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This post marks my 100th post to the Lazy Brewer blog! I wondered if I’d get here with my little blogging experiment. It won’t be too long before I blog about my 100th batch of beer.
Last week I picked up a 13 cu ft chest freezer, and Ranco digital temperature controller, for cold keg storage. [...]
Stephen (formerly known as Some Guy:) and I got back home from NHC shortly after 11:00 a.m. this morning. As much as I really enjoyed NHC, it was nice to get home to familiar, comfortable surroundings and my family.
The 2009 National Homebrewers Conference was without a doubt one of the best organized conferences, on any [...]
One of the things I like to experiment with in my brewing is making single hop ales. It really allows you to see what a particular hop variety brings to an ale. To take this one step further (and feed my background as a former science teacher:), I like to take a recipe for a [...]
Brenda and I received a gift certificate for a local department store when we got married 28 years ago, and we used it, plus a few extra dollars, to buy a Weber kettle barbecue that I used extensively for seven or eight years. Many, many wonderful meals were prepared on that kettle and it actually [...]
We had a really nice trip to Sacramento. After we tried to check into the hotel, we headed over to Rubicon Brewing Company for lunch and ales. I was worried about parking, but we were able to park on the street about a half-block away. The place was pretty busy, with no tables available outside, [...]
Brenda’s Jaguar needed a trip to Livermore for servicing (and we have to go back once the parts they had to order arrive…), so I stopped by The Good Brewer for a visit. Julie, one of my blog readers, let me know that they had leaf Saaz hops in stock, and I like to have [...]