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Recirculating Electric BIAB setup

I started thinking about brewing indoors after my first brew, which happened on a pretty chilly Chicago winter night. I really enjoyed that brew day, and most of the brew days after, however I wanted a setup I could really … Continue reading

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Correcting Low Original Gravity in All Grain Brewing

Have you ever missed your original gravity (OG) target when brewing all grain beer? Its not an uncommon problem for beer brewers, particularly when you start all grain brewing or change you equipment setup. This week we’re going to examine … Continue reading

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Should you use a Secondary for Beer Brewing?

About ten years ago a secondary fermentation in beer brewing was considered a “must do” by most top brewers. But in the last ten years, much has changed so this week we take a look at the eternal question “to … Continue reading

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29 Things You Should Know About Beer

from Huffpost

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All Grain Brewing Simplified Part 1 – Process

All Grain Brewing Simplified Pt 1: Process It can be argued that moving to all grain brewing can be the best thing you can do for the quality of your beer (pre-flameout). This being due to even more creative freedom, … Continue reading

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Cream Ale Recipes – Beer Styles

Cream Ale is a distinctly American beer style that is refreshing and smooth. It has enjoyed a resurgence recently as many microbreweries have taken up the style and even improved upon commercial versions. Cream ale enjoyed broad popularity in the … Continue reading

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Stout-Hearted in Ireland

Take a Private Tour of the Guinness Brewery. Homebrewers Only! The Guinness brewery in Dublin, Ireland, is a time machine. Cobblestone streets link the gray stone and red brick buildings — narrow thoroughfares where draft horses once clopped their way … Continue reading

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Balancing Your Brew: How To Calculate Perceived Bitterness

One of the hardest facets of beer flavor to achieve is balance. Balancing the different flavors of beer is absolutely necessary to create a complex but drinkable beer. A failure to balance flavors will make a beer seem one-dimensional or, … Continue reading

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10 Reasons to Have a Beer

Sure, you probably have beer to thank for helping you meet your girlfriend, spurring some of your greatest stories, and bringing out your worst dance moves. But it turns out there are tons of other awesome, scientifically proven reasons to … Continue reading

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How to Build a Temperature Controller

This dual-stage temperature controller is perfect for managing temperatures of your kegerator, fermentation chamber or keezer. It allows for a hot and a cool trigger to be individually controlled, so you could have your fermentation refrigerator hooked up to the … Continue reading

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