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All-in-one all-grain brewing disaster

October 8, 2020 by yenkai Leave a Comment

My second attempt at all-grain brewing turned out to be a disaster. It still made it into my fermenter (the ingredients cost almost S$70!) but my all-in-one brewing kit was almost ruined. A painful lesson which, hopefully, you can avoid. Related posts: Hoegaarden beer project kick off Home brew kick off All grain brewing using … [Read more…]

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All grain brewing using Taobao-bought all-in-one brewing system

August 6, 2020 by yenkai Leave a Comment

Okay, to use the term “brewing system” is to give higher praise than deserved to the simple kettle plus pump i recently bought from Taobao. But basically that is all you need to do grain brewing – a kettle for mashing and boiling and a pump for sparging – the three stages involved in grain … [Read more…]

Posted in: Eat/Drink, Spend-thrift Tagged: Beer, Taobao

Taobao product recommendation – Beer all grain brewing all-in-one kit

July 20, 2020 by yenkai Leave a Comment

I’ve been brewing beer from extract since the beginning (woah it’s been almost five years just like that), and that’s probably the right place to start for beginners. It couldn’t be easier, but everyone has to progress to grain brewing at some point. The traditional method usually involves a three tier system which takes up … [Read more…]

Posted in: Eat/Drink, Spend-thrift Tagged: Beer, Product Recommendation, Taobao

Coopers beer kit tasting notes

March 2, 2017 by yenkai Leave a Comment

My 9th batch of beer, the IPA, is just ready for consumption. I made a different flavour each time, and here are my thoughts on those Coopers beer kit i have tried thus far. This is a very subjective matter of course. Also, beer expert i am not, and i can only talk in lay man terms. I realized … [Read more…]

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Priming and bottling – getting up to speed

June 14, 2016 by yenkai Leave a Comment

This is my third time priming and bottling my home brew (Australian Pale Ale this round), and I was getting a lot better at doing it. Here are some tips that may be of help to you. Tip #1 Use a syringe for priming OK, let me first say that you will not get accurate … [Read more…]

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Hoegaarden beer project priming and bottling

April 25, 2016 by yenkai Leave a Comment

Drawing from the experience of the my very first priming and bottling, i made changes to how i do priming and bottling for this second round of brewing. By the way, the beer does remind me of the Hoegaarden beer and seems more drinkable than the lager, which got a little boring after a while. This … [Read more…]

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Home brew lager beer taste test

March 28, 2016 by yenkai Leave a Comment

It’s almost 10 weeks since i bottled my first home brew lager beer, and i felt it was time i started enjoying the fruit of my labour (the instructions says wait 12 weeks). I was half expecting the beer to be under carbonated, since i used less sugar for priming than recommended, and was a little unsure … [Read more…]

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Hoegaarden beer project kick off

March 22, 2016 by yenkai 2 Comments

I had initially wanted to taste the beer from my first project before i start another round of home brew (it’s 8 weeks since i bottled them and i will start tasting them only from 10 weeks onwards). Then i thought, what if run out of beer! So i quickly made preparation for the second round of … [Read more…]

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Amazon product recommendation – beer kit

March 13, 2016 by yenkai Leave a Comment

This is my second time buying the Coopers beer kit from Amazon. As expected, I received a dented can. This is the price you pay in exchange for a 25% discount. This time round, the sachet of yeast was missing as well, which was what also happened to some other Amazon product reviewers. Thankfully the … [Read more…]

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Home brew priming and bottling

January 30, 2016 by yenkai Leave a Comment

The time has come for me to prime and bottle my home brew beer. In case you don’t know what priming beer means, it is simply adding sugar to the fermented beer to kick off a secondary round of fermentation so that the beer becomes carbonated. The yeast present will completely consume the sugar and give off … [Read more…]

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