March-April 2016 Archives

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Build a Flight Serving Tray

A variety of homebrewed beers on tap is a great way to impress your family and friends. But, when your guests have to drive home afterwards, they likely aren’t going to be up for a pint of each selection. Enter the flight serving tray (or paddle). Conveniently holding sample size glasses, flight trays should be a part of every homebrewery that has a selection of brews to offer. Here, four homebrewers offer their own designs that you can use to build a flight tray of your own.

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Eddyline Brewing Company: River Runners Pale Ale clone

River Runners Pale Ale is a classic American pale ale with a bright, summery, fresh, fruity aroma and an easy-drinking quality.

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Build a Beer Flight Serving Tray

A variety of homebrewed beers on tap is a great way to impress your family and friends. But, when your guests have to drive home afterwards, they likely aren’t going to be

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Using Dry Yeast

It’s 1978 and I’m new to the USA. The only decent commercial beer I can get is Ballantine’s IPA and it is not always available. Fortunately in that year homebrewing was made

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Steeping & Soaking Grains

Steeping is the soaking of specialty malts, grains, and spices in water to extract flavors and aromas that we want to incorporate into our beer. It is, in essence, the making of

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Italian Homebrewing

As we homebrewers know, brewing your own beer has enjoyed a huge growth of interest over the past few decades. Homebrewing clubs have formed in every corner of America, and home-brewing supplies

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Make Award-Winning Session Beers

One of the trends of the past few years that I’ve welcomed is the rediscovery of lower-alcohol craft beers. Perhaps it’s a reaction to the “imperial everything” trend or just consumers becoming

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Splitting Homebrew Batches

It’s an old tale. You met at the local homebrew shop. You’ve been together for a long time, and you’ve been through a lot together. At the start it was like being

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Brewing with Citrus Fruit

As the craft beer and homebrewing movement continues to grow around the world so does the variety of fermented beverages and the ingredients that go into them. Some of the unusual ingredients

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American Strong Ale

by the numbers OG: 1.062-1.090 FG:1.014-1.024 SRM:7-19 IBU:50-100 ABV:6.3-10 Beer styles are a funny thing. Some people claim they don’t exist, while others think they should never change. Fortunately, both groups are

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Freezing Glasses, Yeast Cultures & Priming Brett Beer: Mr. Wizard

Q I have found that reusing a previously used beer glass affects how much foam comes from pouring more beer into said glass. Typically I place my used glass back into my

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Brewing with Maple: Tips from the Pros

Nothing says spring in the Northeast, Upper Midwest, and Canada like the sight of smoke and steam rising from sugar shacks. Many automatically envision drizzling the sweet maple syrup being boiled down

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Eddyline Brewing River Runners Pale Ale: Replicator

Dear Replicator, My friends keep bothering me to make a clone of Eddyline Brewing’s River Runners Pale Ale, made in Colorado. My dear buddies always drink the six-packs they buy before they return

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Maple Beer

Maple Beer (5 gallons/19 L, extract with grains)OG = 1.041 FG = 1.010IBU = 13 SRM = 16 ABV = 5.1% The original gravity is calculated based on the estimated OG on

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