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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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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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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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