Tag Archives: Homebrewing

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By 5thape | August 26, 2008

This post has gone through a couple drafts. I really hate reading blog rants. Using your blog as a forum to vent your frustrations about your personal and work life makes for horrible reading and it’s been a rule of mine never to do it on this blog. But since my last [...]

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2008 Southern California Homebrew Festival

By 5thape | May 7, 2008

Never have I drank so much beer over the course of a weekend. I drove up early Friday afternoon, the campsite at Lake Casitas was great, the weather was perfect and continued to be that way for the rest of the weekend. Our club, The F.E.R.M., shared a campsite with our sister-club, Crown [...]

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Down The Drain

By 5thape | April 16, 2008

Last night I poured six-gallons of the Belgian blonde down my kitchen sink. It’d been sitting in kegs inside my kitchen for the past week while I decided what to do with it. A part of me wanted to believe it could be salvaged but after tasting it again yesterday I knew it [...]

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Look What I Made!

By 5thape | March 30, 2007

I spent yesterday and this morning making my lauter/mash tun. Originally I was gonna use a rectangular cooler but I found out they no longer make normal coolers anymore. Remember the regular ones that were shaped like coffins, with only handles on the side and maybe a spigot on the bottom for the water to [...]

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Doug From Downey

By 5thape | March 13, 2007

A few weeks ago I tried to get in contact with a few local homebrewing clubs but never got a response. On Sunday I got a call while at church from Doug who was the head of a homebrewing club in Downey. He was brewing a batch that day and invited me to come over [...]

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