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Live at Homebrew Con 2019!
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Brewing With Beano and How It Affects Your Beer
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Read moreCan You Boil Hops in Booster?
{{widget type="Magento\Cms\Block\Widget\Block" template="widget/static_block/default.phtml" block_id="139"}} Who does not love hops? I know I do! One thing that we have changed with some of our new Recipes is boiling your hops in Booster. Over the 6 years I have been working here I was always told not to do it but never told why. So finally, we decided to try it ourselves. So, to answer the age-old question, can you boil hops in booster? The answer is YES!! Okay, so that is pretty basic let’s dive into some details about this. Let’s first discuss Humulone, and what it is. Humulone is the name for the primary alpha acid present in hops that causes bittering. But humulone must be Isomerized (through heating) to be available in its bitter form, known as isohumulone. Using a smaller boil volume, more concentrated wart can reduce the amount of bittering potential that are hops might have, this is because a higher gravity wort (meaning a wort with a higher ratio of sugar per volume of liquid) will decrease the rate of isomerization, so basically that means a wort with more water, will be potentially more bitter. BUT hops do need some gravity in order in impart flavor, and not just bitterness. As we’ve mentioned in a previous blog post, a smaller volume, more concentrated wart can reduce the amount of bittering potential that are hops might have, this is because a higher gravity wort (meaning a wort with a higher ratio of sugar per volume of liquid) will decrease the rate of isomerization, so basically that means a wort with more water, will be potentially more bitter. BUT hops do need some gravity in order in impart flavor, and not just bitterness. Okay, so wait can you boil hops in water? All though it may seem odd, you can boil hops in water, this is called a “hop tea”. It will cause a large amount of humulone to be excreted from your hops, however it can result in very little flavor. There are some brewers that stand by the idea that boiling hops in only water produces a grassy and undesirable vegetal flavor, however it is more likely that this is not true, as boiling in water voids the hops of their flavor and brings out only their bitterness which could be perceived differently on an individual pallet. Now when boiling hops it is always important to make sure that you are boiling your hops in either Booster, LME, or DME. You NEVER, want to boil your HME. You can think of a can of HME (hopped malt extract) as a concentrated wort, because that’s exactly what it is. The hops in this wort have already gone through their boil process and achieved “high isomerization” therefore boiling them further is unnecessary and could potentially alter the flavor to be undesirable. Also, boiling Malt extract can darken it and if you’re someone that’s picky about the color of your finished beer, this could be problematic. This is where boiling them in booster comes in handy. Adding booster to your hop boil, allows you to create the ideally balanced environment for your hops to have enough gravity to lend flavor but not so much that their bitterness is lost. Therefore, acting as the great mediator between the two qualities. Boiling your hops in booster, allows you to use a creative and dynamic hop schedule without changing or marring the flavor of your HME. It gives you far more control over your hops and the flavors that they are imparting. When using hops, always follow the instructions that come with your Recipe. If you want to experiment and go all mad scientist with some hops, just make sure that you do NOT boil them in your HME. Cheers, and Happy Brewing!
Read moreCan You Use Expired Mr. Beer Ingredients?
{{widget type="Magento\Cms\Block\Widget\Block" template="widget/static_block/default.phtml" block_id="138"}} Have an expired can of Mr. Beer? You must be wondering if you can brew it and how it will taste? Who wants to toss something that can create amazing beer! We answer once and for all if you can brew with expired Mr. Beer Items. This is a question we get often, it seems like people get re-gifted a Mr. Beer Kit or happen to find some old Ingredients hidden away somewhere. The first thing you do when you get or find these old ingredients, is turn them over to check the best buy date. Only to realize they are, expired! Noooooo!! The first thought that will come to mind after you recover from the heart break of finding these expired ingredients is, can you brew with expired Mr. Beer products? The Answer is, yes! Our Hopped Malt Extract’s (HME’s) are perfectly fine to use well past their best buy date. The cans have the dates on them for 2 reasons. The first reason is the malt itself. Over time Malt Extract darkens so the date is to help preserve the proper color in your brew. if you are brewing with an old can or one that is a year or two past its best buy date the final product will be darker than what it should be. This will only really affect you if you are brewing a lighter color beer. Like our Classic American Light, Canadian Blonde, Northwest Pale Ale, etc. If you have a darker beer, like our Oktoberfest Lager or St. Patrick’s Irish Stout, and it is past the best buy date you won’t notice a change in color as it is already dark. The dating is also on the can to keep the hops fresh in the HME. Over time hop flavor, aroma and bitterness will go away. This is also true with commercial beers. If you have ever gotten an old IPA you know what I am talking about. They just have this mellow taste to them, like the bitterness just disappeared and they are usually not enjoyable. Over time that same thing can happen with our HME’s but it takes a lot longer since it is in such a condensed form. If you are brewing one of our more hoppy styles, like or Diablo IPA or Long Play IPA and it is at or past its best buy date then you should expect your beer to be less bitter than it normally would be. The second main reason for the best buy date is for the yeast under the lid of the can. Over time yeast can lose its viability and not ferment as well or just not ferment at all. So, if you are looking to brew an old can that you found packed away or someone gave you that is 1-2 years past its best buy date we would recommend getting new yeast. For all Refill’s except for the Bavarian Weissbier any type of dry ale yeast will work. You can order replacement yeast packets from Mr. Beer or you can pick up a pack of US-05 at your local homebrew store. If you have a wheat beer you will want to make sure to get wheat yeast like WB-06. So, feel free to brew those expired cans if you got them. Just make sure that you are getting new yeast if you need it and that the results will not be as good as the normally would have been. Like with anything using fresh ingredients in your brew will create a much better beer. Cheers!
Read moreHow Adding Hops at Different Times Can Affect Your Beer
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Read moreUpdated Mr. Beer Instructions and The Best Way to Brew With Mr. Beer.
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Read morePro Tips for Brewing our 7 Clone Recipes from Craft Beer Week
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Read moreHow is Hopped Malt Extract Made?
{{widget type="Magento\Cms\Block\Widget\Block" template="widget/static_block/default.phtml" block_id="134"}} Hopped Malt Extract is at the base of everything that we do at Mr. Beer. If you brew with Mr. Beer you will always use hopped malt extract. How is it made exactly? The process behind the scenes is not well known so we wanted to break it down for you. It’s a common misperception that most people think Hopped Malt Extract (HME) is somehow different form brewing with all grains. That you are using an inferior product and you will not get the same results with your homebrew by using HME instead of grain. This could not be further from the truth. What HME is does for you is shortens your brew day from 6 to 8 hours down to 1-2 hours at the most. You are not giving up any of the quality or taste in your finished product. The process is the exact same as brewing with all grains, you are just saving time. Before we dive into how HME is made let’s talk about where ours is made. We are owned by Coopers Brewery. They are based in Australia and are the largest provider of malt extract for home brewing in the World. Cooper's got into home brewing products in 1977 and they started canning hopped malt extract in 1984. Cooper's oversees the entire production process from the malting of the grains to putting the hopped malt extract into the cans. It is a fully automated system from start to finish and it helps ensure that, the end user is getting the best quality HME, and the freshest product that is available. Fun fact, in November 2017, Coopers opened a $65 million maltings plant at the brewery. It's one of the most state-of-the-art malting facilities in the world. It's all stainless steel and a fully automated maltings plant. This allows Coopers greater control over the entire process. From getting the raw grains to canning the HME. The first step in making HME is the malting of the grains. Malting is a three-step process. Step one is steeping. This is where the raw barley is transferred to the steeping house and is submerged in water. The steeping process is over when the barley reaches a moisture level, that will allow the starches and proteins to breakdown at the same rate. Step to is germination. This is where you're taking the steeped barley and transferring it to the germination vessels where it'll be in the process of what would normally be sprouting. The proteins and carbohydrates of the grain begin to break down, which causes the grain bean to open. This process is controlled by temperature and moisture that is pumped up from the bottom of the grain bed. The bed of grain is consistently being turned over. This helps prevent clumping during this process. The germination vessel looks like a large round container. The bed of the vessel where the grain lies is made of up little holes which will push the moisture up though the grain bed. Step three is Kilning and this stops the germination process. If you did not stop this process, your grain would just turn into a plant. Depending on the type of malt that is being made, the kilning time and temperature can vary. The goal for this process is to take moisture out of the grain. This is usually done in a three-stage process and each process is at different temperatures for different amounts of time depending on what type of malted grain you are trying to make. This is also important because it helps ensure that the enzymes remain intact to be used during the mashing process. Just like with germination, during the kilning process the hot air is coming up from the bottom and rising through the grain bed. Coopers uses heat exchangers as well, so they are recirculating the hot air through the grain bed That 3-step process was just the first step in the process of creating hopped malt extract. At this point now, the brewery has made malted barley. This is the base for any type of homebrew recipe that you are trying to make. Once the malting process is over the malted grain is then stored malt storage silos until it is ready to be used. When Coopers is getting ready to start a brew that is when the malted grain will be removed from the storage silos. Once they take it out of the silos the entire process is automated and takes about 6 hours to complete and finished with them putting the HME in cans on their automated canning line. The grain will be transferred from the malt storage and is run though a mill which will break up the grain for brewing. After it runs through the mill it is transferred to the Mash Tun. The Mash Tun is filled with heated water and the heated water will help the enzymes convert the starches into fermentable sugars. Depending on the makeup of your grain bill this will determine what kind of beer you're brewing. Stouts and Porters are going to have more darker roasted malt, while lighter colored beers would have more lighter malts. The mashing process will hold a constant temperature of 148F-154F and this step can take a few hours to complete. Once the mashing is complete the liquid is sent though a filter that will remove the spent grain. Now what you have is your pre-boiled wort and after it goes through the filter it is transferred to the Brew Kettle. In the Brew Kettle is where all the hop addition is done and boiled for bitterness and aroma, depending on the style of beer that is being brewed. After the Brew Kettle the mixture is transferred to the whirlpool. This process is used to help remove any hop residue that might be left over from the boiling process. Now, all of the steps that we have gone through are the exact same for brewing with all grain. This is also the same process that is used in breweries all over the world. After the whirlpool the wort will be split. Some will go to the fermenters where it will be brewed and bottled into Coopers Beer. The other part will go into an Evaporator. Coopers uses a centrifugal evaporator that removes the water without the use of any additional heat. During this process about 80% of the moisture in removed and you are left the syrup like substance that you get in your cans of extract. The unique thing about this process is the fact that Coopers does not add any heat to extract the water. Adding heat to Hopped or Unhopped Malt extract can darken and reduce the quality. This is what set’s Coopers & Mr. Beer’s Hopped Malt Extract apart from everyone else. Once the moisture level is where it should be the liquid (which has a syrup like consistency now) is transferred over to the canning line where it is packed and ready to go. The process of creating HME is the same as brewing from all grain. With the method that Coopers uses, you are getting the best quality malt extract and saving 6 hours on your brew day. You are not brewing an inferior beer or not “truly brewing”. Using Hopped Malt Extract saves time on your brew day (4-6 hours), helps with consistency during brewing and just makes amazing homebrew.
Read moreWhat is a Mr. Beer Refill?
{{widget type="Magento\Cms\Block\Widget\Block" template="widget/static_block/default.phtml" block_id="133"}} The best part about brewing with Mr. Beer is using our Refills. Now you might be wondering what exactly is a Mr. Beer Refill? Watch our Video Blog where we break it all down for you. Video Transcript Hello everyone and welcome to the second episode of what is now called Brew Talk with Mr. Beer. My name is Robert Lewis. I will be your host for today's show. We were filming live on Facebook from office in Tucson, Arizona, so we appreciate all those that are tuning in live now or that will tune in later and watch. If you're not able to watch us live every week, you can find these episodes or past episodes on our Mr. Beer Blog or our YouTube Channel, and they're also on our Facebook Page, and we might be pushing them to other places in the near future. Just to kind of hint what we're trying to do with this y While we're on the topic of social media, Jude, please follow us on Facebook, Instagram, subscribe to our YouTube Channel. We would greatly appreciate that, and it would help keep you up to date on all things Mr Beer. Also, if you want to learn more about Mr. Beer or just brewing in general, you should join our Mr. Beard, a Facebook group called the Mr. Beer Brewing Society. This can be found on our Facebook page. There is a groups button at the bottom where you can join or if you just search in your search bar, Mr. Beer Brewing Society and apply to join as it is a closed group. We just need you to answer a few questions and once you answer those questions we will let you in and you can start learning all kinds of stuff. If you are a first-time watcher of Brew Talk with Mr. Beer welcome and we appreciate you joining us today. Our show works like this. I will talk about a topic related to Mr. Beer or brewing with Mr. Beer then we will open it for a Q&A session on our Facebook Live Broadcast. For those of you who are watching live on Facebook, please post your questions and I will try and get to them all. For those who are watching later, I will try and read the live questions out loud, if I remember too, as I am sure if they are asking a question you might have a similar question. Before we dive in today's topic Let me talk about what I'm drinking today. So today I have a beer that was brewed by Ashley. It’s our Canadian Blonde Standard Refill, with a little bit of a hop edition. This is one of the new experiments we're trying to in the office. it’s pretty tasty. Definitely a good one. All right. So, let's get into today's topic here. Our topic for today is What is a Mr. Beer Refill? It might be a little basic for some of our more advanced brewers or people that have been brewing with Mr. Beer for a while. We do get a lot of new brewers that join our site every day or getting Mr. Beer Kit’s for gifts. So, I thought it was an important topic to discuss. Also, we're the only home brewing company that has what I would call a Refill. Our Refills are a can of Hopped Malt Extract and that is how you brew with Mr. Beer. These are the base ingredients for all our products and the very first thing you will brew when you get a Mr. Beer Kit. Along with the Beer Kits, all of these refills are the base for all of our Recipes that we make as well. Our Refills are the core of brewing with Mr. Beer. All of our refills are designed and crafted by Coopers Brewery in Australia, which is unique. Mr. Beer, for those who don't know is owned by Coopers Brewery, which is the largest family owned brewery in Australia, which is really cool. They create all of our ingredients there. Our Refills are produced the same way as the beers they brew it’s just a little different process in the end to get your hop malt extract. There are 16 different styles of Refills that we offer. We selected the most popular beer styles in the market, so you have a wide variety of things to brew. We’re going to go through those 16 styles, just you know what they are. We have our Classic American Light, which will be like commercial light beer, like a Bud Light. We have our American Lager, which is going to be close to a Sam Adams Boston Lager.. We have our American Ale, an American Porter which is similar to the Deschutes Black Butte Porter, which is very good. A Canadian Blonde which is what I'm drinking here. We have our Aztec Cerveza which is like a Mexican style lager which is great for the summer months. Our Grand Bohemian Czech Pilsner which is just a great traditional pilsner. This is a style that is really becoming popular again in the craft beer industry. So you haven't brewed this one? I'd definitely check it out. We have our Bavarian Weissbier, which is a wheat beer so if you'd like, Shock Top or Blue Moon, you'll like this one. Our Oktoberfest Lager which is well an, Oktoberfest Lager. It's a great tasting beer and probably one of our most popular styles. Our Saint Patrick's Irish Stout is going to be along the lines of a Guinness. Our Diablo IPA is going to be a very red and hoppy IPA. Our Long Play IPA is going to be a little less bitter and lighter in color. We have our Northwest Pale Ale, which is similar to the Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. One of my all-time favorite beers. Then we have our Churchill’s Nut Brown Ale which is just a great brown ale. Last year we brought back our Winter Dark Ale which is just a very roasty, malty beer. As you can see we offer a lot of different styles that cover all the basics that you could be looking to brew when you want to try a new style. Our regular cans are 850 grams. They are a hundred percent malted barley except for the Wheat Beer which has obviously some wheat in it. Our Craft Cans, which would be the Diablo, Bewitched, the Northwest, Long Play, Nut Brown and the Winter Dark are a little bigger. What you'll get here if you brew this is a little higher abv from just the refill, but these tend to be a little more hoppier as well. So if you're going for something that you want to be a little more on the lighter side and less hoppy you will want the Standard Refills. Depending on where you're ordering from, you might get our Booster. These will come with all the Standard Refills you are ordering from the Mr. Beer website. If you're ordering Refills from other places such as Amazon, you'll get just the can. We also have the Deluxe Refills which come with a pack of LME. Adding the Booster doesn't really change anything for the finished flavor that you're getting in the beer. It's just a bonus item that you get when buying from the Mr. Beer website, which is kind of cool, but either way you’re going to get a great tasting beer. In each can or Refill is Hopped Malt Extract, which is a whole topic within itself. I think we're going to do a later episode about that. Explain exactly what Hopped Malt Extract is and how it's made. I think that would just be cool for a lot of our new and advanced brewers. Just to understand all the science and the process that goes behind that. We're working on that one. So Hopped Malt Extract basically looks like a maple syrup. I have one here. It's not going to look that great on camera, but you can see the consistency, it's just very thick syrup. That's where all your hops, all your flavor comes from. Everything that you would need to brew comes out of that can. I thought it'd be cool to dive into a little history of the Mr. Beer Refill. We've always used a Mr. Beer Refill in our kit, but they've always gone by different names. I did some research this morning, so going back to 1999 to 2000 we had 10 different styles at that point of what we called Mr. Beer Mixes, and these were smaller cans about 550 grams. I managed to find this floating around the office here. That's our old style can our West Coast Pale Ale Beer Mix, which is a kind of cool. Basically, those were just the smaller cans so it was less malt and used more adjuncts. They would use a lot more booster and some other stuff that you would not need to use nowadays. Then we go into 2013 we introduced the, All Malt Combo. Those were two of the smaller cans put together. We called those our Brewmasters Series. So that'd be taken like a two cans of the West Coast Pale Ale or back then we had the Linebacker Doppelbock or our Red Ale. Some of the names have stayed similar over the years where we were able to and others changed. Then we stayed with that for a while, Mr. Beer Mixes as the base ingredient. Then we really change things around in 2013 but before I jump ahead. In 2007 the term “Refills” came about. We moved away from using the term Beer Mixes, to Mr. Beer Refill and this was with the launch of a new website, labels and a lot of new things. That is how the term Mr. Beer Refill came to be and that's still the verbiage that we use today. We’ve been using that ever since. Then in 2013. Mr. Beer was produced by Coopers Brewery, like I said earlier. They made the refills that we use and that everybody knows and loves today. The change had a huge improvement on flavor for us, which was great. Coopers is the biggest supplier malt extract in the World, so they know what they're doing when it comes to creating these Hopped Malt Extract varieties. We also really use their knowledge and their expertise to create a better flavor and a better beer for the consumer. Which is something that is unique about us. We did the bigger cans and more malt extract, which are a little higher abv, lot more flavor, all that good stuff. That about sums up my topic on Mr. Beer Refills today. Let me see if we have any Q&A’s here on Facebook live. It looks like, um, nothing at the moment. So if you have any questions when you watch this later, just comment on our video, we'll go ahead and answer those for you. We will be filming every week on Wednesday at noon. So, it's noon Pacific, three o'clock on the east coast. Don't forget to join our Facebook group. We are taking requests for future episodes and we appreciate you taking the time to watch the video today, Cheers.
Read moreBooster vs LME
{{widget type="Magento\Cms\Block\Widget\Block" template="widget/static_block/default.phtml" block_id="132"}} What’s the difference between booster and LME? Want to know how the impact they have on your beer? Well check out our first episode of Brew Talk with Mr. Beer and find out. Video Transcript All right I think we are alive. Give it a few minutes here. Let some people join. If you guys can hear me, just let me know. It's our first Mr Beer live video. Looks like we got two viewers in there now, which is good. We’re probably going to give it a minute or two, to get some more people to join before we start talking about our topic today. Can you guys hear me okay? Yeah, it seems like everything's working well. So we, we'll give it another minute and then we'll hop into our topic today. I am drinking a collaboration between Coronado and Belching Beaver brewery today, a hazy IPA, one of my favorites. So yeah, so we'll give it to you about the two-minute mark and then we'll get started guys, if that sounds good. All right, so about 30 seconds and then we'll get going. I think to start these will be a little slow at first as we kind of work out the kinks and get used to how long it takes everybody to join. So we'll give it about another 10 seconds. All right, so we have some people on, we welcome you to the very first installment of Mr Beer live. Since this is our first kind of try out, of hopefully have many episodes that we're going to try and do on a weekly basis. I kind of want to lay out the structure ahead of time so you guys know what to expect and then next time you can join, and we'll give you a better heads up of when we'll be doing these. You can plan out your schedule a little bit accordingly. We’re going to cover a brewing topic related to Mr Beer for five to 10 minutes then open up to Q&A at the end of the show. If you're not able to watch the weekly video, we will upload them on our Facebook page. We're going to upload them to YouTube and hopefully on the blog on our website so you can go back and look at the topics that we're talking about and stuff like that or if you missed it when I reference an old topic you can see all that information. Why we're on the topic of social media. I think most of you do follow us on Facebook. Check out our Instagram page and YouTube account as we're posting these videos more often that will help you keep up to date and kind of what's going on and what's new. We also had something that's new if you guys want to join. Last week we started the Mr. Beer Facebook group, it’s called Mr. Beer's Brewing Society. We’re inviting everyone who's brewing with Mr. Beer to join, who wants to learn about Mr. Beer. I think it's going to have a lot of information on there. We've had a ton of activity in the first week. So far we are about 200 members and almost 2000 posts and engagement. So to the people that are in the group that are watching, thanks for your help in getting that going for us. So let's dive into today's topic. We're going to talk about the difference between a Booster and LME. So, if you brew with Mr. Beer you know, we have boosters and we have a pack of LME. The booster is basically made up of corn syrup solids consisting of 8% glucose, 56% malt, maltose 16% maltotriose, and 20% dextrin’s. The booster is going to provide a full balance range in both fermentable and unfermentable sugars. The booster will mimic the carbohydrate profile of your wort, which is very scientific information. In case you guys are wondering, each pouch of booster is going to approximately add about 0.6% of alcohol into your beer, or 1.3% if you use two of them. We use these in our Standard Mr. Beer Refills. If you're ordering the Standard Refill from www.mrbeer.com you'll get two packets of these and those will increase your beer to roughly 5% ABV. We also sell several liquid malt extracts, or LME, which come in a nice little silver pouch like this, and these are packets of unhopped malt extract. LME is going to add more mouth feel and flavor to your beer by increasing the abv by about 1%. So if you're looking to really get more flavor and more body, and more mouth feel when you drink your beer, you're going to want to go with an LME. We have four different styles depending on what beer style you're brewing. We have the Pale, which would be good with our Classic American Light or American Lager. The Golden, which is our wheat one, which goes good with our Bavarian Weissbier. We also do a Robust and a Smooth. Those go well with the darker styles of beer, like an Oktoberfest Lager or our St. Patrick’s Irish Stout. You'll use a Smooth if you want something more malty and the Robust to bring out some great roasted malt character. The difference between the two, the booster is simply just for increasing your alcohol content. It's a not really going to add much to your beer good or bad. I think there's a stigma out there that sometimes adding extra for fermentables like a boosters can create off flavors but with how the booster is formulated It will not do that. It will just help get you to that higher alcohol content, which I think is really good. The LME is going to be mostly for flavor but will also increase your ABV. So if you're looking to get more flavor out of your beer, I'd recommend using the LME. If you're looking just to get more ABV out the standard cans, then I would recommend adding more booster to your batch. That’s why we do the Booster with the Standard Refills and then our Deluxe Refills come with the LME cause they're going to have more flavor than just the Standard Refills. We’re trying to keep these pretty short and not go on for too long. So that was kind of our topic for today. We are going to open it up to a Q&A session. If anybody has any questions about the topics that we talked about or about Mr Beer in general, we can go ahead and answer those for you in the live Facebook chat here, if not, then we will wrap it up and save you guys some time, so you can enjoy your Friday and drink some beer. Well we're getting close to a10 minutes here. We're going to try and keep these between about 10 and 15 minutes on a regular basis. We will be doing these on a weekly basis, so we will try and provide a better time of when we will actually be doing these videos so you guys can plan ahead or make sure you watch or subscribe to our channel, so you get notified when they come up. Don't forget to join our Facebook group, there is a lot of information about Mr. Beer in there and some behind the scenes stuff that go on. We do take requests for future episode topics in the group. If you have an idea that you think we should talk about and you would like to let us know, join the Facebook group and I'm in there and there's Ashley and Zach as well. So that'll be good. That’s it. So, we will see you guys next time, Cheers.
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The Best Beginner Homebrew Kit
You have a wondrously-varied collection of kits to choose from if you are just cracking into the beer making game. I thought I’d help you out and give you the lay of the land.
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Blending Your Beer
Blending beer is a way to make new what you’ve already got. You can blend different beer styles, barrel-aged and non-barrel-aged beers, portions of each batch of the same recipe, or various ages of the same recipe. Make a new beer that is even more delicious than its various parts.
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Mr. Beer Celebrates 25 Years of Industry-Leading Homebrew Kits
TUCSON, Ariz., Oct. 29, 2018 – Mr. Beer began their campaign to make homebrewing accessible, affordable, and flavorful in 1993. Twenty-five years later, those just starting to make their own beer still recognize Mr. Beer as the ideal homebrewing kit to begin the hobby. Today numerous breweries across the United States are headed by brewmasters who started with a Mr. Beer Kit.
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