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Recent Posts
- New Brewing Bling – 60 Litre conical fermentor
- Recipe of my first brew – Zapa – Zane’s American Pale Ale Extract Recipe
- My first cask conditioned real ale
- Stoked! 2011 National Homebrew Competition Champion.
- 2011 NZ National Home Brew Competition – Judging Day
- Yeastie Stu likes my beer PKB 2011 Remix – Weetbix
- Hop monsters for hop heads – late hop additions to give big hop flavour and aroma
- Taste notes – Caspa
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Archives
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Beer Evaluation – Learn to professionally taste your beer
I believe that if you want to improve your brewing, one of the most important things you can do is to learn to evaluate beer in a professional way. You need to learn to evaluate beer in a descriptive and … Continue reading
Posted in beer evaluation, Brewing, Craft beer
Tagged beer, BJCP, craft beer, evaluate beer, evaluation, home brew, judging beer, tasting
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Adding olive oil to your brew!!??!?
When I first heard about people adding olive oil to their brew I thought that someone was having a joke. Then I read a bit more about it! To summarise. Yeast need oxygen to reproduce, which is why we aerate … Continue reading
Posted in Brewing, Craft beer
Tagged aeration, beer, brewing, home brew, Olive oil, yeast, yeast culture, yeast growth
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Getting set up to brew your own tasty beer
There is a lot of information out there, and many different ways to brew. This is an account of how I got set up to brew. How to Brew by John Palmer is a great online resource to get you … Continue reading
Posted in Brewing, Craft beer, Equipment
Tagged BIAB, Brew In A Bag, brewing, Brewing software, craft beer, equipment, home brew, how to brew, ingredient supplier, sanitising, sanitizer, setup, temperature control
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Weetbix – Brewing a Yeastie Boys PKB 2011 remix (Weemix)
Down the Brewery the other evening (the Cassels bar, not just out in my shed) I saw a label on one of the guest taps that I thought said “Weetbix”. I could not figure out why someone would name a … Continue reading
Posted in Brewing, Craft beer
Tagged low alcohol, open source brewing, PKB Remix, Pot Kettle Black, recipe, session beer, Weemix, Weetbix, Yeastie Boys
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Beer Serving Temperature Guide.
Good beer deserves to be served at the correct temperature! Stolen from here With all the different styles found in the world of beer, the question of serving temperature comes up fairly often. There are, however, very few absolute truths … Continue reading
Posted in beer evaluation, Craft beer, opinion
Tagged beer, craft beer, serving temperature
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It’s alive! Where it all started.
A beer brewing blog… well now that might not sound terribly exciting, and to be quite frank unless you are a beer brewing geek, it just might not be terribly exciting. Anyway I wanted somewhere to jot down what I … Continue reading
Beer brewing adventures with zymologist Zane 