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Author Archives: ray kodiak
How To Transfer beer between 2 Kegs
How To Transfer beer between 2 Kegs, video link below: Tip: Using the Out for both Kegs, prevents beer foaming into the incoming keg as the beer fills in slowly from the bottom of the keg. If you connect into … Continue reading
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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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