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01 August 2011
For many of today’s home brewers, their hobby has become an addiction. They have elaborate beer brewing equipment set ups and regularly brew either partial mash or all grain recipes. However, they had to start somewhere, and for many, it was a Mr Beer brewing machine. Unfortunately, many beer brewing snobs look down at the [...]
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01 August 2011
Stuck fermentation is basically a stop to the fermentation process before all the available sugars have been converted to CO2 and alcohol. You can drink the beer, but likely it will not taste too good. It is also dangerous to continue on with the home brewing process, to skip over the stuck fermentation, as this [...]
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01 August 2011
As you have probably read, when beer brewing it is important to keep oxygen away from your beer in order to avoid bacteria and germs which can contaminate and infect your beer. However, at one point in the beer brewing process it is critical to introduce oxygen. Once you have cooled the wort, you will [...]
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01 August 2011
Two common issues for home brewers that are first trying all grain brewing are low brewing efficiency and missing the proper mash temperature. Here is a quick look at common causes of these issues and what you can do to prevent it for better home brewing. Efficiency can be tricky for someone new to all [...]
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01 August 2011
In home brewing, sparging is the rinsing of the grain bed to extract as much of the sugars from the grain as possible without extracting mouth-puckering tannins from the grain husks. Sparging is done to extract the maximum amount of colors and flavors from the grains, and to maximize efficiency. There are many methods to [...]
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01 August 2011
Partial mashing, or mini mashing is the bridge between extract brewing and all grain brewing. Partial mash beer brewing is the next step beyond steeping grains. What makes partial mashing one step past steeping and just short of full mashing is two things. It is beyond steeping because you are adding mashable grains to the [...]
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