Mr. Wizard
Tap Line Length
Draft beer dispense problems involving gas breakout, the little bubbles you see in your beer lines, relate to properly balancing your draft set up. All too often, troubleshooting begins by adjusting the
Calculating Final Gravity
Calculating a beer’s final gravity, balancing draft systems.
T90 vs. T45 Hop Pellets
The Wizard explains how hop pellets are made and the effect different types of light have on wort and beer.
Carbonating High Gravity Beer
Carbonating high-gravity homebrew, the science behind purging bottles, O2-absorbing bottle caps, and filtration.
Bottling and Cask Ale
The Wiz helps a homebrewer looking for cask ale taste on a bottling budget. Plus, dry hopping in the keg.
Late Hop Additions
The Wiz discusses late hop additions, the complex issue of CO2 qualities and mash stirring.
Rehydrating Dried Yeast
The Wiz weighs in on whether to rehydrate dry yeast and defuses a bottle explosion problem.
Oxygen Concentrator Aeration
The Wiz answers a question about a device he’s never encountered before.
Yeast Starter Temperature
The Wiz warms up talking about lager yeast starters and clarifies a question about chill haze.
Sanitizing bottles in a dishwasher
I have heard the same pearls of bottle-washing wisdom you cite in your question. I have also heard similar suggestions made about all sorts of other bottle sanitizing practices and often find
Chlorinated water
You are one of those patients who comes in to the doctor’s office with a cold and already have your mind made up about the cause! Since you are convinced that you
Storing yeast starters
Reusing yeast is certainly one of those things that makes sense from a cost-savings perspective. Indeed, brewers have been harvesting yeast crops at the end of fermentation, temporarily storing the yeast and
