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- 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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New Brewing Bling – 60 Litre conical fermentor
I had a flash new bit of brewing bling turn up on my doorstep today thanks to the chaps at Farra Engineering . It was not that I had splashed out on some fine new stainless steel, but rather that the … Continue reading
Recipe of my first brew – Zapa – Zane’s American Pale Ale Extract Recipe
This is the brew that got me into home brewing. It was pretty simple as it used malt extract from a can, but it was one step on from just using extract as I steeped some specialty grain and boiled … Continue reading
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Tagged american pale ale, APA, beer, brewing, craft beer, extract, home brew, homebrew, New Zealand
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My first cask conditioned real ale
My friends Charlie and Veronica are off overseas and had a party to farewell friends. Knowing Charlie is a big fan of cask conditioned real ale I offered to do a brew for the party that would be suitable to … Continue reading
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Tagged ale, beer, beer engine, brewing, cask, cask conditioned real ale, conditioned, craft beer, hand pump, handpump, home brew, homebrew, hops, malt, New Zealand, new zealand hops, NZ, NZ hops, pale ale, party, real, recipe, tasting, water, yeast
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2011 NZ National Home Brew Competition – Judging Day
This weekend past was the judging of the New Zealand National Homebrew Competition as organised by SOBA . http://nhc.soba.org.nz/ There were over 400 beers entered in the multitude of categories, which the organisers managed to collate and organise. I went along … Continue reading
Yeastie Stu likes my beer PKB 2011 Remix – Weetbix
Over here I talked about brewing the Yeastie Boys Pot Kettle Black 2011 Remix (Weemix). I sent Stu of Yeastie Boys a rigger of the brew I did of his recipe and this is what he thought http://lockerz.com/s/151463825 “Drinking “Weetbix” a … Continue reading
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Tagged beer, brewing, craft beer, dark, evaluation, home brew, homebrew, low alcohol, mild, New Zealand, new zealand hops, NZ, open source brewing, PKB Remix, Pot Kettle Black, recipe, session beer, tasting, Weemix, Weetbix, Yeastie Boys
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Hop monsters for hop heads – late hop additions to give big hop flavour and aroma
The key to getting big hop aroma and flavour in your beer is putting in large additions of late hops. Done right you will get a huge smooth hop character to your beer. There is quite a difference between the … Continue reading
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Tagged aroma, balance, beer, bitter, bittering, brewing, craft beer, flavour, floral, home brew, homebrew, hop head, hop monster, hops, how to brew, IPA, malt, New Zealand, new zealand hops, NZ hops, recipe, resinous, spicy, tasting
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Taste notes – Caspa
Thought I should chuck some tasting notes up for some of my beers. More as a record that I can go back to in the future when trying to remember specific characteristics. Tasted 18.10.2011 – Bottled 18.09.2011 New Zealand Pale … Continue reading
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Tagged APA, beer, craft beer, evaluation, home brew, homebrew, hops, judging, judging beer, New Zealand, new zealand hops, NZ hops, NZPA, recipe, taste, tasting
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Key factors to making great beer at home
I feel like there is quite a funny reaction when you mention that you home brew beer. The words “Home Brew” seem to be automatically associated with some nasty tasting alcoholic substance that people tried years ago. Most likely brewed … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, beer, brewing, craft beer, home brew, homebrew, how to brew, how to brew great beer, key factors great brew, most important brewing advice, New Zealand, recipe, sanitising, sanitizer, setup, starting, temperature control, tips, yeast culture
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NZ vs Imported hops
I love hops! They smell great, and they make beer taste fantastic. However getting hold of the hops you are after can sometimes be a bit hard. At the moment there is a big shortage on hops grown in the … Continue reading
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Tagged American hops, APA, brewing, craft beer, home brew, hop shortage, hops, IPA, new zealand hops, NZ hops
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New Zealand Home Brew Competition NHBC 2011
As I have not yet had much in the way of professional evaluation of the beer I have been brewing I figure I will enter a few beers in this years National Home Brew competition which is organised through the aptly … Continue reading
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Tagged beer, brewing, competition, craft beer, evaluate beer, evaluation, home brew, judging, New Zealand, NHBC 2011, NZ, SOBA
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