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Brewing for the Holidays

Hello Sports fans, people who have followed will be amazed at how far we have come with BrewBarons Beer. It will contain style history and beer recipes that we are trying. We have a great situation to try different thing when brewing a beer. We normally now brew 10 gallon batches. These 10 gallons are split into 5 gallon pails for fermenting. This enables us to change a variety of different things when brewing a beer. We can use 2 different yeast hop the pails differently and even change temperature and many other phases in brewing.

The newsletter will have a special segment on cooking with beer and what beers can go with different beers. This segment will be done by the Chef de Cuisine for the Manray Resort in Panama City. More on this later.

Since the last post we have brewed quite a large amount of beer trying a variety different types and brewing methods. We brewed a Black IPA and also did a Party-guile with this beer and we also did a Midnight stout and a Party-guile with this beer. We have a Kolsch and we tried a new recipe for Pumpkin Spice Beer. We are using fresh ingredients and brewed the beer with a 2-step infusion mash with a mash out profile. This extra steps should give us better head retention and a fuller taste we will know in a couple weeks.

So with the addition of a newsletter and the ability to get your responses we look forward to expanding the boundaries of brewing and enjoying good homebrew. Thanks JMB

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What’s New with the BrewBarons?

Hello and thank you for being patient. What’s new? Quite a bit. As I have neglected posting any information we have been extremely busy in both brewing new types of beer, more on this later, upgrading equipment, and cultivating and watching the hops grow.

In the past month and a half one of the Brewbarons, the supposed founder of the Brewbarons, came into town to visit. With Jeffrey in for three weeks their was much drinking and some brewing. We brewed a Brewbaron 7 Day Best which is a complex beer that can be in your glass in seven days. We had a little of patience and waited 10 days and it was delicious but this beer definitely got better the longer it conditioned. We have since brewed it again. The beer is a light beer with a strong alcohol and hop bite at the end. One of the better lawnmower beers we have brewed.

Some other beers we brewed were a Belgian Tripel which blew the top off of the fermentor,

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The Switch to All Grain

In our attempt to brew the best beer possible the Brewbarons are getting ready to progress to the all grain method. This is what the brewers of the micro-brewery and the big breweries do. It is cost prohibitive to continue to use extract when for a bit more time and energy the all grain process is available.

For people not sure what the difference is, the extract method is the manufacturer of the extract makes wort then basically cooks it down till it is a syrup. The homebrewer takes the wort and then boils water and adds the extract to the water to make his wort. After the boils the brewer will add more water till he gets to his 5 gallon mark.

In all grain method the home brewer gets the grains, splits them and then gets the grains to start to germinate. This allows the part of the grain that has the starch and carbohydrates to be broken down into the sugars the yeast need. The homebrewer then after a prescribed time rinses the grains and takes the liquid and transfers it to the brew pot were he or she boils the liquid, now called wort, and add any hops or sugar to the boil.

Some would say why not stay with extract because it is easier. An important reason is that you have control over a few more of the variables in making beer. When making the mash you have to calculate the time the mash sits and at what temperature. You control the amount of sugar that will be used by the east. Various mash temperatures, rest times, target specific types of carbohydrates and starches into breaking down into simple sugars that yeast can use.

The biggest reason is taste. Obviously if we wanted a good beer it can be bought and drank. Sometimes the journey is almost as fun as the vacation. I said almost, sharing a good beer is still one of simple pleasures and if you make the beer it does not get much better than that.

The all grain process will be time intensive with rest times and the boiling of the sparge water, water to rinse the mash, along with the cooking of the wort but we hope to be rewarded with a smooth and more intensely flavored beer. We have seen a steady progression of better beer as we have progressed. Can we continue to get better with the extract brewing. Yes we can but only if we were going to continue to extract brew because of time or other constraints. Their is nothing wrong with extract brewing as some of the best beers I have had were from extract kits. It is time to make the move.

The first couple of all grain sessions will most likely take longer than expected. This will be due to using new equipment, a complete different process and just not having all the steps worked out. The brew schedule for the all grain process is being worked on and discussed. At this time we are in the learning phase so we will not experiment with the recipes but once we get the process down we will begin the process. If you have suggestions for possible beers you would like us to brew leave your input in the comment box.

Time to sit back and enjoy a Home brew!!

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The New BrewBaron

Hello fellow Brewbarons.  Sorry for the delay in getting the site up and running. We had some technical difficulties and in the following days and week I will be adding content and information and pictures.

Some of the new posts will be a brewing schedules as we get into the spring and summer brewing season. We have currently 3 extract kits left and then we will be switching to all grain. Their is talk of a few more extract kits being added and saved and then Cialis online compared to the all grain brews to taste the difference.

Some new items are the stir plates that allow us to pitch healthier yeast colonies to our beer. We will be top cropping beer, more on this later, and we have added a fermentor. We were originally going to use this for lagering but unfortunately the system works to hard to keep the temperatures in the high 30′s and low 40′s. We will be moving the lagering process to the refrigerator and building a new portable kegerator. buy amoxil It will have at least 2 taps possibly generic Viagra Professional levitra price up to 4 depending on space inside the container.

Some new additions will be a forum for select members. Levitra These members Order Generic Levitra Professional Online without Prescription will be limited viagra for women online to the inner core of brewbarons. Sorry. We will eventually cheap ampicillin open this up to acomplia buy Drugstore online cheap levitra website more members.

We will building a wort chiller and a lauter, this will be covered western union georgia cordele in other posts. For now enjoy and have a Homebrew!!!

 

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