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Coffee And Beer Redux -Kickstarter project

What two things go better together than Craft Beer and Craft Coffee? We are humbled and inspired by the awesome friends we have. Yesterday we told you about our friends at Chromatic Coffee (@Chromaticcoffee twitter) and their amazing offer of $1 per bag of coffee sold for the whole month of our project. Go there NOW [...]

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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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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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Coffee, Citrus And Cerveza – The I <3 El Salvador Beer

We Love our new home country of El Salvador. And we are really enjoying working on making exceptional Cerveza Artesanales that reflect the beauty and bounty of El Salvador and Central America. Three of our favorite things from El Salvador are Coffee, Fruit and Cerveza. (well Cerveza Artesenal is not YET made in EL Salvador…) [...]

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Black Coffee IPA – Bottled El Salvador Cerveza Artesenal

Today we bottled our Black Coffee IPA. The goal was to make a reasonably hoppy English style IPA with mid range IBUs from hops but enhance the bittersweet balance with the use of a range of dark roasted crystal malts. We wanted to avoid any over roasted or burnt flavors. We also wanted a good [...]

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Beer Tasting- El Salvador – California IPA II- 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 on [...]

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Beer Bottled. California IPA 2 – Smooth Home-Brew Bottling

Practice Improves Processes. And Brewing Beer is a Very Process Intensive Endeavor. Today we bottled our second version of our fan favorite California IPA. We brewed and bottled the first batch about a month ago. During the process we improved many steps and tightened down the procedures. We also devised a system for accurately measuring [...]

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