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Jason Simmons
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Ferment What You Eat
Beer and other beverages aren’t the only things you can ferment at home. We outline the essential equipment and techniques to help you get
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Fermented Hot Sauce (Two Ways)
Ferment your own hot sauce with a basic recipe using your favorite hot peppers, or a habanero berry sauce with zing.
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Fermented Sauerkraut
One small cabbage and some salt will create a quart of delicious fermented sauerkraut.
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Fermented Pickles Recipe
By day 3 or 4 the pH should be below the 4.0 safety threshold, and by day 5 with a pH of around 3.3–3.6.
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Reusing Spent Hops
Hops added late in the boil, during whirlpool, or as dry hops retain a lot of their alpha acids when done being used for their initial purpo
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Spent Hop ESB
This ESB is brewed using 100% second-use fresh hops for a mellow bitterness.
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Growing and Brewing With Mushrooms
There is no one-flavor-fits-all when it comes to mushrooms. A brewer shares his experience growing and brewing with shiitake mushrooms that
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Lindgren Craft Brewery’s Narrow Gauge Shiitake Mushroom Saison Clone
This beer features what you would expect in a saison in regards to the malt and hops balance and the fruity esters and phenols derived from
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10 Must-Haves for Pros and Amateurs
The scale is different, however there is a lot of crossover in commercial craft brewing and homebrewing. A pro brewer who still keeps his ma
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Pennsylvania Swankey
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Lindgren Craft Brewery’s Clarks Ferry Swankey clone
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Historic Foraged Pennsylvania Swankey