Winexpert is about to release some limited edition cocktail kits, homebrew4less.com is currently taking pre-orders at special pricing for these items, they will begin shipping in April, 2010. This April 2010, Winexpert will introduce an exciting and delicious new addition to the Winexpert Island Mist family: Twisted
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Specific gravity is a measure of the density of a liquid. Distilledwater has a specific gravity of 1.000 at 60F(15C) and is used as abaseline. The specific gravity of beer measured before fermentationis called its Original Gravity or OG and sometimes its StartingGravity (SG). This gives an idea of how
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Moving Day So you have devised the perfect Porter, hit all your temps and volumes, pitched a beautiful yeast starter and held
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Fermentation and Bottling Made Easy If you are anything like me, you probably started out your home brewing 'career' by reading a few books and
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Rather than washing the stone in chlorine solution, soak the stone for a few hours in vodka. These stones seem to hold chlorine rather well, as a tank of dead fish proved a few years back. I probably get a little alcohol in the wort, but I avoid any
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While brewers like to claim that theymake beer, it is actually the yeastthat turn our prepared sugar solution intoan alcoholic beverage. During this processwe brewers mostly wait—although someamount of watching is useful as well. Thisarticle discusses fermentation and your roleas the brewer. It begins by describing amore desirable technique for
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The Yeast Starter A yeast starter is a method of preparing your yeast for fermentation by introducing your yeast to a small amount of wort before fermentation in order to encourage yeast cell multiplication to create an optimum amount of healty, ready-to-go yeast
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