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Creating a small batch beer recipe from scratch

My first beer recipe was pretty much improvised: take 3 fermentables, 3 hops and a yeast; all that in approximate amounts found online and brew to see what it gives

This time, I wanted to clone one of my favorite beers, a California Common created by a local brewery, which required a much more precise recipe
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Wort aerator

I bought an oxygenation kit, more by curiosity than conviction
It turned out to be actually a really cool little upgrade

You can, of course, get by well by shaking the fermenter for 5 minutes, especially if some empty space remains at the top, but this little device makes the task much easier and probably more efficient
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