I used the following ingredients in brewing this wheat beer:

13.8 oz of cracked wheat

3 lbs 0.7 oz of Malt

.04 oz of Belma hops @60 minutes.

I brewed on May 9th.

Making a beer using belma hops and 1 Door Saison yeast.  Here is the recipe:

15.4 oz of pearl barley

11.5 oz of cracked wheat

2 lbs 8 oz of American domestic two-row malt

3 oz of Belma @ 60 mins

Brewed on April 12th.

The recipe:

2 pounds 9 oz of American 2-Row

1 pound 8 oz of raw pearl barley

0.3 oz of Pacific Gem @ 60 minutes

0.15 oz of Rakau @ 15 minutes

Fermented with Widmer Brothers yeast.

Brewed on April 5th and bottled on April 29th 2012.

I brewed a witbier today.  I used Belma hops instead of the traditional European hops.  The recipe is as follows:

2 pounds 2 oz of American 2-Row

1 pound 5 oz of raw cracked wheat

0.3 oz (10 grams) of Belma @ 60 mins

I am fermenting this using Hoegaarden yeast that I cultured from a bottle.  I will try to keep the temperature around 70 fahrenheit during the fermentation.  I will have no aroma, spice or orange peel additions.

Brewed on April 3rd and bottled on April 24th.

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I’ve been brewing beer lately and I am fascinated by yeast and its contributions to beer flavor.  There is a particular yeast strain that I am looking to get a hold of called Conan Yeast.  It is described as a yeast that imparts fruity flavors.  It is suppose to be high attenuating and yet leave a creamy mouth-feel.

Check out “Suregork Loves Beer” for a blog that talks about the process of culturing Conan Yeast from a can of Heady Topper.

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Google recently announced two additions to their Nexus line.  Now there is a Nexus 4, Nexus 7, and Nexus 10.  

The Nexus 4 is a quad-core smartphone manufactured for Google by LG.  The Nexus 7 and 10 are 7” and 10” tablets respectively.  The Nexus 7 is manufactured for Google by Asus and has a quad-core 1.5 GHz Tegra 3 processor.  The Nexus 10 is manufactured for Google by Samsung and has a Quad-core 1.7 GHz Exynos 5250 processor.  

The Nexus 7 is $199 for the Wifi 16 GB version.  The Nexus 4 is expected to retail at $299 and The Nexus 10 is expected to be $399 for the 16GB Wifi only version.  

The Nexus 10 will also boast a 299 ppi display which will be higher than Apple’s iPad 4 264 ppi display.  All devices will be running Android Jelly Bean.  Check out the video.  What are your impressions?

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