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Prevent Contaminated Beer: Tips from the Pros
Brewer: Mark Matheson Brewery: Assets Grille & Southwest Brewing Co., Albequerque, N.M. Years of experience: Four Education: Bachelor’s degree in fermentation science from University of California, Davis House Beers: Cactus Kölsch, Duke
Plotting OG with a Graph
How to calculate specific gravity with a handy graph.
Craft Dream: A Homebrewer’s Story
Michael Bryant first experimented with fermentation at age 13, when he discovered a recipe for orange wine in his mother’s Old Mr. Boston drink guide. He followed the directions, bottled the mixture
More Gear for Beer
Adding new equipment helps you make better beer, every time. Here’s a quick guide to the gadgets every homebrewer wants.
Making Big Holiday Beers
It’s the time of year for holiday beers! Many of these heavyweight winter seasonals are high-alcohol brews — monster beers that are big, malty and have a bite. You don’t have to be a mad scientist to make one, but brewing a high-gravity beer involves much more than piling on the malt. Your guide to brewing huge holiday beers, complete with eight recipes.
Milling Grain: Tips from the Pros
All about milling your own grains.
Micro-Maltster
Thick leather belts rhythmically rattle sturdy, dust laden, story-striding machinery into action. Iron clogs clatter. Ancient pulleys wheeze. There is a sweet smell in the air. The atmosphere is Victorian. This is
Craft Dream: Brewing the First Beer
This is the final installment of a
three-part series on homebrewer Michael Bryant’s effort to open a microbrewery in Dunedin, Fla.
Lager Tools and Techniques: Techniques
There’s more to fermenting a lager than just keeping it cool. Learn the tools and techniques to make your lager a success.
Keeping It Cool
Maintaining the correct temperature is important throughout the brewing process. Here, we present a “field guide” to temperatures on the cold side.
International Lagers
They’re here. They’re there. They’re everywhere — those ubiquitous light lagers like Heineken, Grolsch and Becks in their green bottles. Learn how to brew one at home (and learn a few new techniques — including cereal mashing and high-gravity brewing — while you’re at it). Plus: the skunk factor.
Hopping Help for Extract Brewers
Are you an extract brewer who needs help making hoppier homebrew? Find out what factors influence hop bitterness and what you need to do to reach your target IBUs. Also, identify the beer styles you can successfully brew givenyour homebrew equipment and procedures.