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    Winco homebrew supplies

    Sounds like you have a great location. It's all fermentation, and folks have been making good food with that for just about forever. Right now we've got brine-fermented peppers going, and make sauerkraut, pickles, vinegar, wine, beer..bread..miso..cheese.... The big challenge is keeping the...
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    Winco homebrew supplies

    We used to be within walking distance from a craft brewery that was nearby. They got bought out and the new owners shut it down. Sure smelled good when they were brewing. Now I have to make my own good smells :D.
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    Winco homebrew supplies

    Today we were buying groceries at Winco (a west-coast discount grocery chain) when I saw something in the bulk food section that resulted in a "did I really see what I think I saw???" moment. It was items for doing homebrew -- all grain or extract, your choice. Not a huge range of selections...
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    Lake Grove OR

    I sort of follow the seasons. Darker beers in fall/winter, lighter (but not TOO light) in warmer weather. Two of my more successful brews were a witbier style that by total accident came out tasting very close to Deschutes Chainbreaker -- the bittering components included grapefruit peel --...
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    Lake Grove OR

    Thanks for the warm welcome! In my experience, in some ways wine making is easier, at least as far as hygiene is concerned. Wine has less of a tendency to go bad, maybe due to the higher alcohol and fruit acids in the wine. I pay a lot more attention to cleanliness when I make beer, compared...
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    Lake Grove OR

    Hello from Lake Grove! We're situated just a little south of Portland, Oregon, sharing the property with a little grove of 200 year-old Doug Fir trees. I've been making beer and wine for some time now. On the beer side, I started with Papazian's book and malt extracts, and about 2 years ago...
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    Dechlorination

    First post here, although longtime brewer. For a long time, our local water district did not have to chlorinate our water, which was great for brewing/winemaking. But a few years back they had to start chlorinating, and it's a concern particularly w/regard to brewing. I've done some online...

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