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Long Islanders make beer at home for fun and profit

Craig Belson, 27, of Valley Stream, proudly took a sip of the spiced brown ale he brewed back in November as he steeped a muslin bag in a stock pot that sat on two burners. "I can't wait to see how this one turns out," said the smiling home brewer of two years, as he patiently watched brown drippings from the three-pound bag of grain fall into the pot of what eventually would become a porter.

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