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Author: Bryan

Brewing Science Fact or Fiction? 

Fact or Fiction – Botulism in Beer? Part V

January 29, 2020November 2, 2020 Bryan 13 Comments botulism, brewing issues, contamination, pathogens

An in-depth discussion of the risk of introducing botulism during brewing.

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caramelizing the honey for the bochet
Homebrewing Recipes 

Bourbon Bochet

January 19, 2020January 19, 2020 Bryan 2 Comments bochet, honey, mead, recipe, tasting notes

Recipe, brewing notes and tasting notes for a caramelized honey mead.

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black saison
Homebrewing Recipes 

XMas in Morocco Black Saison

January 2, 2020January 2, 2020 Bryan 3 Comments advent beer, black saison, brettanomyces, brewday, recipe, saccharomyces, saison, tasting notes

A black saison featuring caramelised dates, cardamom and Brettanomyces.

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Brewing Science Zymurgy 

Using PCR to Identify Contamination in Beer – Part 3

December 4, 2019December 4, 2019 Bryan 2 Comments contamination, diastaticus, PCR, quality control

Note to my readers: This technique does not work as well as hoped, for reasons discussed below. I am, however,

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Staghorn Sumac
Homebrewing Recipes 

Staghorn Mead

November 24, 2019November 24, 2019 Bryan 0 Comments mead, recipe, staghorn sumac, sumac, tasting notes

Its always fun to brew using things you find in your backyard, or in the nearby parks and forests. Last

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Homebrewing Recipes 

Stale Malt Bitter

November 14, 2019November 14, 2019 Bryan 2 Comments bitter, recipe, tasting notes

In which I, mostly accidentally, brew a bitter almost entirely out of stale malt. Is it good, or is it bad? You’ll have to read the post to find out!

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Brewing Science Zymurgy 

Basic Yeast Morphology

October 30, 2019October 30, 2019 Bryan 0 Comments microscope, microscopy, morphology, yeast, yeast identification

Questions about identifying yeast, by their morphology as seen through a microscope, come up frequently in brewing forums. I also

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Homebrewing Recipes 

Beer-Flavoured-Beer (Light Lager)

September 24, 2019September 24, 2019 Bryan 1 Comment lager, recipe, tasting notes

My more regular readers may have noticed that my posting activity is down quite a bit over the summer. This

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drying kveik at 6 months
Adventures in Yeast Wrangling Yeast Wrangling 

Drying Kveik – The Grand Finale

August 28, 2019August 28, 2019 Bryan 3 Comments drying yeast, kveik, storing yeast

Six months ago I embarked on an experiment to assess how well drying kveik (Norwegian landrace yeasts) works as a

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IPA in the sun
Homebrewing Recipes 

XJA – An Experimental Hop IPA

August 13, 2019August 13, 2019 Bryan 2 Comments IPA, kveik, recipe, tasting notes

One of the nice side effects of my blog and yeast exchange is that people sometimes send me stuff. Recently,

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