Tag Archives: fruit beer

It’s Not Lychee Enough

By 5thape | April 9, 2008

I spent most of the day today at home recovering from the effects of a $275 bar tab we rang up last night watching the NCAA basketball championship at Busby’s. This was between three people. I won’t be going out drinking for a while I think. Although I spent most of the [...]

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Brewing Purchases

By 5thape | March 5, 2007

No more eyeballing ingredients!
The digital scale I’d ordered last week finally came today! I got a pretty good deal, only $27 including S&H on eBay. It can weigh in grams, kilograms, pounds and ounces up to 55 lbs. Trying to eyeball and separate 12 pounds of LME out of a 20 pound jug is a [...]

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Extract Brewing Plus Mini-Mash

By 5thape | February 26, 2007

Today I moved a step closer to all-grain brewing. I started with extracts, then moved onto extracts with specialty grains and today I did an extract with a mini-mash. If beer were lemonade think of liquid/dry malt extracts as the concentrate/powder, just add water. All-grain brewing is like taking real lemons and fresh squeezing [...]

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