Monday, February 28, 2011

Beer Brewing Books

Featured home brew beer:
Home Brew Beer Recipes - Easy to Follow Step by Step Instruction To Brew Your Own Beer (Do It Yourself Fun Hobby Series)Learn How To Make Whiskey, Wine & Home Brew BeerBeer Recipes for Beginning Brewmasters: Over 500 Beer Making RecipesAll About Home Beer BrewingBrew Your Own Beer - 647 pageD.I.Y. Home Beer Brewing Guide For BeginnersMaster the Art of Brewing Your Own Beer
Home Brew Beer Recipes - Easy to Follow Step by Step Instruction To Brew Your Own Beer (Do

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Beer Brewing Supplies

Featured home brew beer:
Learn How To Make Whiskey, Wine & Home Brew BeerTrue Brew Bavarian Hefeweizen Home Brew Beer Ingredient KitHome Brew Beer Recipes - Easy to Follow Step by Step Instruction To Brew Your Own Beer (Do It Yourself Fun Hobby Series)True Brew Brown Ale Home Brew Beer Ingredient KitBasic Home Brew Beer Brewing Kit with 5-gallon India Pale Ale (IPA) Beer Ingredients IncludedSilver Colored Polished Beer Bottle Caps (approximately 144 caps)Nut Brown Ale All Grain Advanced

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Sunday, February 27, 2011

Ab Hof Fair, Wieselburg, Austria

The Ab Hof fair is a fair targeting small producers, mainly farmers who add value to their products. You find stands selling everything for bee keeping, fruit processing, beer brewing, wine making, distilling, cheese making, meat processing and much more. On top of that it is a real Folk Fest. It is easy accesible, between Linz and Vienna and in Germany and Austria it is well known. I believe this concept can be tried in the UK too. Suppliers of labels, bottles etc, etc, are here. I am on

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Saturday, February 26, 2011

JW Lees Harvest Ale (2000 vintage) | Chad'z Beer Reviews #219

Season 8, episode 17. Originally aired 5 February 2010 BREWERYS DESCRIPTION & INFORMATION: Available filtered and pasteurised in 275ml dark glass bottles. Has appeared occasionally in cask. This fully fermented strong ale has been brewed by JW Lees as a celebration of the brewers art since 1985. Harvest Ale can be enjoyed now or laid down like a vintage wine for enjoyment in years to come. 11.5% ABV HOW THIS BEER RATES: Rate Beer: 99 (overall) 97 (style) www.ratebeer.com Beer Advocate:

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JW Lees Harvest Ale (2000 vintage) | Chad'z Beer Reviews #219

Season 8, episode 17. Originally aired 5 February 2010 BREWERYS DESCRIPTION & INFORMATION: Available filtered and pasteurised in 275ml dark glass bottles. Has appeared occasionally in cask. This fully fermented strong ale has been brewed by JW Lees as a celebration of the brewers art since 1985. Harvest Ale can be enjoyed now or laid down like a vintage wine for enjoyment in years to come. 11.5% ABV HOW THIS BEER RATES: Rate Beer: 99 (overall) 97 (style) www.ratebeer.com Beer Advocate:

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Winemaking on a Shoestring Budget

Join me today as I take you through the process of making wine with almost no money. There is about $5 in the material and then about $5 in the equipment. This really brought back memories of the first wine I made which was strawberry wine made in a plastic water

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Winemaking on a Shoestring Budget

Join me today as I take you through the process of making wine with almost no money. There is about $5 in the material and then about $5 in the equipment. This really brought back memories of the first wine I made which was strawberry wine made in a plastic water

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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

How To Make Kombucha Tea : How to Flavor Kombucha Tea

Learn how to flavor kombucha tea with expert brewing tips in this free medicinal healing video clip. Expert: Hannah Crum Bio: Hannah Crum has a workshop where she teaches how to make Kombucha, a drink from a mushroom for medicinal healing. Filmmaker: Nili

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How To Make Kombucha Tea : How to Flavor Kombucha Tea

Learn how to flavor kombucha tea with expert brewing tips in this free medicinal healing video clip. Expert: Hannah Crum Bio: Hannah Crum has a workshop where she teaches how to make Kombucha, a drink from a mushroom for medicinal healing. Filmmaker: Nili

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Amarone wine, Kyle Meyer, wine expert - Hot Legs - Winery Channel.tv

AMARONE from Italy - The name rolls off the tongue as wonderfully as it drinks! From the Veneto region of Northeastern Italy, this rich red wine is the product of a special wine making technique. Let Kyle tell you the

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Amarone wine, Kyle Meyer, wine expert - Hot Legs - Winery Channel.tv

AMARONE from Italy - The name rolls off the tongue as wonderfully as it drinks! From the Veneto region of Northeastern Italy, this rich red wine is the product of a special wine making technique. Let Kyle tell you the

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Sunday, February 20, 2011

Samuel Smith's Yorkshire Stingo | Chad'z Beer Reviews

Season 8, episode 23. Originally aired 20 February 2010 BREWERYS DESCRIPTION & INFORMATION: Stingo, traditional strong ale originating in the north of England, is mentioned in literature before 1700. Samuel Smiths Stingo melds the fine history of this style with the signature elegance of the brewery. Brewed from British malt and multiple hop varieties, Stingo is fermented in open-topped stone "Yorkshire Squares," with the Samuel Smith ale yeast strain. It is then aged for over

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Saturday, February 19, 2011

Red Baron Bottle Capper

The Red Baron Bottle Capper is the highest quality hand capper that we have found. Very durable plastic construction. Features a magnet to hold the bottle cap in place, and spring-loaded arms that make crimping a

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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Buon Vino Spray Wand

The Buon Vino Spray Wand is constructed of 4 feet of flexible tubing and a plastic tube with a spray tip. The spray wand shoots a strong jet of water to make cleaning out your equipment easier. Especially effective on carboys. A faucet adapter (sold separately) is needed to connect to your kitchen

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Advances in the Draft Beer System improve Profits and Keg Yiel

In the great world of commerce, new technologies are constantly being created to make life easier for us all. The enterprise of draft beer is no different. In the last few years, companies have made several advances that improve not only the quantity of draft beer but the quality as well. Self-cleaning beer taps systems have been developed as well as self-contained systems that are making life easier for the bartender as well as the consumer. This leads to increased profits for restaurant

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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

How to brew beer

These are clips from a DVD showing how to brew beer. Watch as I brew, keg, and bottle 2 batches of beer Approx 45 minutes of footage Includes: basic instructions, equipment required, care of equipment, how to fix common problems, kegging, bottling, much more! This homebrewing DVD covers the simple and successful methods Ive used since the early 90s, Ive never made a bad batch of beer or wine. Go to budstaxidermy.com for more

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brewing accident

yeast gone

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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Wine Making Kit Equipment

www.homebrewers.com - Learn what equipment goes into a wine making equipment kit at

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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

A Look Back at Beer Vessels

It is commonly known that beer has been around mankind for a long while. As beer itself changed, expanded, and improved, so did the way in which we actually got the beer to our mouths. Pottery, wood, stoneware, and even sewn up pieces of leather made up the earliest drinking vessels. As time went on, man witnessed small advancements in the quality of their beer receptacles. Early Europeans that lived during the time of the black plague saw the development of beer steins, which had a closed top

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