Homebrewing. Simple. Stir Plate optional. web page on stir plate: www.donosborn.com Some links on harvesting yeast after primary fermentation: www.donosborn.com www.flickr.com

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A couple tips and tricks to get the most out of your grain when brewing higher gravity beers with a batch sparge system. FYI - the efficiency for this batch came in at 75%, not bad at all for a high gravity batch sparge mash and boil. www.donosborn.com

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Dorky but functional guide to easy all grain brewing. Extract brewers, you can do it! I follow the Denny Conn method of batch sparging. *** Please Note - you DO return the vorlauf wort back into the mash tun. I did not film this step. **** More details and guides to building some of this equipment: www.donosborn.com

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This idea was first presented to me by some steps that Wyeast used to have on their website years ago. Currently, I followed this excellent video: billybrew.com This is the beer for which I am harvesting the yeast/critters in this video. You can see it is somewhat of a special thing (Russian River Sanctification) and I hope to re-use and/or share the bugs with someone else, just like my friend in Denver shared with me in the first place. www.donosborn.com

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Not the only way to do it, but it's my way of kegging homebrew. I also bottle a few bottles at kegging time. There are other videos and web pages with more details about taking kegs all apart so I didn't include that. More details about my keg setup and beer fridge: www.donosborn.com www.donosborn.com Feel free to post/send any comments. cheers.

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Little bit of everything, picking, drying, vacuum sealing. Cascades and Centennial hops in St. Paul MN.

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Not the only way, but this works for me and it will not only save you some money, but give you more than enough yeast. Update - this is what it looked like the morning after: www.flickr.com more details and pics: www.donosborn.com www.donosborn.com

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Homebrew Wednesday. :) Read about this technique in the November 2011 Brew Your Own magazine. It is said to be particularly good for lower gravity beers, and/or ones for which you want to feature the malt character. The malt character is said to somehow be richer or better than when you do a normal sparge beer (either batch or fly). Also, it is said you might save a little bit of time, but I found that with batch sparging, the time savings is probably marginal. With 10 lbs of grain I ended up with 5.1 gallons of 1.048 beer. That is only slightly less than I would expect to get WITH a sparge. Interesting. (I say 1.050 in this vid but forgot that I have to correct for my hydrometer which is 2 pts off). Here is the Northern Brewer recipe page: www.northernbrewer.com Here is my Brew Log entry: www.donosborn.com

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A couple tips and tricks to get the most out of your grain when brewing higher gravity beers with a batch sparge system. FYI - the efficiency for this batch came in at 75%, not bad at all for a high gravity batch sparge mash and boil. www.donosborn.com

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Drilling a hole for CO2 line, and holes for the shanks and faucets. I already had all of this stuff but had to set this fridge up to take them. I have Corny kegs. I made a platform for the inside bottom as well. Hopefully it will give some of you some ideas for making your own. Cheers. More details about the hardware I use can be found on the original faucet installation page: www.donosborn.com

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[Original postdate: May 20, 2011] In this episode, Chip brews a low-gravity saison. With the help of a rather unique setup, he pushes primary fermentation into the upper ranger of temperature. Guest host Don Osborn helps Chip demonstrate other methods homebrewers can use to raise the temperature during primary fermentation. Then, we join Michael and Jake for a quick tasting notes session on the kellerbier version of the double decoction dunkel brewed back in Episode 34. And how about a Brewing TV Sing-Along!?

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'Tis the season for brewing and fermenting lagers. But what if you don't have the set-up for true lagering process (fermenting fridge, near-freezing basement, etc.)? Brewing TV says "Fake the funk!" In this episode, Dawson and our cohort Don Osborn brew up three beers. They use some yeast strain and temperature workarounds to make them into great non-lagers. [Original postdate: January 13, 2012]

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www.donosborn.com Jan 15, 2011. First batch of the year. About 5 deg outside. Had my little helper for a bit. Everything went well. Ended up with 5 gallons of 1.055 beer. The guitar got out of tune from being moved out in the cold. :(

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"A Quick One While He's Away" Super rocking rendition that I had to share.

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This turned out great. Not sure what exactly the no sparge element added, but I will continue to make a few to see if it makes a difference. www.donosborn.com

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"A Quick One While He's Away" Super rocking rendition that I had to share.

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I grow Centennial and Cascade hops. Here is the Cascade harvest with help from my girls. Music by Papas Fritas.

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Just showing the peeps how the little Zig Zag rolling machine works.

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www.donosborn.com Added 5ml lactic acid to one gallon, and 15 ml to another gallon. Results of both were enjoyable and enlightening.

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Making a homebrew stir plate. I needed one of these magnets. Mine came off pretty easily using this method. I retrieved two magnets from an old hard drive.

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SMASH = Singe malt and single hop. Also, I continue to experiment with No Sparge, which doesn't seem to make a lot of difference in efficiency when using 10-11 lbs of grain (or maybe less) on my system. www.donosborn.com

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Thanks to my great volunteer hop pickers! You saved me so many hours of work. This is my first ever wet hop beer. Few pictures: www.flickr.com Brew Log entry: www.donosborn.com

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First time I tried to naturally carbonate a beer in the keg. After two weeks it has decent carbonation.

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I have been growing hops in the backyard since 2005, and I built this trellis in the front yard in 2008. Now in their 4th year of transplant, the Centennial hops at the left are doing quite well. A year or so ago I also planted some on the right side. They have yet to really mature. Maybe in 2012 this will be totally covered in hops. Harvest time is coming up soon! I'm going to make a wet hop beer for the first time. I will try to take some vids. cheers. www.donosborn.com

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I used Simcoe, Centennial and Columbus as directed by Vinnie himself in the Zymury homebrew clone. This thing tasted great going into the secondary. I am hoping for a super bright 8.5% alc hop monster! I will know in a couple weeks. details: www.donosborn.com Here is the tasting vid: www.youtube.com

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My brothers and Dad and I went to see what could have been Favre's last game, January 1, 2006. Here is a extremely amateur (but charming?) "film" I made along the way.

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Surly Brewing. Darkness 750ml sale, first time ever. Snow. Cold.

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Surly Brewing. Darkness 750ml sale, first time ever. Snow. Cold. Interviews with Omar. Was going to ask about how they bottled Darkness but didn't get a chance.

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Three guys shirk all responsibilities and go and drink some gosh darn beer at premier Midwest breweries and brewpubs. Ale Asylum, Flossmoor Station, Three Floyds.

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Surly Furious showdown! The recipe was created with direct help from head Surly brewer Todd Haug. Here are my recipe details: www.donosborn.com

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I followed instructions in Zymurgy and BYO (and the internet) and made this box. More details on my website. Donsborn(dot)com.

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My clone of Russian River's awesome double IPA was ready to be compared to the real thing. The color of mine is darker. One unknown is I did not pull the ingredients myself, so if I truly got the ingredients that I requested, I would have thought it would be a touch lighter. However, there is .6 lbs of Medium Crystal and even that much will give it some darkness. The taste is not super similar, but generally similar in the sense that both are very bitter and yet balanced beers with good hop aroma. My hop aroma was probably slightly greater but there could be reasons for that (the bottle could be older than my clone, for one). And mine had a fuller mouthfeel, which sort of makes it more balanced overall. Both are good. Mine is a heck of a lot cheaper though! You can make it for less than $1/12 oz pour. www.donosborn.com

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We got some samples of this unbelievable beer at the Great Taste of the Midwest 2006. Man was it awesome.

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Thought I would throw up this link so you guys who might not know about BTV could be introduced. Subscribe to their YT channel if you haven't! :) cheers Episode link: www.northernbrewer.com BTV's Youtube channel: www.youtube.com

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So nice of you Bernie! Thanks again.

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Three guys shirk all responsibilities and go and drink some gosh darn beer at premier Midwest breweries and brewpubs. Shoreline Brewery, Warren Dunes State Park, The Livery

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Oct 25. I am a dork and was too late to get a wristband. But, I still got Darkness thanks to some friends.

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