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January 10, 2013
Some General Rules About Grains
Was at the LHBS chatting with the Local… and we started talking about grains and what we could do with them…more for informational purposes than anything else. So, as a General Rule: Any “Cara” or “Crystal” grains are “steepable”. So you don’t have to worry about a full blown Mash, just soak these in 150-ish water for at least 30 min. Dark Grains… Steepable… they’ve already been converted as it were. So trying to mash these, well.. um.. nah. You can get the same stuff your gonna get by just steeping them. As far as the rest of the […]
December 28, 2012
Words from the Beer Nong…Making Rot a Good thing.
I’ve been asked to add input to the Beer Borg site. I’m pretty happy to be doing that. This will be an introduction. I started brewing with Mr. Beer back in 2007. The wife insisted I get a hobby as she was tired of me running around looking for something to do. My original thinking was: “A Mr. Beer Kit? What the heck is that?” Long story short.. I got the kit. I figured what the heck, even if it’s a bust, it wasn’t costing that much. Silly me. After the first batch of Beer, I was hooked. I was […]
