We’ve been struggling a bit with our bottle conditioning. The main issue is that we’re not thoroughly stirring in our corn sugar & water mixture into the beer and as a result we’re getting variation in the amount of carbonation in our beers. But we just finished our first batch of Saison and surprisingly got [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Proper Amounts of Sugar for Bottle Conditioning
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National Homebrew Day, Saturday May 1
Apparently Walpurgisnacht falls on the eve of National Homebrew Day which comes to us on Saturday this year, the Saturday which coincidentally enough is the day after I see Tracy Morgan at the Chicago Theatre *and* is on the weekend. Do you have the chills yet? Representative David Skaggs of Colorado announced May 7th as [...]
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Transferring from a Sankey to a Corney Keg
We had a big weekend this weekend. We finished construction on our first keggle in effort to expand our brewing system (I’ll post about that later). I got a chance to try some AMAZING beers – Dogfish Head 120 Minute, Jolly Pumpkin’s Lambicus Dexterious, Hansen’s Oudbietje Lambic among others. We brewed our first Saison ever. [...]
Clean and Lube Your Bearings, Boy!
Cleaned and lubed the bearings on my pool board last night. It’s a pretty simple process, here’s what I did: Took my wheels off my board and removed the bearings careful not to lose the little washers. Put the bearings in a bowl with some citrus-based Goo Gone and let them sit about ten minutes. [...]
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NPR Interview with Ron Jeffries
My wife turned me on to this nice NPR interview with Jolly Pumpkin‘s Ron Jeffries.
You Can’t Reuse Iodophor For Homebrewing Sanitation
We’re tearing through our Iodophor sanitizer and wanted to start reusing iodophor. My research shows that you can’t reuse iodophor and that it loses it’s efficacy along with it’s color after about 24 hours. So once we burn through this batch of iodophor we’re going to start using StarSan for sanitizing which you can reuse [...]
Lambrucha, a Lambic & Kombucha Blend
I’ve been seeing bottle of Lambrucha around at several Chicago beer stores. Each time I see it, I pick it up, show it to my wife and chuckle a bit. My vague curiosity giving way to the low ABV (3.5%) and the vast selection of less gimicky seeming and more delicious beers available. But after [...]
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How Not to Ride a Tow Rope
This shit is hillarious.
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Unconventional Steak Science
My roommate, Mr. King, recently cooked some steaks using the method detailed in the video above and claims to have achieved the best results he’s ever had with steak. Listening to the theory it certainly makes sense, but strikes me as strange, that of all the ways I’ve cooked steak and all the people I’ve [...]
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Anheuser-Busch Involved In Suits That Could Set Interesting Precedents
There’s an interesting article in Crain’s today. It seems Anheuser-Bush is claiming that it is not illegal for them to distribute their own beer in Illinois. Beer distributors, like Wirtz Beverage Group are calling “foul” on this, claiming it will upset the delicate 3-tier system that arguably drives up costs, limits what beer people are [...]
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