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Hit Your Target Gravity
When your neighborhood pub stops serving your favorite English bitter, what can you do? Make your own, of course. Homebrewers thrive on the challenge of recreating the round malts and bracing hops
Märzen and Oktoberfest
A recipe and a how-to brewing guide to Marzen, the beer that’s so special Germans brew it in March and don’t serve it until fall.
10 Tips for Hop Growers
It’s planting season again. BYO’s hop gardener offers some ways to make this year’s crop healthier and more productive.
Rauchbier
I have had some memorable experiences with beer, and some of the best have been with my wife, Elizabeth: drinking bitter and playing gin rummy at Spinnaker’s (she cheats!); smuggling bottles of
Specialty Grains: Tips from the Pros
Brewer: Tim Schwartz Brewery: Bitter End Brewing, Austin, Texas Years of Experience: Two Education: Five years homebrewing House Beers: EZ Wheat, Bitter End Bitter, Aberdeen Amber, Austin Pale Ale, Hammerhead Porter, and
Brew Beer that Matches Your Water
Once upon a time, brewers created beer styles by matching local ingredients. Hops were scarce in rocky Scotland, so Scottish ales are malty and lightly hopped. Local microflora in certain valleys in
Start Your Own Brewery
Three industry insiders offer advice on opening and running a successful microbrewery or brewpub.
Brewing with Coffee
It’s just one of those things, I suppose, but the combination of beer and coffee, for me, is among the most intriguing possibilities in the world. Ideally my day is divided into
Lager: Pale Pilsner to Malty Munich
A Step-by-step guide to brewing great lagers. Recipes included!
American Wheat
Charting the New American Wheat Beer
Batch-to-Batch Consistency: Tips from the Pros
Brewer: Robert Moline Brewery: Little Apple Brewing, Manhattan, Kan. Years of experience: Eight House Beers: Wildcat Wheat, Custer’s Gold (American blond ale), Fort Riley Rye, Big Red Ale (amber), Prairie Pale Ale,
Bulk Up Your Sparge Technique
Eliminate the need to balance inflow and outflow by sparging with a batch method. It may take the same amount of time as traditional trickle-method sparging, but it requires much less maintenance.