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Let Your Beer Grow Up

A little age isn’t a bad thing.  Take a look at the smoked wheat after it had some extra time in the fridge to settle: And it’s not just the color that improved.  The flavors really matured, blended, and mellowed.

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Lemongrass Wheat Beer

New beer is on the way!  Last weekend I made a batch of wheat ale and decided to go off-recipe and try my own thing.  Yes, this is the part of the story where Uncle F#*k-Up makes an appearance.  But

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Making Beer, Part Two

Once you’ve made beer, what do you do with the grains?  If you run your own CAFO (concentrated animal feeding operation) you can use tanker trucks to deliver thousands of tons of spent grain mash to your metropolis of pigs

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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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