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Welcome to the fascinating world of home brewing. The oldest known recipe in the world is for beer and it dates back 5,000 years. We pride ourselves in helping home brewers achieve success in their fermentations. Beginning brewing is simple and fun and we have designed this website to help you find the information you need as well as the products you need so you can get started.
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Once you have brewed one or two batches of our starter kits you will become familiar with the basic process and will be ready to move past kits in no time. You can then begin designing your own recipes or have us find you one in our database of over 300 recipes. Once you begin brewing and become comfortable with this hobby, the more fascinating it will become. Brewing is relatively easy to do right away, but you can spend the rest of your life refining the process.
Our 32 page catalog/newsletter will get you started with instructions for beginners, starter
equipment kits to make 5 gallons as low as $79.95 and our
own award winning ingredient kits starting at $25.95.
We're here to show you the way. Call us today for a free catalog 800 544-1867 or for advice 707 544-2520.
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| BEER RECIPES |
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Website updates in progress. Please check back soon for additional recipes on this page.
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| BREWING ARTICLES |
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Once you have the right equipment and ingredients, you're ready to make delicious, handcrafted beer using the following time-honored process!
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One of the most important aspects of any fermentation is keeping your equipment sanitary. This article outlines the basic steps and products for keeping it clean.
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With six easy steps, your beer will be
all set for carbonating in the bottle.
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A reference guide for brewing malts including base malts, specialty malts, as well as non-barley malts
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Greg Noonan has been brewing for a number of years, but he really burst on the national homebrew scene in 1986 with the publication of his book, Brewing Lager Beer. This book discussed such topics as water treatment and decoction mashing in ways home brewing literature had not yet experienced.
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Most brewers don't worry about the fine points of water treatment until they become somewhat advanced. However, those who do venture into this area often find the rewards significant.
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It's a temptation to lump all beginning home brewers together as a single entity, the 'beginning brewer', but experience tells me no such stereotype exists.
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Not only do these kegs match our normal batch size,
unlike regular beer kegs, but maintaining them requires only a
few common tools, rather than the specialized tools needed for
beer kegs.
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We wanted two beers that would fully qualify as
distinct under the 2004 style guidelines of the Beer Judge Certification
Program—www.BJCP.org—from the combined runnings all boiled together. How
to do it?
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My answer is a resounding, “Yes, but…”
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