Yearly Archives: 2013

5 Tips to a New Home Brewer!

Tip #1 – It’s all about Kegs Man! (but don’t abandon bottling) to build-up your cellar reserves.  All brewers will quickly realize that it takes quite a bit of time to do a brew session (all day) and later even … Continue reading

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Brown Ale – All Grain Recipe

2015 brew: this year we brewed it again but we decided to split the batch in half and treat one with American Oak chips.  The beer came out fantastic with a smooth velvet clean taste, the oak came through slightly … Continue reading

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Kodiak’s British ESB Pumpkin Porter

2014 Rapsberry Porter Version below (the beer was only 3 weeks old, looked great and tasted great!) 2013 Pumpkin Porter Version below: A 5 gallon batch recipe for a nice Pumpkin Porter, based on the recipe of a Edmund Fitzgerald … Continue reading

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Preparing your own pumpkin for beer brew day

Each pumpkin will give you lots and lots of seeds, more than you will ever need. Pumpkin Ale – is a special type of beer, highly in demand, for the good stuff! The best fastest way is to buy canned … Continue reading

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Beer Hops growing from start to finish, with pictures…

This short post shows with lots of pictures the progression of growing a hop plant, harvesting hops and drying them out. Remember!!! – Hops are deadly to Dogs, so keep them away from your pets at all times, through all … Continue reading

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Howto convert a beer keg into a Fermentor, 15.5 gallons

If you have an extra standard beer keg, with a little effort, you can turn it into a 15.5 gallon stainless steel fermentor.  In this video I show you how I did it.  Benefits are the adoption of something existing … Continue reading

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Portable Home Beer Brew Pump March/Chugger ON/OFF switch with GFIC protection

Tips: 1) make sure that the pump you get does not have a one-way-rubber-valve installed on the inside of the output plumbing… this will put a resistance on the output and reduce your flow considerably… by more than half!!! 2) … Continue reading

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Belgian Abbey Ale – 5/10 + gallon batch

Above picture was taken on a frosty November morning 11/23/2013. Belgian beer in general needs to be aged properly for longer than your average, we recommend at least a good 3 months, you will noticed the beer get considerably better … Continue reading

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Part II – How To Grow Hops Tip

One way to grow hops in your back yard, non-commercial setup for private use. Hops are bines and they like to climb.  We use a cow field panel flipped on its side and we used a grinding cutter to shorten … Continue reading

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Hop roots – Rhizomes ( grow your own hops )

  roots: roots into plant, babies: prior years planting (hops come back every year):   Hop rhizomes are basically the roots of a hop plant.  Brew stores sell these in the Spring. My local brew stores had about a dozen … Continue reading

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