If you are looking to master brewing, you must get to know your ingredients… below you will find some resources to help you do just that… Hops – Here’s a list of common hops, what they are and how to use them. In this blog you’ll also find some common hopping techniques and links to various ...…
Clear beer in equals clear beer out… In order to brew clear beer, many homebrewers follow the practice of fermenting clear wort (no trub, hop junk, etc.)… Seems to be a logical assumption, but I’ve been playing around with this theory and have found some interesting results… For some batches after the boil, I siphon my wort ...…
It’s safe to say that about 85 to 95% of beer is made up of water… therefore, water can have a great influence on the taste of your beer…. however, the best water for home brewing varies greatly depending on whether you are brewing using extract, all grain, or on the the style of beer ...…
A ‘malty’ beer is not always a sweet beer… no way… They don’t always finish with a high gravity either… it all depends on what you want and how you go about getting there… With all grain brewing malty beers are brewed by mashing at higher temperatures… with extract you do it mostly by using specialty grains ...…
If your airlock stopped bubbling early then there’s possibly three major things that could’ve gone wrong (and dozens of little details)… 99% of your problems will be solved by focusing on the three main issues… the first and most likely reason for yeast to stop bubbling early is not pitching a good amount of healthy ...…
I’m not sure if I’ve ever shared my story about how I got into beer… When I was younger… not even old enough to drink (shhh…) my uncle and dad teamed up to brew beers using all kinds of ingredients… their first one, a wheat beer… Their second one a milkshake-smooth porter… … and last, a rye PA… I ...…
Fermentation turns sugars into alcohol… without fermentation, you would not be able to sit back, sip on your brew and feel good afterwards… It just wouldn’t happen… Which is why you need to know if your beer is fermenting or not and what to do if you find out it is not… and it really isn’t that ...…
Day in and day out a new brewer will pitch their yeast, snap on their airlock and 24 hours later freak out because their beer is not fermenting… and nine times out of ten it’s because they are not seeing airlock activity… Perhaps their airlock hasn’t started bubbling yet, or maybe it did start bubbling, but ...…
Beer styles range from pale straw yellow pilsners to jet black stouts and everything in between… the water you will use for each one of these beers will be significantly different… The best water for pilsners will often be the worst water for stouts and vice versa… To figure out if you are using the best water ...…
Some of the most common beer fermentation problems I see new brewers come across are 1) beer doesn’t start fermenting right away 2) beer starts fermenting too soon… The first problem is usually the one new brewers worry about the most… if they don’t see their airlock bubbling, they immediately begin to think of reasons why… ...…
Barley, yeast, hops and water is all you need to make beer either at home or a full blown brewery… Barley contains starches, which you can think of as long chained complex sugars… those starches are converted into simple sugars like sucrose, maltose, etc…. and those are the sugars we use to make beer… Brewing beer ...…
Try out this German hop variety in your next German brew… this hop variety is not to be confused with the original Hallertauer Mittelfruh, or the other German varieties like Traditional or Gold… Best known as an aroma hop with a very mild, somewhat spicy and somewhat flowery kick… Storageability is somewhat fair with the hop retaining ...…
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