I have been interested in homebrewing for a long time.  I picked up some books a couple years ago and began reading through them.  At first, the process seemed a bit intimidating.   Grains, extract, temperature control, sanitation and hops.. all with a different chapters.  And yeast;  the ingredient that makes it all happen, made me [...]

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This past weekend, my wife and I went to an AHA membership rally at Bells in Kalamazoo.  They had a tour of Bells Brewery to start off, and then it was off to the Eccentric Cafe downtown for the rally.   The tour was awesome.  The place was far bigger than I imagined.  I got a [...]

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A quick and basic demonstration of stove top homebrewing aired on Fox 2 Detroit yesterday. The demo was done by Greg Burke of Woodward Avenue Brewery. Greg talks about the brewing process and explains some of his environmental friendly brewing processes.   Click the image below to watch video.

Another homebrew [...]

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A while back we did a Featured Homebrewer post on Brian Richards from Marquette, MI. Brian entered a Belgian Strong Ale (similar to Duvel) called Biere Bella into the BOSS Chicago Cup Homebrew Competition and won Best of Show. The prize: brew his batch of beer on a large scale at Flossmoor [...]

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This is a pretty cool slideshow a guy put together on the brewing process. Having his wife/brewing assistant dress for the part helps keep your attention. The slideshow takes a bit to load, but it’s worth it. Click the image to view.

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In case you haven’t seen this yet, The History Channel’s show, Modern Marvels has a special on beer brewing (2005). They’ll be playing it on March 17th @ 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. Actually, the whole day of St. Patrick’s Day on The History Channel looks pretty good, I ended up setting [...]

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I posed the question to the Homebrewing group on Beer Advocate, and got so many cool responses, I figured I should post it on the beer buzz blog. Maybe some of you will want to further comment. Here’s the question I presented (link below):
I get this question all the time from [...]

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Brewhalla - I ran across this website in the Beer Advocate forums.   Tons of homebrewing set ups.   Some crazy, some awesome - but they all do the same thing!    Forewarning - you’ll be on this site for quite a while. 

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A little intro: Sarah and I met Brandon and Frank at Slows BBQ in Detroit. It is always fun to meet other homebrewers, especially when they are from a town near Monroe. They are a great example of brewing together as a team. If you are thinking of starting to homebrew try to find someone [...]

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Guest Post by: Josh Marenger
Don’t use the fact that you live in an upper as an excuse for not doing all-grain. I did for some time, especially since only two of the burners on my lousy electric stove work (the small ones too!). After some thought I realized that it was not [...]

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