Category Archives: Craft Beer

Reply from the Brewers’ Association

The Brewers' Association fixed the content on their website but was unreceptive to the platform problems of their USB drive.
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SAVOR 2009: The Second and Best So Far

I was fortunate once again to be able to travel to Washington, DC to attend the second SAVOR event held by the Brewers’ Association. This year the location was the National Building Museum, which had plenty more room than last year’s location. This meant less crowding and easier to see lines for all of the [...]
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Patchwork Wheat: A Happy Accident

I am way behind on my goings on with this hobby, but here goes the lightning headline round. The previous post was about making a wheat beer from a commercial growler. The brew day went well other than getting some whole leaf hops stuck in my siphon. I realized only after I took the original [...]
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Starter from Commercial Dregs

I am working on a starter from the settled yeast in East End Brewing’s Hefeweizen. 3 oz of DME in a quart of water, boiled for about ten minutes. The fun part is doing it in East End’s growler. I will be using this on a beer that has a lot of unusual ingredients from [...]
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