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Making Beer, Part One

It was bound to happen: making bread and drinking beer leads to making beer.  They aren’t that different, bread and beer.  One’s liquid and both are delicious.  My wife got me a beer-making kit from Brooklyn Brew Shop.  The flavor:

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Do a Barrel Roll!

I’ve been chastised by my brother for featuring “girly” beers on my blog recently.  Well, excuse me for wanting to drink my beer from a miniature porcelain teacup featuring images of dancing Pomeranians wearing hats and booties!  Excuse me for

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Almanac Beer: Honey Saison

This is a great time to be drinking beer.  I don’t mean right now, in the morning, I mean this year.  The United States is in the midst of a beer boom, with more micro-breweries popping up every day.  And

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Hangar 24 Gourdgeous – A Review

They’re everywhere now, clogging the endcaps at your grocery store, pushing regular beers out of the way with gaudy orange and black signage:  pumpkin beers.  Most are regular beers with some fake pumpkin flavoring added.  And let’s really dig into

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Stout Bread

Living in Southern California I’ve had to give up on the idea of autumn as I experienced it back East:  the echo of birds racing through a quickly denuding forest, the shush of crackly leaves up to your ankles, the

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San Diego Bakers?

There are groups for knitters, Koala lovers, Pullman train enthusiasts, underwater basket weavers, but nothing in the San Diego area for bakers.  So I’m trying to start up a group here in San Diego of folks young and old, experienced

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Watta Watta Weekend

Memorial Day weekend is for barbecues, running and laughing with friends, and hard labor.  I added that last one so I can feel better, though the crick in my neck and twinge in my shoulder says otherwise.  Friday was a

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Living Bread

Okay, I think I’m getting it now.  The more I read about starters, bigas, sponges, and poolishes, I can see how working with yeast is like gardening.  Starting with tiny seeds you can create bounty, flavor, life.  This is why

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