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How to Brew a Pumpkin Porter

Pumpkin Porter Recipe: 8 lbs Maris Otter 0.75 lbs Brown malt (thomas fawcett) 0.25 lbs Pale Chocolate (200 °L) 0.5 lbs chocolate malt (350 °L) 0.15 Victory malt 0.15 Black Patent malt 1 sugar pie pumpkin 1/2 butternut

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How to Brew a Dunkelweizen

I don't know if you've ever heard a brewer say "burn the BJCP guidelines"... The way I see it, the guidelines are like sheet music... you use them to learn the

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How to Brew a Northern German Altbier

To brew a Northern German Altbier, you can take a recipe from one of your favorite Amber ales... I used mine... ... and use a lager yeast strain like Wyeast 2112 California

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How to Brew a Maibock (Hellesbock)

I was watching a video on YouTube and someone made a comment about something that I think is very common when it comes to brewing software... They don't always calculate things

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How to Brew a Brown Porter

There are some beers you just can't get at home... at least not the true to style beers... Brown Porters is one of those beers... Like most exports, brown porters tend to

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Improving my Pumpkin Beer Recipe

I was once told that water at 99 °C would froth and shake a bit and was good for making teas, coffee, etc... but it was practically useless when it

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How to Brew a Bacon Beer

Well it's here! my Vanilla Bacon Cream ale... a creation that spawned while I was munching down a fried bacon sundae at Native New Yorker and my friend said "You

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How to Increase Malt Aroma Experiment

Greetings from Rancho 'El Borracho'... I was going over some old emails and I noticed one pattern... the #1 question I get is "is my beer ruined?" ... and going back through

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How to Brew a Belgian Blonde

A smooth beer that starts out with a slight Pils malt sweetness but finishes dry with a smooth alcohol aftertaste... and I mean smooth... The beer should have noble-hop-like spicy notes

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How To Brew An IPA

(Ditch the Airlock!) Every submariner goes through firefighter training... and because fires are possibly our biggest threats when out to sea, we had fire drills pretty much every week... so when

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