The University of Wisconsin will offer a class in home brewing next semester and not surprisingly, students are scrambling to sign up. I wish there had a home brewing class when I was in college.
Of course Wisconsin has a long history of brewing beer, especially Milwaukee. This may or may not have anything to do [...]

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So, in what has now become a quest to get my first home brew done, I have been doing lots of reading and research. Twitter and the Craft Brewing population therein have been essential to that. One twitter user has something the has captured my interest strongly with this post
“- basicbrewing Brewer’s Logbooks are at [...]

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Mr. Beer really comes through with making this easy.   After brewing my first batch of beer and two weeks of waiting patiently for it to ferment in the Mr. beer keg, I couldn’t wait to bottle it up.
Just to recap, I have half the no-rinse sanitizer left over and the gallon spring water jug I [...]

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After the set up and brewing, honestly this was the easiest part.  Simply put, there was no physical labor, just waiting.  I was pleasantly surprised that the closet the brew was living in didn’t smell like a brewery. In fact, very little beer odor was detectable, and I really had to get my nose up [...]

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My favorite time of the year is Fall. The weather gets cooler, the days shorter, and pumpkins magically appear at the supermarket. That means it’s time to brew some pumpkin beer!
I have never brewed a pumpkin beer so this will be a learning experience. I bought a pumpkin ale ingredient kit from Austin Homebrew Supply [...]

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What do you get when you cross a super-creative, Futurama-lovin’ hacker with a beer lover? You get a life-size replica of Bender, everyone’s favorite “foul mouthed, cigar smoking, booze drinking, shiny metal [assed], bending robot,” that is also a fermenter for your home brew and talks as well! (Yes, that’s the TARDIS behind Bender. He [...]

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Michelob Brewing Co., a subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch, said Monday that it would kick off an advertising campaign, offer some seasonal varieties year-round, and bring some other A-B beers under the Michelob nameplate and give them all consistent, new packaging.
It looks like Anheuser-Busch is diving headlong into the craft beer market by branding several craft beers, [...]

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After 7 days in the primary fermenter and 4 days in the secondary (it should have been the other way around but my schedule didn’t allow it), it was time to bottle my Belgian dubbel. The following is a typical bottling day and I’ll explain each step in detail for the uninitiated.
I ferment in my [...]

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Mr. Beer Home Brewery promises to be easy and fun, and certainly the kit I received for review lived up to that. First things first, I eagerly unpacked the contents of the large, friendly box containing the Mr. Beer Premium Edition Home Brewery in my kitchen. In the box I found the promised [...]

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