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Pocket Randall Instructions - or How to Build Your Own Randall F*cker
Drew, Marshall and Josh talk about the Randall F*ckerThe Setup (aka Drew Talks)If you listened to Episode 42 of the podcast, you know that Marhsall Schott (Brülosophy) and I wandered around the...
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Something Other Than Beer - Toasted Cream
Listeners of the podcast will know that I'm terribly fond of cooking and doing silly things in the kitchen. Well thanks to a recent SeriousEats.com article (If You Like Brown Butter, You'll Love...
View ArticleDrew's Favorite Gin Recipes
Here you my fellow Gin heads! A few simple recipes to make the Gin flow...The Martini3 oz Gin (I like a 50/50 blend of Plymouth and Hendricks or 100% St. George's Terroir)0.25 oz Dolin Dry...
View ArticleDenny's Seafood Recipes
Beer Poached Salmon with Tarragon Mayo4 salmon steaks, 1-inch thick12 ounces beer (nothing too hoppy…I prefer Bitburger)2 tablespoons lemon juice1 medium onion, chopped1 celery stalk, chopped1 teaspoon...
View ArticleThe Saison Files - Tasting Yeast Bay, Fermentis and the Loral Canyon...
Time for another tasting! This time I'm going through two more Yeast Bay strains and Fermentis new dried Saison yeast - BE-134. And then, we get to taste the real humdinger - my Loral Canyon Saison...
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The Difficulty of Triangle Testings - A Practical Example
Let's talk the triangle test. You know that simple thing we try and do to prove that changes in brewing do or don't make a difference. We put a lot of stock in the conclusions of that test. What does...
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On The Bond Between Brewer & Feline & Vermin
Prepare yourself for a tale of waste... and cats.Brewers love to talk about ancient history, mostly in the form of the classic anthropological debate - bread or brew. But what about brewers and their...
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Shaken, not Stirred: The Stir Plate Myth Buster
IntroductionWhen I started to brew in early 1993, no one I knew used a stir plate. That count included all of the hardcore amateur brewers I knew at that point in time and throughout my first pass...
View ArticleTour the Grainfather G70
I've been fortunate to have a loaner Grainfather G70 to brew on the last couple months.Although I had some initial misgiving about using a system that can brew 15 gal. batches, I've found that the...
View ArticleYeast Cultures are Like Nuclear Weapons
Back in the bad old days, a home brewer was happy just to have a reliable yeast culture to pitch into his/her wort. The average home brewer today is no longer content with having access to yeast...
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