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Refurbishing a Sabco BrewMagic V350
Sabco is out of business, but your BrewMagic isn't dead
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Brew Magic Mods: Loc-line and Whirlpool
My last article sparked some questions about my Brew Magic Mods. Below, you will find the two most requested, and parts list. Warning: If your Brew Magic V350MS is still under warranty, I do not recommend making substantial changes to the kettles. Most of the parts may be purchased at
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Practical Guide - Low Oxygen Brewing on the Brew-Magic
Discussions of brewing with low oxygen have returned to the home brewing world with some controversy. I will be using LO2 as a short cut to describe what has been termed LoDO or low oxygen brewing. If you follow this blog, you are aware that I have been exploring low
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Brew-day Walkthrough. Therapy. Meditation.
Brewing, for me, has become therapy, almost meditation. If you are allergic to overly romantic or nostalgic posts, look away, but I am stopping short of writing poetry. I suck at that anyway. Here’s how I brew, with an overly sentimental focus on rhythms and senses. Forgive the grammar
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Malt Crush: Getting Nerdy with your Mill
Milling is one of those things that all grain brewers fret over at some point. Mills can be finicky, get stuck, wear out, yet they can be a key to adding consistency in the brew house. Still we fiddle with the gap looking for that perfect setting. The internet is
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Brewday in Pictures and Video
We have some wonderful weather here in Central Texas during wintertime... truly the most redeeming quality of this area. That and crazy good BBQ. Anyway - an A/V document of my brew day... a truly beautiful day and most everything went extremely well. [playlist type="video" ids="
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Hopback, a shiny new toy in the brewery
For a while I have been looking for a solution to limit the amount of hop and hot break material that may get trapped in my plate chiller. I use a Chill Wizard system, from Sabco, which integrates a pump, a plate chiller, inline oxygen stone and thermometer into a
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Brewing with a Friend… or Adopta’Brewer™
One of the joys of home brewing is sharing the results with friends, and even better, making new friends through the experience. Just over a year ago, a new home was built across the street, and I took some beer over to introduce ourselves. He realized just how deeply I
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Practical Guide to Efficiency and the Brew-Magic
I continue to field a lot of questions about efficiency (especially on the Brew-Magic) and I thought I would try to clear up a few myths, and give some practical advice. While this is generally applicable to any brewing style, I am going to focus on the Brew-Magic
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Brew Day, Immediate Thoughts... Magic Soft Upgrade
Just washed up, finished. 5.5 hours from heating liquor to knock out to fermenter. Had a neighbor come over part way, made cleaning a lot more efficient. So, very simple 10.5 gallon SMaSH recipe, Otter SMaSH Nelson: 20# Marris Otter, milled twice with a new 0.040"
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Brew-Magic Upgrade, the Recipe Function
In my previous post on the Magic-Soft V3 update for the Brew-Magic V350, I walked through my perceptions of how the Brew-Magic performed with the software update, and was very pleasantly surprised at the ease of hitting strike temperatures. I have had a few more chances to
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Brew Day - Brew Magic Upgrade, Initial Thoughts
I promised to write up and compare brewing before the software upgrade and after. I realize this is for a very small audience, so will keep this fairly succinct. I intentionally brewed as I would have in the past, without using any of the recipe functions. I will use the