Here’s a great idea that I’m scrubbing from BYO.com, using a pumpkin as the fermenter for your pumpkin ale. I haven’t tried it yet, but this Halloween season may be the perfect time. Old Pumpculiar (Pumpkin-spiced old ale) (10 gallons, all-grain) OG = 1.059 FG = 1.013 IBU = 20 SRM = 25 ABV = [...]
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Harvesting Homegrown Hops
I was out in the sticks checking out the hops last weekend and they aren’t quite ready to come down. And really, since this is our first year growing, there’s no real harvesting to do anyway. Regardless, I’m trying to get some good information on when, should we need to, we’ll know to harvest our [...]
Brewing Season is Upon Us
Before I left for Belgium we brewed what would be our first and final beer for the summer of 2010, a delicious and successful Saison. When I returned from my trip I learned that we had lost our sweet brewing space. Fortunately, we’ve got another lined up, it’s just not quite as cherry (or close) [...]
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Building Our Keggle
Matt and I have been pretty blessed to have access to an industrial kitchen. It’s made the processing of learning and improving our homebrewing incredibly comfortable. So comfortable, in fact, that I can’t believe anybody actually brews in their kitchens at home. Besides trashing your kitchen, 95% of kitchens just aren’t equipped with decent enough [...]
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Proper Amounts of Sugar for Bottle Conditioning
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 [...]
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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 [...]
Washing Yeast for Reuse
This is a great article on how to clean off your yeast to reuse in your next batch of homebrew. This is one of several ways to drop your costs for making your delicious homebrew.
9 DIY Homebrew Rigs
This is a great survey done by Popular Mechanics on different beer brewing set-ups. #4 is pretty slick, me thinks.