Category Archives: Homebrewing

Revenge of Mt. Hood

By Brian Glenn | Published: 2009-05-09
Mt. Hood hops are growing again, already better than last year's entire season.
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BBR-BYO Brewing Experiment 1: Update 1

By Brian Glenn | Published: 2009-04-19
It has been 13 days since I put the original beer into the fermenter, so it was time to crack it open and get half of it moved over to “secondary.” The beer tastes pretty good, but there was a disturbing amount of funk that came off the top when I opened the pail. The [...]
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BBR-BYO Brewing Experiment 1

By Brian Glenn | Published: 2009-04-06
Basic Brewing Radio and Brew Your Own Magazine are collaborating on a set of brewing experiments to test out some of that “common knowledge” among homebrewers. Dispelling myths is one of the aims of science, but when you dispel brewing myths, you get both knowledge and beer. How could I not participate? Especially when for [...]
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Patchwork Wheat: A Happy Accident

By Brian Glenn | Published: 2009-01-10
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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