Articles
Recipe Formulation: Tips from the Pros
This month’s professional brewers dispense some sage advice on recipe formulation. From the basic task of learning your system to some very specific brewing formulae, these tips will take you beyond the standard brewer’s recipe-formulation software to creating your recipes by hand (with the help of basic algebra). It will also link the art to the science of brewing.
Keg Your Beers!
There’s something great about draft beer. Maybe it’s the satisfaction of pulling a tap and filling your glass, or maybe it’s the way a keg filled with homebrew says “I’m serious about beer!” Either way, at some point most hobbyists start thinking about buying a draft system and kegging their brew. Here’s how to do it. Plus: a quick look at “mini-kegs” like the Party Pig and Tap-A-Draft.
Hop to Style!
Cascade works well with a West Coast Pale Ale. Fuggle should finish an English bitter. Galena or Cluster go great with porter. Here’s a straightforward guide to picking the right hops for your favorite style of beer.
Flavor Maturation Science
What happens when green flavors go bye-bye and beer ages gracefully.
Fermentation 101 Techniques
Fermentation made easy: how to run it, what equipment to use and unsticking the stuck.
Brewing Stout: Tips from the Pros
Some expert advice on developing a well-balanced recipe for smooth stout.
Beer Minus Bacteria: Cleaning & Sanitation
Brewing is all about having fun…but there’s nothing less fun than seeing a good batch of beer ruined by sloppy sanitation. A straightforward guide to cleaning and sanitizing your brewing equipment, plus a clip-and-save chart to help you pick the best products.
Perfect Porter
Porter was born in London in 1722 and for years was the most popular pint in the working-class pubs. After nearly disappearing, the style was brought back in the 1970s and is enjoying a modern-day revival on both sides of the Atlantic. Tips, techniques and step-by-step recipes from Terry Foster, the man who literally wrote the book on porter.
Colonial Ale
Using a handwritten recipe unearthed at an eighteenth-century Virginia plantation, a homebrewer and archaeologist recreated Mrs. Cary’s Good Ale, a homemade, all-malt beer from a colonial kitchen.
Fermentation & Flavor Compound Science
How to understand flavor compounds produced during fermentation.
Wort Chilling Techniques
Your handy guide on fast, effective wort chilling to steal the heat.
Lagering: Tips from the Pros
Expert advice on better beer blending through prolonged cold storage.
