wish I would have gone all grain much e...
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Calories, shmallories... I'll make the jump to all grain as soon as I've got more room. Its WAY to cramped in my apt as it i...