• Ginger Beer (non-alcoholic)

    I’m still working on the real stuff. I’ll keep you updated.

     

  • Brewing Flowchart

    Everyone likes a flowchart… I think.

    This is one that I came up with as a quick reference when we first considered going all-grain. It’s not really the method we use, since brewing in a bag is much easier, especially on a small scale.  There are a lot of steps on this chart, but we skip about 1/3 of them. If you’re brewing from a kit, you’ll skip about half of them.

    Brew Flowchart

  • Brewing Equipment

    Putting together your brewing kit can be as expensive as you’d like it to be, but if you keep it simple, it doesn’t have to cost you a lot of money. Saving money on some of the items you’ll use may be made up in time, though.

    With the exception of a few items, most of this can probably be found in your kitchen. The rest of the items can be bought or made.

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  • Brew 9/5/13

    This was a fun, if hectic brew day. I should say brew night, as we got it done after work and it took us until about midnight! I had to run all the way back to my house to pick up the grain after I’d already arrived with all the other supplies at Phil’s house.

    Phil and I have been brewing together since 2009, sporadically. We launched into it with about $100 of equipment and a kit. We were some combination of too busy and too unmotivated to start brewing with all grain (rather than using pre-made malt extract) until last year. For various reasons, this was the first time we’ve brewed in about 6 months.

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