September 2001 Archives - Brew Your Own

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Harpoon Brewery: Harpoon IPA

This Harpoon classic started out as a summer seasonal in 1993 and ended up becoming one of the brewery’s biggest sellers. It is a crisp, clean, fairly traditional English IPA that will always be in style.

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Big Sky Brewing’s Slow Elk Oatmeal Stout clone

According to Big Sky Brewing’s website, “Enjoy the creamy texture, great malt complexity and the unequaled smoothness of this Northern Rockies Oatmeal Stout.”

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Refurbishing Corny Kegs

Learn how to make an old, tired "Corny" keg look and work like new.

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Understanding Enzymes

Many homebrewers find this question confusing, which is hardly surprising, since many commercial brewers don’t appear to truly understand it either! It is important to think of the mash as two distinct

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Plotting OG with a Graph

How to calculate specific gravity with a handy graph.

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Kölsch

OG = 1.040 to 1.048 FG = 1.008 to 1.013 IBUs = 16 to 30 SRM = 3.5 to 5 ABV = 4.0 to 5.0% Kölsch is the beer that put the

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Where do calories in beer come from?

There is really no reason to argue about this because you are both partially correct. An average 12-ounce serving of a “domestic-style” beer contains about 14 grams of ethanol and 11 grams

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Fluctuating mash temperatures

Mash temperature in all-grain brewing has a significant and demonstrable affect on beer flavor. In general, multi-temperature mash profiles incorporating temperature rests from 120* to 160* F will produce more fermentable worts

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