Tag: fermentation
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5 Carolina Reapers (3 dried, 2 fresh) 1 Mad Hatter 2 Baby bell Peppers 10 Habaneros 2 tbsp honey fermented garlic cloves (the fermented cloves) 2 tbsp olive oil marinated garlic cloves (the marinated cloves) 3 green guavas trimmed 2 fresh lemon guavas trimmed 4 tabasco peppers 6 cups of water 6 tsp salt The…
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So this year has been both slow for brewing and slow for blogging. In hopes of preparing for the 2nd half of the year I have begun a sprint of brewing in the last week. I have bottled the Honey Hibiscus Wit, Brewed another Southern Brown ale, Brewed a basic Amber ale with a new…
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And with this short plug, I announce the official first homebrews of 2013! I have tasted, I have loved and I will brew again! The Southern English Brown is phenomenal and the Holiday has mellowed since I tasted during bottling! Here’s to you home-brewers! Cheers!
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So my experiment with cider or spiced apple juice seems to be plodding along very very well. Apple Juice Dark Brown Sugar Agave Nectar Cinnamon Homemade Vanilla Extract (Vanilla Bean in vodka) This stuff has a nice bite to it and I was VERY pleased with the result. It has a complex collection of flavors…
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Tonight was the much anticipated bottling of my Hefeweizen! I was able to ferment this at a solid 71. Its on the higher end of the fermentation range for my yeast, but it did exactly what i wanted it to. It had some really fantastic Banana hints with minimal clove. The bittering was so subtle…
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With my friend still in town I had to show him the brew process. He forced me to do it folks… honest… it was really rough…I took the whole process fairly slowly so he could see what I was doing and why, in addition he and another coworker were able to sample the components as…
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Created a test batch of what could be either really tasty or really medicinally vile. Wanted to create a combination of honey cider with what I had around the house. Instead of honey I used Agave nectar. The total Bill looks a bit like the following (note sugar is a bit higher than probably necessary…
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After a couple of years of being pretty serious about beer, off and on home-brewing and getting really into it (addicted really) recently this year; it is always nice to be able to push myself further. In this case I attended my first meeting of QUAFF: Quality Ale and Fermentation Fraternity a San Diego, CA…
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So, this batch has been a thorn in my side and cause of much anxious anxiety. Not only has it been a slow fermentation, but it has had a krausen layer that seems to be like an unwanted house guest. The gravity finally hit where I wanted it for FG and I bottled underneath the…
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Took a nice evening to recover after a pretty crazy month and headed on down to Slaters 50/50 with some friends of mine. Besides Baconized Burgers and a glass of Delirium Nocturnum, I was able to enjoy the pleasure of some good ol fashion penny saving by making home made Wort Chillers. We saved a…
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