I recently had a couple beers with some friends and someone asked what variables, other than ingredients and cooking methods, went into making a good homebrew beer. There were two other homebrewers at the table, and we agreed that there…
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Homebrew Bottles: Pry-Off or Screw-Top?
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I sometimes get people offering to save their used beer bottles for me to put my homebrew beer in. I appreciate people trying to give me things I can use, but always politely refuse. For one thing, I don’t bottle…
Homebrew Recipe: Trashcan Beer
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I was at Maryland Homebrew a couple months ago and asked Chris there if she had ever just cobbled together a homebrew recipe from leftover ingredients. She referred to this as “trashcan beer,” the idea being that you just throw a…
The Simpsons: How Guinness is Made
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I am out of town on some family business, so until things get back to normal, I hope you will enjoy some fun stuff I will be posting here.
Gluten-Free Brewing and Recipes
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My friend Tony recently asked me about gluten-free beer. He was diagnosed with celiac, a condition that keeps many people from enjoying anything containing gluten. It can manifest in different ways, including stomach discomfort, mood changes, skin irritations, immune system…
Homebrew Recipes of our Founding Fathers: Thomas Jefferson
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To wrap up our Independence Week theme of homebrew recipes of our founding fathers, let’s take a look at Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson was a brewer, in addition to being very intellectual and a renowned supporter of scientific study. However, he…
Homebrew Recipes of our Founding Fathers: Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin’s own homebrew recipes may have differed from this a bit, as the terms and ingredients used way back when are different from what we have now. However, Tony Simmons has come up with a pretty good approximation of…
Homebrew Recipes of our Founding Fathers: George Washington
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This week here in the U.S. we celebrate our freedom from British tyrannical oppression, and what better way to do it than by celebrating our founding fathers’ homebrew recipes? We certainly owe a debt of gratitude to the British for…