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Each year The Canadian Association of Homebrewers promotes Canadian Homebrewing Day. This year we are happy to help spread the word and share our love of this hobby. Tomorrow, Derek and I will be doing an old school kitchen brew with some Kölsch yeast from Escarpment Labs & checking in on a brand new homebrewing club in Saint John - The Witchcraft Beer Society. You can follow along with our day on our social media accounts. We also might be making a very special announcement... If you are a homebrewer, or are thinking of diving in you should checkout the Association's...

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Over on our Youtube channel we have started building a playlist of videos catering to new(ish) brewers. One of our missions here at the shop is promote the home brewing community in general, and this includes helping to onboard new brewers! In this video I break down three tips to help you best manage when your latest brew is done fermenting, and how to tell when it’s ready to bottle or keg. Cheers! Derek

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Beginner Brewing Starting to brew on your own is a bit of an ordeal. Not that the hobby is reserved for the elite or beer experts, but there is a commitment that needs to be made which will cost money, time, brain power and moderate effort.  This post will hopefully help clear the air, and cut through some of the stacks of information available. This of course is once again, my humble opinion on where to begin. There are several methods for making beer, but if you are going to invest in making brewing a hobby, you want to enjoy...

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When I started home brewing years ago (2002), there was very little interest in the hobby, products were very limited and there were not many resources to figure out how to do things properly, other than the sheet of paper that came in the kits you could buy from the grocery store. The kit was at the end of the soft drink aisle, at the bottom, covered in dust. If someone massed produced the beer from these kits they would likely end up back on the bottom shelf covered in dust, because they were lacking vibrancy, flavour, quality, carbonation and...

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