Monthly Archives: June 2008

Adventures in Blow-Off Tubes

By Brian Glenn | Published: 2008-06-30
I’ve never actually made a beer that required a blow-off tube, but I recently received some German hefeweizen yeast from Allen in the Lakeside Brewers’ Guild, which he said would easily clog up a traditional airlock. Because the beer my wife made was still in my plastic primary fermenter, I decided to get really crazy [...]
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Trellises, Bottled Wit, and Future Brewing Plans

By Brian Glenn | Published: 2008-06-10
It finally got hot outside, so it started to make me think about getting the trellises for the hops up. In about three hours and seventy dollars, I managed to get some trellises up that should support my meager hops bed. But I am getting ahead of myself, because I really should talk about the [...]
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