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A few weeks ago, we published a post about bottling from the kegerator. One of the reasons we wanted to bottle our kegged beer was to be able to enter the beer in a homebrewing contest at Side Gate, a local brewpub. And guess what – we won a medal! Here’s how the competition process…
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I’ve had this post kicking around in draft form for a month, so FINALLY here’s a recap of the Brewbegin’s Brew Day on February 3, 2024. Today we are brewing Lemon SMaSH IPA. That three-word moniker represents: The base recipe we are making today is a clone of Mai Tai from Alvarado Street Brewery. The…
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It’s fun having beer on tap in the house. We have a Komos three tap Kegerator. It was a heavily discounted return acquisition from More Beer. We think perhaps it was returned because it’s a bit noisy during cooling cycles – sounds like a spaceship landing in our living room. The upside of kegging beer…
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Our first brew highlighted some challenges inherent in our kitchen/equipment set-up. The first challenge we chose to address was the heat source. For our first brew, we purchased this 8.5 gallon kettle at More Beer. It’s a fine kettle and remains an important part of the equipment inventory. It is, however, LARGE. It barely fit…
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The latest beer on tap is an apricot Saison, brewed and kegged for Thanksgiving 2023. It was a hit with family and guests. According to Wikipedia, a saison is is a pale ale that is highly carbonated, fruity, spicy, and often bottle conditioned.[1] It was historically brewed with low alcohol levels, but modern productions of the style have moderate…
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On December 25, 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, Mom J gave her son, Brewmaster Z, a five-gallon beer making kit purchased from More Beer. You remember those days – we weren’t going much of anywhere or doing much of anything. We were bored and in need of a time-consuming distraction. And if a…
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