Homebrewing Substitutions and Adjustments
Yesterday, after some bible (*) reading, I realized that making your own beer is like writing a book. First of all and before even starting, you already know how you’d like it to be, and you know there’s a long road ahead towards having it black on white. Then, after some time you get to
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Beer Glossary – Beer and Brewing Terminology
Home Brewing Glossary, where you will find terms used in some cases in other languages.
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Kumdis Island Spruce Beer
Kumdis Island Spruce was originally brewed with the fresh spring growth of tall Sitka spruce trees in the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia, Canada.
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Counterflow Wort Chiller
Luckily, one of my first acquisitions as a homebrewer was a Counterflow Wort Chiller.
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Silver Dollar Porter
The best porter either side of a silver dollar can buy – but you can’t buy it because it ain’t for sale. It’s homebrew and it’s yours. Lucky for you because there won’t be enough to go around as it is.
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Armenian Imperial Stout
One look at this recipe and you may think I’ve gone bonkers. Well I haven’t, but you may after putting your ever-loving lips to this most royal of stouts. A nearly 8 percent alcohol, very bittersweet and hoppy stout with a full-bodied, creamy-headed sensation that is a definite treasure among stout lovers.
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Dark Sleep Stout
Dark Sleep Stout is much heavier, richer and more bittersweet than a Guinness style of dry stout. It is akin to putting a fancy liqueur in your expresso.
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It is a Good Porter
This is a fun beer to brew. It offers you the opportunity to use everything but the kitchen sink as ingredients. Despite its free style it brews a deliciously well balanced, slightly sweet style of porter with interesting nuances. Believe it or not, all of the ingredients were traditionally used in the brewing of a porter hundreds of years ago.
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CraigTube Videos Part 4
Finally, this is the fourth and final stage in Craig’s process of “Home Brewing the Easy Way”. As for myself, I’ve just bought some malt extract to try something based on this recipe. I’ll let you know the results some time soon. Hope you can take some advantage of this method, and/or improve it to
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CraigTube Videos Part 3
Well, there it goes, the third part of CraigTube videos. This time on a pre-bottling stage, showing some theory. As Craig himself said, if you’ve already read something about brewing, skip this step. Soon, I’ll present my own version of this recipe, using basic ingredients.
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