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Category: Brewing

March 15, 2022

The BeerBorg Forum is Back

by LouieMacGoo
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It has been a long two weeks and there’s been a lot of sweat, tears, and curse words shed trying to get both the main pages of BeerBorg back up and getting the forum back online. Funny how one small change can bring down a whole site. Anyway, I won’t go into the gory details here as I’m sure you would rather grab a beer and scroll through the forum looking for posts from other homebrewers. Just know that the forum is back up and running. You may notice some changes since we had to upgrade to the newest version […]

March 4, 2022

Forum Status

by LouieMacGoo
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As you may have seen, the website went down in February 26th. There was some type of database issue that caused not only Beerborg.com to go down but several other websites that are hosted by the same company. I have been working all week to get the site back up and running and I hope to have the forum back soon. Thank you for your patience and RDWHAHB! While we continue to work on this you can check out our Facebook page or Instagram feed or see if there someone in the Tap Room. I’ll post more updates here as […]

March 17, 2019

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

by LouieMacGoo
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To all the homebrewers near and far may your sparge stay unstuck, your boil be strong, your mash always smell sweet, and your yeast be always active!

January 31, 2019

Hop Stand Bittering Units – HSBUs

by LouieMacGoo
Categories: Brewing, guide, Hops, how-to
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As homebrewers we are always looking at ways to improve our beer and gain consistency in our processes and brewing methods. Over the last year or so, possible due to the popularity of New England IPAs (NEIPAs) it seems like the use of hop stands has become a more prevalent method of adding bitterness, flavor, and aroma to our beer. One of the problems with this method is being able constantly determining how much bitterness and flavor you are actually getting from the hop stand especially across multiple batches of beer.

June 29, 2016

Gold Medal Winner – Traveling Irish Red

by LouieMacGoo
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This recipe took Gold in the 2016 King of the Mountain Homebrew Competition. In just 2 years Steve has received 9 medals in competitions for his homebrew recipes

June 16, 2016

North Port Pilsner

by LouieMacGoo
Categories: All Grain, Brewing, Recipes
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This Pilsner recipe from Steve is no exception a bronze medal winner at the 2014 Ohio Brew Week homebrew competition it is clean crisp and goes down smooth. If you’ve been looking for a good solid recipe to impress your family and friends this one will do the trick.

June 9, 2016

The Steamship Mathers

by LouieMacGoo
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Once again, Dawg LB Steve has offered up another medal winning recipe with his version of a California Common. This recipe earned Steve a bronze in the 2015 Son Of Brewzilla home brew competition and is an outstanding example of this style. This is a great, refreshing beer to enjoy on a hot summer’s day and will quickly find it’s way into your regular brewing rotation. Check out our other recipes here on the BeerBorg and make sure to visit Steve’s Facebook page, Montucky Brewing.