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What to do in a Blizzard? Make Snow Beer!

Simply Beer — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:00:57 +0000

Yes, you read that right. 2 weeks ago we had a blizzard here in the north east which got me thinking; “Had anyone made beer from snow?” With no positive responses, I decided, what the hell lets give this a whirl. After a quick ph test, I found the snow and my normal brewing water [...]

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Coffee Stout Home Brewing Session – UPDATED

Simply Beer — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:00:38 +0000

Since my pumpkin porter, which I still have to bottle, I haven’t brewed anything in 4 weeks. A good dry spell for me. But I heard that a NJ chain Bar, The Office Bar & Grill, was going to be having a homebrewing contest. The winner would go up to High Point Brewing in Butler [...]

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Beer Bloggers Brew-off

Simply Beer — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:11:06 +0000

I came up with this idea a couple months back. I’m not entirely sure what dark unused part of my brain it was spawned from, but has been warmly received from the Beer Blogger’s I’ve approached about it. Basically the idea stemmed from seeing my fellow bloggers tweeting about brewing beer. It seems to me, [...]

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Roggenbier Full Moon Brewing Session

Simply Beer — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:00:08 +0000

This was my second brewing of a Roggenbier. The first was wildly successful, in my humble opinion and I wanted to do another one. I had a couple things I wanted to do with the last version of the Roggenbier, increase the rye and make it a bit darker, more of a traditional Dunkel. With [...]

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My Sour Saison Experiment

Simply Beer — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:10:31 +0000

This beer was inspired by a homebrewer I follow on Twitter, Jamey Barlow (@barlowbrewing). My original intention was to follow his recipe exactly, but that didn’t really happen. He gave me some advice based on the results of his Sour Saison experiment when he heard I was going to make it. Also, I like mucking [...]

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ESB Home Brewing Session

Simply Beer — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:00:55 +0000

Yeah me! Two brewing sessions in one week! I brewed the Coffee Stout earlier in the week and now I’m experimenting a bit on a simple ESB. Often times it is the simple recipes that can be the hardest to do well with out a lot of additives to cover up flaws. Like the Coffee [...]

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Pumpkin Porter Brewing Session

Simply Beer — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:22:22 +0000

I made this beer on a whim, had the ingredients and a basic porter recipe. I monkeyed around with the ingredients list till I got what I think might be a good or at least interesting beer. First of, started with a liter yeast starting using dryed Nottingham British Ale yeast. This yeast has a pretty [...]

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New Belgium Fat Tire Clone Brewing Session

Simply Beer — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:32:36 +0000

I got my liter starter going around 8am or so, got 10.5 lbs of grain ground with the world’s worst and slowest grain crusher. This thing is so bad if I go slow it makes powder it I go to fast it doesn’t crush, you have to find the optimum handle rotation to get the [...]

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Simply Beer IPA (all grain) Brewing Session

Simply Beer — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:45:34 +0000

After brewing the Dogfish Head 60 Minute extract clone with a friend for him, selfishly, I really wanted my own batch. So the other day I brewed what I hope to be a kind of hybrid English/American IPA. I’m hoping for the spiced malty back bone with a very floral American IPA aroma. Before you start, [...]

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Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA Organic version (Extract)

Simply Beer — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 03:56:54 +0000

In early June I was contacted by Mike Kivowitz, founder of Leafygreen.info wanting to partner up to brew an organic version of the Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA. If any of you have looked for a clone of the 60 Minute IPA, you know there are a bunch of them out there and they are [...]

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