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Can LED Light Skunk Beer?

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Before I jump into this great question, I want to confess that I am feeling a bit skunky for being a bit behind on this column because I have been traveling too


Step Mashing Efficiency Vs. Infusion

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I have a solid explanation of what may be causing your problem but must admit that what follows includes one very big assumption. And that assumption is that your mashes typically drop


Blending Fruit Wine in Beer

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Sounds like you have access to some great stuff! Love the idea of blending fruit wine into beer and hope to give you some ideas on how to make this practical. Perhaps


Questioning Boil Duration

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Thanks for the great question, Darrell! This is not a topic I recall addressing and is certainly a modern brewing topic of interest. Before digging into your specific question about the relation


Calculating Ice Requirements For Wort Chilling

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Cold water tanks are commonplace in commercial breweries because they are handy reservoirs of cooling potential and help to spread the cooling load on refrigeration systems associated with wort cooling from as


Getting Into the Nitty Gritty on Apparent Attenuation

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This is a great question that touches on several topics. I’ll start with a brief description of what you already know about mashing. For a given malt, wort fermentability is a function


The Dynamics Of Lukr Faucets

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Lukr beer faucets, often referred to as “Lukrs,” have been popping up all over North America in recent years due to the rising popularity of traditional Pilsners and other lagers by beer-loving


Adding Magnesium Salts in Beer

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According to the article “Can You Take Too Much Magnesium” published on the Medical News Today website, the National Institutes of Health recommends 310–320 mg as the daily magnesium allowance for adult


Knowing Your Original Gravity

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This is a tough one. I had to put my thinking cap on before sitting down to write this response out. I need to get one thing clarified before I jump into


Hitting Your Target Final Gravity

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It’s always great reading questions for brewers in other countries and doing a bit of traveling with the internet. Gisborne looks like a beautiful place to enjoy a nice Pilsner and hopefully


Heating Up A Fermenter

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It’s always exciting to see questions coming in from around the world and realizing how homebrewing communication has truly become global. I assume that you have your chest freezer located somewhere without


Dry Yeast Advancements

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This is a great example of an advancement in the brewing world that has a real effect on the way home and commercial brewers go about brewing. When I was a young


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