Well, it didn’t work quite as I had hoped. The up side is it turns out we’re getting most of our mileage from our mash, washing the majority of the fermentable sugars from our grains in the first runnings. The down side is that that means we’re only going to get 1 batch per grain [...]
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Follow Up on 2nd Runnings Brew…
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Quick Switch Between Cornelius (Homebrew) Keg & Sanke (Commercial) Keg
Last night we bottled our first batch of OA beer. It was pretty awesome to see our experiment limping idly towards success. The beer turned out to be much lighter than it appeared while fermenting in the carboy, but it was pretty remarkable how much like beer this strange concoction actually looked. We siphoned the [...]
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AHA Teach Your Friend to Homebrew Day
Brew & Grow is hosting the 11th Annual Teach Your Friend to Homebrew Day here in beautiful Chicago. The event will go from noon until 4pm at the Brew & Grow store at 1824 N. Besly Ct. View Larger Map
Racking Cane Sanitation and Use
Our first batch of OA Bitter is kicking and screaming it’s way through the birthing process as I write this, so it’s time for me to start thinking about bottling this stuff for the second fermentation. One seriously important step in the bottling process is getting the beer out of the carboy, away from the [...]
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Brew Your Own Beer Video Sequence
I like this guy’s style and his laid back approach to the process of home brewing beer. I’m starting with a Malt extract so we’ll be skipping these first two steps. He also skips the yeast starting, which I think is helpful, so I’ll post another video with that in the future. The Mash: The [...]