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Beat the Heat
Hot summer temperatures can make chilling and fermenting more difficult, but with these techniques you won’t need to sweat it when things heat up.
Beers From the Top of the World
“Denmark?” my wife asks, slightly incredulously. “Denmark,” I say. It was Valentine’s Day 2010 and my wife and I had just finished up a fairly extensive beer tasting of commercial offerings of
The Blind Collaboration Brew
Often touted with pride amongst the brewing community is the fact that brewing is both an art and a science – well this veers well into the art territory.
Hop Extracts – Advanced Brewing
These hop extracts roughly fall into two categories, those primarily intended to add bitterness and those where aromatics are the goal.
Ingredient Sensory Methods
The one thing all beer ingredients have in common is that they’re a perishable product.
American Wheat – Style Profile
The overall impression for the style is refreshing, often dry and somewhat crisp, highly carbonated, with a bready wheat flavor and a complementary hop character.
Digging into the Haze, Cacao Nibs Advice and Harvesting Yeast
Proteins from grains react with polyphenols from grain and hops, and when this happens the protein-polyphenol complex causes light to scatter and the beer to appear hazy.
Bierstadt Lagerhaus – Replicator
Dear Replicator, I moved to the Denver area this spring and an old friend took me out for a night on the town to acclimate me to the environment. Our first stop
Bottle Prime Your Beer
Carbonating while a beer is in a bottle, also know as bottle priming or conditioning, is the most common carbonation method for beginner homebrewers. But also many experienced homebrewers and commercial breweries utilize this technique as well.
Yeast Management: Tips From the Pros
Yeast are a keystone piece in the development of our beers. Provide them with proper room and board, treat them with respect, and these microbes will work miracles. Learn from two masters
Regional Retro Beers
After Prohibition, U.S. beer was almost completely homogenized down to a style that we now call American lager or American Pilsner. But if you ask Grandpa about his favorite beer, the talk about hardship fades away and his eyes grow soft misty.
Designing Bottle Labels
With the holiday season here, it’s probably crossed your mind that homebrew makes a great gift for family, friends, co-workers and anyone else who wound up on the “nice” list this year.
