Category: Home Brewing

Homebrewing, recipies, tips and process

Simple Cider Ingredients

Super Simple Cider

With my second batch of cider, the first one being several years ago, I wanted something easy to make for my friends and family at Thanksgiving this year.  A long drive to my local’ish farmers market, I...

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Beer. Simply Beer. Not my Beer

“Beer. Simply Beer.”  is not my beer.  A couple months back Midwest Homebrew Supplies started a line of homebrew recipe kits called: While it may look similar or confusing with my brand, I have...

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Back in the Saddle Brown Ale

My first beer in 18months, thought it should be relatively simple to get reacquainted with my equipment. I thought a hoppy brown ale would be fun as well as useful for the beer brine...

Simply Beer Rye Whiskey Barrel

How to Use and Care for Your Oak Barrel

A couple years ago I was fortunate enough to receive a document from a highly respect Brewmaster that contained a collection of emails from breweries regarding how they care for their barrels.  To me, this...

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What to do first?

It’s been two years since I’ve put my thoughts here for who ever wants to read. Now the question is, What do I need to do first? It’s been so long since I’ve brewed,...

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Harvest Red Ale – All Grain Recipe

This is a recipe I use every year with my homegrown centennial hops. I enjoyed it so much this year I brewed this version of it with commercial hops. I hope you enjoy it!...

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English Mild All Grain Recipe

Type: All Grain Batch Size: 5.00 gal Boil Size: 8.24 gal Boil Time: 60 min End of Boil Vol: 6.24 gal Final Bottling Vol: 4.25 gal Fermentation: Ale, Two Stage Equipment: Stainless Kegs (10...

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Learn to Homebrew Day, Nov 2nd, 2013

Saturday, Nov 2nd, is AHA’s 15th annual “Learn to Homebrew Day”.  I realize most of you reading my blog are probably already Homebrewers, so go out an find a friend a teach them about...

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DIY – Building a Hop Spider

This is one of the easiest, high reward DIY projects you can do as a homebrewer.  For just over $25 and about 10 minutes of your time you can build a hop spider which...