homebrew
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Before I started brewing, IPAs were my main squeeze. I enjoyed other beers too, although I typically thought they lacked the complexity that many of the different hop varieties can offer. Yeah, I don’t like young me either. Anyway, this beer is a recipe from one of my all-time absolute favorite breweries, Dry Dock Brewing…
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These early stages of my brewing history are incredibly exciting from my initial immersion in the culture to buying equipment that would look at home in a chemistry department and very much nurturing the beginning of an aspect of my identity. I was so entranced in having a new, culinary-esque avenue to express creativity that…
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This beer was my second step down the wonderful path of addiction. I brewed this beer on 2/26/2012, around a week after my first brew. At this point, I still didn’t have a brew kit apart from two carboys and enough tools to rack and bottle beer (which originally came in the Midwest kit). I…
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I named this beer the Chaos IPA because it was my first beer and nearly everything went wrong. It is a clone of Odell’s IPA (from Szamatulski’s Clone Brews) without two of the hop additions that I brewed February 26, 2012. I really like the maltier character of the beer and it ended up tasting…
