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On Friday I’ll be hanging out with Sloan and Albert who are making home-made sausages for the super bowl. It reminded me of this video:

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Well, I managed to pass the BJCP (Beer Judge Certification Program) exam. I’m officially in ‘recognized’ status. There are higher ranks of certified, national, master, grand master I, II, III but I’ll need more judging points before being eligible for those ranks. I’ll probably take the exam again next year as by then I should [...]

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Wyeast 1056 that is…
So I’m having a bit of a brewing extravaganza with my new equipment. 2 weeks ago I brewed an American Pale Ale with 2 lbs of Rye substituted in for 2-row. For this I used the ubiquitous Wyeast 1056 (chico) yeast. This last weekend I had a free Sunday afternoon and realized [...]

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A fellow homebrewer and member of the Worts showed me his awesome stir plate last night at a club meeting. The device uses a computer fan driven by a PWM circuit like this one based on the 555 controller. On the fan are mounted some magnets which then turn a stir bar inside an erlenmeyer flask. [...]

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I just picked up a couple 10 gallon Rubbermaid coolers on sale at Home Depot. 1 will be my hot liquor tank, and the other a Mash-Lauter Tun. My Phil’s rotating sparge arm just came in, so I’m excited to get this going. Hopefully I’ll be able to brew a batch by next weekend, if [...]

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The 2nd Annual ‘Pignic’ by the Boston based homebrew club the Wort Processors was a great success. The pig itself was 150 lbs and was put on the pit Friday morning. We ended up eating around 1:00 or so on Saturday. There was plenty of homebrew on hand and thanks to Lenny of the South [...]

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on tap at home…, originally uploaded by dafreat.

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