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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Brewing Season is Upon Us
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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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