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Home baking Japanese shokupan (white bread)

Posted on February 19, 2021February 19, 2021by Kyle Bell

In Japan they have this really fluffy, Wonderbread-style loaf that they call shokupan. It’s basically freshly baked white bread except more exotic because the recipe is from Japan. I’ve been into baking lately so I decided to make my own. When I was starting out I used a recipe from Ethan Chlebowski and another from […]

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Brewing coffee in a vintage steel vacuum pot

Posted on January 31, 2021January 31, 2021by Kyle Bell

Maybe two or three years ago after returning from Japan, I decided I wanted to try replicating the siphon coffee that we were served for our first breakfast. I some research and found out that they used to be very common in the US before auto-percolators took off in the 1960s and were known as […]

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A perfect cup of coffee requires a perfect grind

Posted on March 18, 2018March 18, 2018by Kyle Bell

Whenever I find a particular beer that I love, I take note and try to replicate it myself. Lately I’ve been trying the same with coffee — I love Blue Bottle, and I’ve been trying to replicate the taste of their pour-over coffee for the last few months. It’s been quite the journey, which actually […]

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DIY: Super Nintendo nostalgia on your TV

Posted on July 31, 2017July 29, 2017by Kyle Bell

I’m going to put this in Brewing, as in your own homebrew Super Nintendo, since it’s the best category I have for now. When we were in Montreal, we stumbled on this cafe that had a Super Nintendo with Super Mario for customers. It was the coolest idea, video games while you enjoy your coffee. […]

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Honey Smacks Honey Brown Ale

Posted on July 27, 2017July 28, 2017by Kyle Bell

The following recipe was of my own design for our Brewminaries cereal beer showcase, pouring mid-August. I chose Honey Smacks and decided to make a brown ale to showcase the cereal and for nostalgia reasons, since when I was in Syracuse we used to drink J.W. Dundee (Genesee) Honey Brown fairly often, it being a […]

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DIY: Roast Your Own Coffee (RYOC): Technique

Posted on April 8, 2017April 8, 2017by Kyle Bell

Perhaps you love coffee and would like to experiment, you may be looking to replicate the fresh coffee you tried in some cafe, or you may simply be starting to question why you spend so much to buy roasted coffee from someone else. Coffee is an industrial product like beer, and also like beer, you […]

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DIY: Roast Your Own Coffee (RYOC): Equipment

Posted on April 8, 2017April 8, 2017by Kyle Bell

Roasting your own coffee is a fairly simple process that requires a minimum of finesse. Even better, time investment is only slightly more than making a batch of popcorn. Whether you’re looking to roast for your own daily consumption or to add flavor to a home-brewed stout or porter, here’s a primer on how to […]

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Breaking the rules: Grodziskie, a Polish smoked wheat beer

Posted on March 12, 2017March 12, 2017by Kyle Bell

Of all the beers I’ve tried over my life, for better or worse, none is more indelibly stamped into my brain than the Kosciuszko Polish Smoked Wheat from Yards Brewing in Philadelphia. Nearly ten years later I still remember its intense smokiness. Brewed alongside their popular Ales of the Revolution series honoring Washington, Jefferson, and […]

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DIY: Hand-Pump Beer Line Cleaner

Posted on January 21, 2017January 21, 2017by Kyle Bell

We’ve all been served from a dirty draft line at some point, leaving us with a flat, soapy flavored beer lacking any of the usual hops “bite” or maltiness that we remember. Since I pieced together my minimalist kegging setup, I have left StarSan no-rinse sanitizer in the lines to avoid this, hoping that the […]

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A cautious approach to bottle carbonation

Posted on October 26, 2016by Kyle Bell

Photo, from L-R: Le Chouffe, Flying Dog, Weistephan 330 mL and Orval bottles lined up after weighing. In all my years of homebrewing, I’ve never worried about bottle bombs, i.e. when a bottle of carbonated home-brewed beer explodes, though in all those years I’ve always aged my beer and bottled to a standard 2.5 volumes […]

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