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• Frozen tap lines: Mr. Wizard (Jul/Aug 2009)

  • The Wiz keeps his cool in an answer about freezing tap lines.

• Mead Made Man: Last Call (Jul/Aug 2009)

  • Man, meet mead. Mead, meet Man.

• Aerating wort: Techniques (Jul/Aug 2009)

  • Your chilled wort needs oxygen to keep the yeast healthy — here’s how to deliver it.

• Well Water: Mr. Wizard (Jul/Aug 2009)

  • The Wiz makes waves in an answer about well water.

• 2009 Label Contest Winners (Jul/Aug 2009)

  • Some brewers aren’t done when their beer is in the bottle — their fun is just beginning as it’s time for designing a beer label. Drawn from hundreds of entries, we present the winners of this year’s label contest.

• Corking Belgians: Article (Jul/Aug 2009)

  • Want your Belgian beers to look as good as they taste? Find out the tools and techniques required to package your beers just like the Belgians do.

• Build an in-line aerator: Projects (Jul/Aug 2009)

  • Want cool, aerated wort flowing from your counterflow chiller? Build your own in-line aerator.

• Attenuation: Advanced Brewing (Jul/Aug 2009)

  • Nobody expects Diminished Attenuation!

• Mild Ale: Style Profile (Jul/Aug 2009)

  • If you think mild ale isn’t the most exciting name for a beer, look at it this way, it’s better than stale ale. Keeping the historical considerations of mild and stale ale in mind, we take a fresh look at mild ale.

• Oxygenating wort: Tips from the Pros (Jul/Aug 2009)

  • Three professional brewers discuss the oxygenation of chilled wort.

• Homebrew Nation: July/August 2009 ( 2009)

  • A chili pepper beer turns up the heat, brewing Belgian beers and leaping lighthouses, it’s an anniversary ale. Plus: the Replicator clones Laht Neppur’s American Hefeweizen

• Filtration (Jul/Aug 2009)

  • Sure your beer is clear, but is it crystal clear? If you want to reach that next level of clarity, come review the theory and practice of filtering beer at home. 

• Six Summer Beer Clones (Jul/Aug 2009)

  • The mercury is rising and so is your thirst. If you’d like to make some beer that is as flavorful as it is thrist-quenching, we’ve got six summertime brews to cure the summertime blues — Goose Island Summer Kölsch, Firestone Walker ‘Lil Opal, Harpoon Summer Beer, Brooklyn Summer Ale, Anderson Valley Summer Solstice Cerveza Crema and Magic Hat Hocus Pocus.