September 2016 Archives - Brew Your Own

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Build a Portable Keg Cooler

Take your kegged homebrew on the road with you without having to worry about refrigeration with this nifty portable keg cooler.

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Iechyd Da Brewing Company: Walloon Belgian Dark Strong clone

This Belgian dark strong ale is brewed with dark candi syrup and dark malts to create a beautiful dark amber ale with sweet, toffee-like aromas.

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New Pumpkin Beer Styles

The leaves will soon be changing, the air is getting crisp, and pub brewers everywhere cringe as they clean pumpkin goo from their mash tuns for the eighth time already! Thirty years

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Scrub Your Way to Better Beer

I’ve said many times that primarily a brewer is a cleaner, nothing more. For no matter how good your brewing skills, if you don’t clean your equipment thoroughly you will produce infected

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Brewing with Apples

Just as cooking with fresh seasonal produce enhances the flavors in food, the same is true of beer. Freshly harvested plants, from peaches to pecans, are leaps and bounds more flavorful and

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Judging Off Flavors

Beer is cacophony of flavor. There are over 500 flavor compounds in hops alone, and the other three basic ingredients of water, grain, and yeast add many hundreds more. As we combine

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Erin Go Brew: Homebrewing & Craft Beer in Ireland

Matt Dick, the Founder of Boundary Brewing in Belfast, was one of the first brewers to sit for a Beer Judge Certification exam in Ireland in 2013. Since then, he and others

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Brewing Irish Classic Beer Styles

Ireland was ruled by Britain for centuries, and the north of Ireland still remains a part of Great Britain. But it is worth pointing out that it was the Normans who first

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Prohibition-Era Homebrew Club

Next time you go to a homebrew club meeting, take a look around. You will see friends and people who share a passion for crafting beer at home. More important, you do

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Airlock Suck Back, Bottling Carbonated Beer: Mr. Wizard

Q When cold crashing or lagering beer from a relatively warmer temperature to a colder one, negative pressure of condensed air in the headspace can draw in liquid and air through the

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Brewing Irish Dry Stout: Tips from the Pros

Don’t judge a beer by its color. Not all dark beers are heavy and high in alcohol. Dry stout (also known as Irish stout) is usually 4–5% ABV, has a light body

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Iechyd Da Brewing Co.’s Walloon Belgian Dark Strong clone: Replicator

Dear Replicator, I have spent many days traveling for work to Elkhart, Indiana. One of the best parts of the trip is visiting Iechyd Da Brewing Company for one of their many great brews. The best

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