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Finally, I'm getting back into brewing after taking a couple years off. Having children really seemed to eat up most of my free time. I'll be happy to brew once a month or so, at least I'm brewing.
My goals for 2011 are to enter as many brewing competions as possible. Mainly I want to get some feedback from judges so I know what to work on to improve my beers. I finally have all the equipment set up exactly how I want it. Now I need to concentrate on recipe creation and brewing processes.
Enter my world of home brewing. Follow me as I go through my brewing equipment and beer making process from start to finish.
You can click any picture below to jump to that step if you want.
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| History | Office | Yeast | Grain | Mill | HLT | Mash Tun |
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| Kettle | Chilling | Fermenting | Conditioning | Serving | Cleanup |
Here are a few of the fun beer gadgets I've made.
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| Draft box | Golf Bag | Mini Keg | Glycol Chiller |
In an attempt to streamline my brewing process and figure out exactly how long it takes to brew I created an excel sheet. The sheet has all my brewing steps and by double clicking the box next to the step it automatically records the time and calculates the total time from start. There are two files included, one is larger but compatible with older excel versions, the smaller one will only work on excel 2007. You can change, add, and remove tasks to suit your brewing process. Click the link below to download.
Here are a couple images of a real nice brewing poster that has tons of formulas and conversions for brewing. Right click on the size you want and click "save target as".
Well, that's about it for now, if you have any questions feel free to email me. Thanks for looking!