Kevin Thorngren

Homebrewing is my passion. Realale is my goal.

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Power has been out almost two hours. My beer better not get warm!! #fb

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Drinking @bearrepublic Racer Five during power outage. http://t.co/moKHIQyh

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Awesome bike!! #EnjoyTheRide

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Studying for the BJCP exam.

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working on version 2 of my brewing spreadsheet. adding option to adjust batch size, calculate refractometer readings of fermented beer, ...

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Been away from brewing for a couple months

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Drinking Green Flash IPA. I think this is now my favorite IPA.

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The Am. wheat nauraly carbonated perfectly. Transferred from primary at 1.024 into keg. It got to 30 PSI at fermintation temp.

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Kegged the American Wheat. Gravity was 1.024. We'll see how much natural carbonation I get once fermentation completes.

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Bewed and American Wheat on Saturday for the AHA teach a friend to homebrew day. It was good to get together and brew with others.

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Just got back from teach a friend to homebrew. All together we brewed around 30 gallons. I brewed an Amer. Wheat.

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FD Snake Dog, Redhook Winter Ale and Brooklyn East IPA went down well. Next up Stone Ruination IPA.

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Sampling different brews from Saranac, Brooklyn, Flying Dog, etc tonight. Getting my recipe together for the AHA teach a friend to HB day.

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Drinking Fort Collins Brewery Z beer. Interesting rauchbier.

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Will find out if others like it tomorrow at tailgating. Taking a 5 gallon keg. Wonder if there will be enough left for halloweeen.

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The pumpkin beer truned out pretty tasty. Would like more malt backbone. The 5 0z of spices is noticable but not oerpowering.

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It has been stable at 14 PSI for a few days. Need to check FG and col condition.

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I let the pumpkin ale naturally carbonate by kegging it with a couple of graviy points left to ferment. It has gotten to 14 PSI.

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My friends that like the low flavored beers might like it. Need to do some recipe tweaking.

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Trying my FT clone. Didn't turn out as i hoped It as a slight bready malt characterisic. Was hoping for bit bigger malt backbone.