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Recipe Formulation: Tips from the Pros
Creating your own recipe can be one of the most fun and rewarding parts of homebrewing. It takes creativity, a bit of daring, and a basic understanding of the brewing process. Three
Beer Overboard!
Don’t Let Unruly Foam Ruin Your Brew
Brewing for Flavor: Hops
Hops can give your beer a wealth of flavors and aromas, both good and bad. The trick is knowing how to control them.
Get the Full Effect from Your Hops
The next time you have a glass of beer in front of you, pay very close attention to the hops. You’ll get three quite separate hop effects, and if it’s a well-made
Keep Cool for Summer Brewing
Five easy ways to cool your fermenting brew and other chilly advice to beat the summer heat.
Fruit Beer
I have an old photograph at home, taken at the Weinhard Brewery here in Portland, Oregon in 1906. The brewmaster is posed in front of the brew kettle in high collar, tie,
Picking the Right Yeast: Tips from the Pros
Grant Johnston Marin Brewing Co., Larkspur, California Grant Johnston looks first for a yeast with “great flavor.” When formulating a new beer, he works around the flavor of the yeast he is
Brewing Basics for Beginners
If You Can Boil Water, You Can Brew Your Own
Interview with Charlie Papazian
His voice is soft, his manner calm. In fact Charlie Papazian is amazingly mellow for someone with his schedule. Before the snow even begins to melt this spring in the mountains outside
Solve the Mystery of Decoction Mashing
As brewers, we refer to the entire process of converting the starch present in grains and adjuncts into sugar as mashing. We use the enzymes present in pale malted grains to perform
Your Own Draft System
If you brew your own beer, you know the drill. A few friends come over on brew day. The brewing process is fun and relaxing. There are plenty of natural breaks in
Better Beer with Extract Kits
So you’re a kit brewer, or perhaps you want to start brewing with kits. Maybe it’s your first brew or you’ve brewed several and are still getting things down before venturing into
