Today marks opening day of the 2011 baseball season, perhaps my favorite day of the entire year. It marks the last time for the next six months that a Cubs fans can drink out of joy rather than pain. But more than that, it is the start of a long string of sleepy and meandering [...]
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Mr. Malty Yeast Pitching Rate Calculator
We attempted to brew a Marzen a couple weeks ago. Everything seemed to go very well: we had a decent starch conversion, we sparged with 8 gallons of water that boiled down to a gorgeous brown/burgundy of 5.5 gallons of sweet liquor, and seemed to be ready to have a successful lager on our hands. [...]
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She-Devil Novelty Tap Handle
As I mentioned in a previous post, I cleaned my kegerator lines last night and, inadvertantly, my entire keg fridge. It’s odd how, as you grow more rings around your trunk, you come to truly relish and enjoy the simpler things in life. I love the time I get to spend with my kegerator, disassembling [...]
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