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All grain beer brewing

We Have A New Crush on Barley- Our Barley Crusher

Is it better to grind or to crush? When you take a grain or seed and you are interested in extracting out the maximum amount of solubles and volatiles from it without producing too many tannins from over extraction the debate always turns to particle size and particle size consistency. Whether you are talking about [...]

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Temperatura Makes The Beer Go Right- Johnson Controllers Rock

There are 3 main things that every beer brewer focuses on mastering in the brewing process when making Craft Beer: Time The PH Temperature All are crucial but the one we will talk about today is controlling temperature. Not in the brewing process itself but in the fermentation process where temperature is even more crucial [...]

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Cerveza Artesanal – Brewing a California IPA In El Salvador

Last week we brewed one of our favorite beers that we have brewed here in El Salvador. We brewed another batch of our California IPA. It is a balance of fresh hoppiness, well rounded mouthfeel and some complex malt flavors. It is coming along pretty well. it has reached its final gravity by day five [...]

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Improving The Brewing System Improves the Beer

Over the past few weeks we have been making a lot of improvements to the brew system as we move ever closer to finally being able to open. Some of the improvements and experiments we implemented: (this is still the test system as the new complete system is in progress but will use the same [...]

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Chicha Wild Yeast Beer- Sour Lambic El Salvador Style

A month ago we decided to capture some wild yeast and make a yeast starter. Its a risky and time consuming process but we managed to get a pretty good collection of wild yeast over the two weeks of trial. Of course it also came with a hefty amount of lactic bacteria which is common. [...]

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Brew Revolutions 2nd Pilot BrewHouse System – Cerveza Artesanal

The new larger and much improved Brew House pilot system is now in operation. We have learned a great deal in the last few months of brewing weekly. One of the main things that we have learned is that we an not make enough beer to satisfy our own insatiable desire fro great beer and [...]

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El Salvador craft beer

Beer Tasting – Salvador Sunburn – El Salvador Home Brew

This is a series of beer reviews and beer tastings of every cerveza available in El Salvador. From the national brands, the local imports and the European imports. We will be working through every beer type in the country. Including any home brew beers We can find including our own. This beer was brewed by [...]

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Beer Nerds Get Yeasty With It: Citrus, Coffee IPA 2 way

Beer nerds have all the fun. A few weeks ago we brewed a beer we called the We love El Salvador beer.  We combined three of our favorite things about El Salvador: Coffee, Citrus and Cerveza. We brewed our California IPA base and added a bit of citrus peels and Finca San Jose coffee three [...]

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Home-Brew El Salvador- California IPA 3 – Yeast experiments

My favorites beers have all tended to fall into two camps: California style IPA’s – heavy on hop flavor and intense Belgian Dark Ales- crazy flavors, crazy fruit The beer that we are really focused on perfecting here in El Salvador is our take on a beautifully hoppy California style IPA. We came up with [...]

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Roasting Your Own Malt – Coffee Geek Meets Beer Nerd

One of the many, many, many challenges of brewing in the tropics FAR from any beer culture, beer supplies or beer ingredients is getting those very things! We can only smuggle 250 pounds worth of ingredients per trip back from the US. So eventually we run out of something we need to brew a beer. [...]

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