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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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