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My First All-Grain Adventure

by Luke

This past weekend I had the distinct pleasure of brewing my first batch of all-grain beer. The brewing took place in the basement homebrew setup — complete with exhaust hood, temperature controlled refrigeration units, a warm room and much more… yeah, it’s that awesome — of a good friend and professional brewer, Ben. Ben was [...]

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Lessons in Homebrewing: Temperature

by Luke

When it comes to homebrewing, you learn something new with every batch. And that’s just what happened to me the last few days. This past Saturday I brewed the Bourbon Barrel Porter extract kit from NorthernBrewer.com and everything seemed to go just fine with the brew. I used dry yeast but re-hydrated it before pitching [...]

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Beer on the Discovery Channel This Week

by Luke

On December 18th at 8:00pm, The Discovery Channel’s “How Stuff Works” will air an hour-long feature on the essentials of beer making. The episode will feature footage of Charlie Papazian’s home hop garden, homebrew “garage” beer stash and sampling procedures. As well as Dogfish Head owner Sam Calagione and his perspectives on “how stuff works” [...]

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Homebrewing on Boing Boing

by Luke

As I was finally sitting back down to my computer this afternoon, after a few much needed days off, to get re-acquainted with the Internet’s beer happenings, the last place I expected to come across anything Beer was Boing Boing but in fact, there it was – a great post on homebrewing and what makes [...]

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Homebrewer Invents Hugely Helpful Brew Hauler

by Luke

Tom Raich, a 53-year-old pharmacist from Michigan, who is a longtime homebrewer has created a gadget called the Brew Hauler, which — thanks in no small part to the increasing popularity of homebrewing in general — seems to really be taking off. According to the Kalamazoo Gazette, Raich had struggled hauling his five-gallon carboy, a [...]

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Win a Free Kegerator from Kegerators.com

by Luke

What’s one thing every homebrewer (or really, every beer enthusiast) wants? Their own kegerator, obviously. Well, thanks to Kegerators.com, soon that will be a reality for one lucky homebrewer. All you need to do to win is “Make a funny, shocking, cool, stupid or impressive video showing what you would do for a free kegerator”. [...]

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