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04 September 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Kegging

On one hand, kegging sounds like a wonderous thing….no more cleaning bottles, no more waiting 3 weeks for carbonation, beer on tap! On the other hand, once you get your equipment, it can seem like a major pain in the butt to hook up everything right, carbonate to the right pressure, and avoid damaging your […]

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Introduction to Extract Brewing

This is an Intro into Extract Brewing. Pardon my writing skills, I only play an author on tv. Lets start with the major component, malt extract. Extract comes in two forms, dry and liquid, commonly referred to as Dry Malt Extract (DME) and Liquid Malt Extract (LME). Most first time brewers will buy beer kits […]

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Kit Beers

Kit Beers The box kits, in my opinion, are the best. They allow you the most control over the end product of all the extract kits (ie. you can change up the hops by adding more or less or different hops. You can add more extract to increase alcohol and body or less). The pre-hopped […]

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Convert A Keg

As I was in the process of explaining how to cut the top out of a half barrel keg to a fellow FCB member, it occured to me that possibly other would be kegerator makers could make use of some of the same information. The conversation started out like this. “Larry, didn’t I here you […]

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