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3... 2... 1.... Luftmalz!
Recently, I decided to try to make my own air-dried wheat malt. Now why would I be interested in doing that? Isn’t that a lot of work? Yes, it was. I won't pretend otherwise. The reason I would want to try that: history, of course! A Very Brief History of Malt Kilning In the old days, breweries by…
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Brewing Classic Berliner Weisse
What is "Classic" Berliner Weisse? That's a good question to ask: as it has changed over its (roughly) 250 year documented history. I'll follow up with a deep dive on the history of the style, but I will give a quick run down here as well: Berliner Weisse is thought to have evolved from anothe…
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Light Day Away: Brewing an Historic Bitter at the Leprechaun’s Lab
This past year, I won the Wichita Homebrewers Organization's "Homebrewer of the Year" award, which gave me the opportunity to brew a beer at The Leprechaun’s Lab with brewer / owner, Patrick Root. Each time I get the opportunity to brew something scaled up, I want to do something a little different…
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Origin of the Beer Style: English Bitters
What’s in a name? It turns out it can have quite an impact, as even recently, someone I encountered seemed to recoil at the thought of the word “bitter”, but said they liked pale ales.Further, authentic examples have begun rebranding such beers as "amber ales" (e.g. Spitfire Amber Ale), a term…
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The Voyager Mission as an Inspiration for Light Day Away
For just about as long as I can remember, space has been a source of endless fascination. I remember as a kid looking at a book about space, I had to have been around 5 years old, I can’t remember for sure, but what I do remember was the awe-inspiring photographs of Neptune taken by the Voyager 2…
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