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Managing Mash Thickness
Understanding your mash gives you more control over the brewing process. The ins and outs of mashing in, mash temperatures, and mash thickness.
Easy Steps to Great Sparkling Wine
Easy steps to great sparkling wine
Brewing with Coffee: Tips from the Pros
Finding balance with coffee beer
Barleywine
Barleywine has an undeniable mystique; it is unique as a style and experience. Each year’s vintage is anxiously awaited to sample and to savor. Each brewer has his own special methods, ingredients,
Understanding Yeast Attentuation
Knowing how to check attenuation can give you more control of the way you create recipes.
Fermentation Timeline
Take control of fermentation by learning what to expect at each stage. With this understanding, you’ll be able to identify difficulties before they become real problems.
The Growth of Wood
Using wood in brewing is a long-standing practice, and many craft brewers are experimenting with oak aging today. You can use wood in your brew, too.
Eisbock: Brew the Beer Money Can’t Buy
Delicious eisbock is expensive to produce on a large scale and must be aged. The unwillingness of larger breweries to produce it gives it a mystique, and it makes a great addition to any brewer’s beer cellar.
Alpha-Hop Soup: Figuring Bitterness (IBUs, AAUs and HBUs)
Figuring Bitterness: IBUs, AAUs, and HBUs.
Flavors of Specialty Malt
Only with specialty malts can brewers achieve the full flavor and mouthfeel that are the trademarks of craft beer.
Making Port at Home
A lot of people don’t really care for sweet wines, but Port can be a wonderful and complex beverage. Though it may not be widely consumed in this country, there are
Improve Your Cask Conditioned Beer
Farmers in England can still be persuaded to make the extra effort to grow top-quality barley for brewing. British farmers work from a list of approved barley varieties, and these varieties command
