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Darkness in a Bottle

Ooh, I like the title of this post, it sounds like a noir film.  But really it’s all about very, very dark stout all bottled up.  As I bottled this I had a taste and I think this is going

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There’s Dark Beer and there’s DARK BEER

Holy crap!  I’ve somehow made a black hole in the beer closet!  This isn’t just any dark beer, it’s chocolate cream stout.  Somewhere in that square fermenter is a bag of cocoa nibs, some cocoa-soaked rum, and vanilla extract.  But

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Brewing Stockpile

Now I know how the squirrel feels.  With the warmth of summer still hanging in the air like the last note of a concert before the applause, the days growing darker but the cold not yet drawing the heat away.

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Brew Daze

Apologies for the punny title, I was inspired by a liquor store near my office called, sadly, “Happy Daze Liquors”.  It seems like a name that would’ve been funny during the Great Depression but now stirs up the tut-tutters.  What’s

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Bubble, Bubble, Toil, and Guzzle

Home brewing is a hedonist’s dream.  Whatever your taste, your required quantity, your preferred bottle shape, it’s all under your control, o puppetmaster.  But homebrewing is a hell for the impatient.  You think once fermenting is done that you can

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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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