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Brewing Historical Porter with Brett
Historically, porter was transferred in oak casks, which very likely contributed Brettanomyces to the brew. Can that phenomenon be recreated?
Evaluating Beer: Tips from the Pros
Michelle Brown, Steve Parkes and Gordon Strong give tips on tasting your homebrew critically.
Malt on the Menu
Homebrewers aren’t the only folks who know the wonders of malt extract. Cooks also admire this sweet substance. See how extract can be added to bread, ice cream and BBQ sauces to put a little malt on your menu.
Corking Belgian-Style Homebrews
Want your Belgian beers to look as good as they taste? Find out the tools and techniques required to package your beers just like the Belgians do.
Australian Pale Ale
This article takes a look at Australian pale ale, as typified by Coopers Sparkling Ale — a beer with an unlikely name and an even more unlikely yeast sediment. Michael Jackson once described this beer as an Australian classic.
Brown Malt
It has been known as blown, porter and snap malt, but homebrewers know it as brown malt, if they know it at all. Its mellow roast character, cheeky bitterness and acrid finish has warmed the cockles of many an Englishman over the centuries. It was once a malt of choice for many dark brews, especially porters and stouts. However, improvements in malting technology — including the development of pale base malts with better yields and dark specialty malts with more color — led to its decline. And it almost faded into brewing history. Almost. Today, a few maltsters — including Crisp, Thomas Fawcett and Sons, Hugh Baird and Beeston — produce brown malt and many homebrewers are discovering what made this lightly-roasted malt so popular in the past. Brown malt is back.
Brewing in the Stone Age
We talk with the brewers at Stone Brewing about their aggressive beers and how they brew them. Plus: Six clones for the Stone-aged homebrewer.
Rolling Kegerator
The next time you go to a party, roll out the barrel . . . or at least the Corny kegs. Build this rolling kegerator with a small, on-board CO2 system.
Anatomy of a Commercial Clone Recipe Kit
Take a look inside the process of making a clone beer kit. We ask commercial kit producers — and the brewers of the beers they cloned — how they formulated the recipe and produced the kit.
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
Yearly Brewery Checkup
Once a year it pays to give your brewery the once-over. Clean everything that needs to be cleaned, check your inventory, map out your brewing calendar and the only surprise you’ll have all year is how smoothly your brew days proceed.
Tune Up Your Equipment
The old adage about an ounce of prevention certainly holds true when it comes to taking care of brewing equipment. Many problems can be avoided simply by taking a few extra minutes
