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     Today's Featured Article Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
     Title:  Beau's Bottle Returns
     Author:  Bodensatz
     Dated:  2008.07.13 @ 07:55
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    Beer NewsI see a lot of chat on the local Ottawa blogs about the new bottle return policy forced upon Beau's Brewery of Vankleek Hill, Ontario. Some of the finer details of the following report may be off, but the gist is still there.

    Beau's recently started selling their Lugtread beer in ceramic swing-top bottles. The deposit was $2 per bottle, redeemable only at the brewery. I'll also add as an aside that both the 750ml ceramic swing-top bottles, as well as the 2L (3L?) growlers are collected by homebrewers for their beer.

    Anyway, It didn't take any time at all before they had the 750ml bottles for sale in the LCBO, and this created a strange situation where if you brought the bottles back to the Beer Store like anything else bought at the LCBO, you got 20 cents back for your deposit. But if you brought it back to the brewery, you got $2. That's quite a difference!

    Then the LCBO declared that Beau's could not offer a $2 return deposit at their brewery - they had to offer the same 20 cent return deposit as the LCBO. And so a lot of customers went into an uproar over it.


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    Most Recent Post: 2008.08.05 @ 19:17:47 by boo boo

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     Please Write to your MPP Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
     Author:  Bodensatz
     Dated:  2008.07.09 @ 17:11
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    LettersIf you live in Ontario like I do, please visit this website to look up who is your Member of Provincial Parliament, and please send them a letter similar to the one below. Or simply cut-and-paste the one below, which I just sent to mine. Of course you should change the name to that of your own MPP.

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    Most Recent Post: 2008.07.10 @ 12:40:40 by BramptonBrewer

     Building a Stir Plate Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
     Author:  Bodensatz
     Dated:  2008.06.29 @ 09:46
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    Homebrew ChatI just added a new article on building a stir plate. Just making a quick note of it here and pointing to the article, because this will show up in my RDF feed, but the original article will not.

     Pea Soup in the Jar Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
     Author:  Bodensatz
     Dated:  2008.06.25 @ 20:36
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    Beer CookingI've been doing home canning for about 13 or 14 years now, and have been making pea soup for 5 or 6 maybe. Typically, I cook the soup all day long in the slow cooker, then eat some and can the rest up. But I've often thought that it must be possible to just toss all of the raw ingredients into a mason jar, put the lid on, and can it up. The stuff should cook just fine while canning, especially since anything with meat in it like pea soup should be processed in a pressure canner at 15 psi.

    So I finally got around to trying it - here's what I did.


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    Most Recent Post: 2008.06.26 @ 16:04:58 by Bodensatz

     Big Strange New Brunswick Brew 6 Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
     Author:  Bodensatz
     Dated:  2008.06.19 @ 12:10
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    Homebrew ChatAnother year has come and gone, and BSNBB is but a memory once again. Sigh. To recap, about a decade ago now a group of a half dozen or so brewers here in Ottawa started a mailing list. For the longest time it was just 5 or 6 of us, but then about 8 years ago the list started to expand. More and more brewers were signing up - but not just in Ottawa - right across the country. 7 years ago we decided to have a "Big Brew" - which is what you get when a bunch of brewers haul there breweries to someone's house, and they all brew a crazy amount of beer, drink beer, talk about beer, and so on. The first event was here in my back yard in Ottawa, and every spring we do it all over again at someone's house.

     Cream Ale Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
     Author:  Bodensatz
     Dated:  2008.06.08 @ 15:34
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    Homebrew ChatToday was brewday. I absolutely had to brew this weekend since I'm away the next 2 weekends so I have to get the pipeline moving. Next weekend is of course Big Strange New Brunswick Brew, and the weekend after I'm Best Man at a friend's wedding.

    So the grain bill went something like this :

    • 8 kg Weyermann Pils
    • 200g malted oats
    • 1.8 kg flaked corn

    I tried to mash in for 152F but I guess I didn't stir my mash well enough because at first my temperature was reading way high at 155F. Then I mixed in some cold water and stirred well and it was way down at 145F!

    Time for an emergency decoction


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    Most Recent Post: 2008.06.13 @ 21:22:21 by WitSok

     Today's Heferyezen Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
     Author:  Bodensatz
     Dated:  2008.05.19 @ 17:11
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    Homebrew ChatAs I believe I've written about in the past, the whole reason I started brewing back in 1995 was that I could not buy Hefeweizen (Bavarian Wheat Beer) in Nova Scotia when I moved back from Germany in 1994. So I figured if I could not buy it, I might as well make it. For a quick history of this beer style see this article.

    The beer I brewed today is a brewed with some rye malt in place of some of the wheat malt, so I (and other homebrewers) call it HefeRyezen. Simple play on words.


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    Most Recent Post: 2008.06.07 @ 20:38:12 by Bodensatz

     Is it Cost Effective to Replace an Old Beer Fridge? Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
     Author:  Bodensatz
     Dated:  2008.05.09 @ 20:07
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    Beer NewsCanadians out there will probably know the TV commercials with David Suzuki coming into people's homes informing them about energy efficiency. There's the one where he takes a sawzall and cuts a hole in their wall and tosses a basketball through it, and then sticks his head through and tells people that tiny air leaks throughout the house can add up to a hole the size of a basketball.

    Then there is the one about the beer fridge, and how replacing that old one would give you lots more money to buy more beer. But is it true?


     New Coffee Toys Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
     Author:  Bodensatz
     Dated:  2008.02.18 @ 08:50
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    CoffeeWe were in Toronto on the weekend and I stopped by the Green Beanery. It was a bit mixed up because they were in the process of moving. I ended up at their old store and did not know it was in the basement of a church. Was standing right in front of the church but had no idea it was in there. I thought I was in the wrong place. Then I called 411 from a payphone and got their number, but they were not answering. As I was to find out, because they are setting up in their new (totally awesome) store on the corner of Bloor and Bathurst.

    Fortunately, I recognised the voice on the voicemail as the system that I actually help develop at Nortel. And I knew a few back-door tricks to get through to someone :-) So I managed to get through to a human and found out about their new store. But it was still very much under renovation so while I did get my toys, I did not get all the beans I'd wanted.


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    Most Recent Post: 2008.02.27 @ 20:32:01 by Bodensatz

     Sam Adams is a real class act! Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
     Author:  Bodensatz
     Dated:  2008.02.18 @ 05:23
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    Beer NewsBy now we've all heard about the hop shortage, and how some micro brewers are scrambling for supply. A friend just pointed me to the following page on the Sam Adams website which says that they are overstocked with hops and will therefore sell off 20,000 lbs to other micro brewers who are in need!

    Wow!

    I have to say, these guys are a real class act!


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    Most Recent Post: 2008.02.27 @ 20:34:59 by Bodensatz