December 2014
Recipe
Lompoc Brewing Co.’s C-Sons Greetings Ale clone
According to Lompoc Brewing Co.’s website, C-Sons Greetings Ale features “A deep copper colored ale brewed and dry-hopped with all seven “C” hops for a piney, citrusy, floral and resinous aroma. Offers a full hop flavor with a rich caramel malt finish and an endless developing hop presence.”
Recipe
Anchor Brewing Co.’s Liberty Ale clone
Anchor Brewing Co.’s Liberty Ale clone (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.059 FG = 1.011 IBU = 48 SRM = 4 ABV = 5.9% Ingredients 12.5 lbs. (5.7 kg) 2-row pale
Project
Build a Recessed Mash Tun Thermometer
Install a permanent recessed thermometer in your picnic cooler mash tun.
Article
Brewing with Spices for Beginners
Spices allow for countless variations and experiments in homebrewing — in styles that require it like pumpkin ales and Belgian wits, to saisons or wheat recipes that you may want to add
Recipe
Anchor Brewing Company: Anchor California Lager clone
California Lager is Anchor’s re-creation of a lager brewed in California way back in 1876 at a brewey named Boca. It features a golden color, creamy head, and a smooth finish.
Recipe
Anchor Brewing Company: Anchor Small Beer clone (2nd Runnings)
This beer is brewed using the second runnings from a batch of Old Foghorn. Estimating the efficiency in such a scenario is quite challenging so be prepared to make some gravity adjustments upwards with dried malt extract or downwards by dumping some wort and topping off with water.
Recipe
Anchor Brewing Company: Anchor Old Foghorn (1st Runnings)
Old Foghorn is brewed using the parti-gyle method, which is brewing two batches of beer by separating the first and second runnings to create two distinct beers — one high gravity, one lower gravity. Old Foghorn is the beer made from the first runnings. Small Beer is the beer made from the second runnings.
Article
Experimental Brewing with Veggies, Pork & Chicken
To say homebrewers are a creative group is an understatement. We’ve all seen posts like this on brewing forums: “I want to brew a Dijon mustard red wine celery beer. How much
Article
Mobile Canning Lines
Mobile canners provide a great solution for small breweries that can’t afford a full-scale canning unit or don’t produce quite enough packaged beer to justify the cost.
Article
Anchor Brewing Clone Recipes & Tips
Learn the history and get brewing tips and clone recipes from San Francisco’s historic Anchor Brewing Co.
Article
Sanitizing Hard to Clean Equipment
The most frustrating aspect of homebrewing is when a batch goes bad. The only way to improve your chances of avoiding this depressing situation is to maintain the highest degree of sanitation
Article
Make Competition Medal-Worthy Homebrews
“Award-winning Homebrewer” — not a bad title. But how does one get there? What does it even mean? This article is about homebrew competitions: How they run, why to enter, and how
Article
Belgian Dubbel
by the numbers OG:1.062–1.075 (15.2–18.2 °P) FG:1.008–1.018 (2.0–4.6 °P) SRM: 10–17 IBU:15–25 ABV:6–7.6% I fondly remember my very first trip to Belgium. I was already passionate about homebrewing and great beer, and
Article
Tropical Ingredients, Hitting FG & Rauchbier: Mr. Wizard
Q Have any good recipes for pineapple or coconut ale? or any light beer recipes? I’m new so the easier the better. Kevin Hill Clemson, South Carolina A Recipes are something I
Article
Brewing with Spruce Tips: Tips from Pros
Spruce tips were common in Nordic and Scandinavian beers, and were used by colonists when hops could not be sourced (they also helped prevent scurvy). Over the past decade, Craft Brewers have
Article
Lompoc Brewing Company’s C-Sons Greetings Ale: Replicator
Dear Replicator, I think I found my favorite holiday beer even though most people wouldn’t think this is a beer style for winter. Last Thanksgiving we drove up north to Portland, Oregon
Article
Beer . . . At School?
It started as a joke. In June 2013, at the end of school party at Istituto Maria Immacolata (an Italian Catholic school in Gorgonzola, near Milan, Italy) I said to a teacher,
Recipe
The Hammer Rye IPL
Inspired by Jack’s Abby Brewing RIPL Effect, this was my attempt to brew something akin with a rye edge coming out from behind the bold hop profile. Jack’s Abby used triticale, but I used a rye malt in my brew, and also used the hops I had on hand.
Article
Advanced Dry Hopping
Understanding hop science and high-level dry hopping techniques allow you to lock in all that hop aroma.
Article
Using Specialty Malts
Always consider these specialty malts when crafting a new recipe to enhance your brew.
Mr. Wizard
Pineapple or Coconut Brewing
The Wiz gets tropical and offers first-hand insight on the Pro-Am rauchbier he was involved with brewing.
Recipe
Astronomical American Pale
An experimental batch with several new hops in my freezer. It proved to be a pungent/grassy mix with a healthy citrus and tropical fruit kick to the nose.
Recipe
Anchor Brewing Co.’s Anchor Steam clone
This beer takes its name from the days when beer was made in the cool climate of San Francisco on rooftops in the nineteenth century—open vessels were used to help cool the beer quickly. Steam is the beer that convinced Fritz Maytag to buy the brewery in 1965 and carry on the brewing tradition that started there in the late 1800s. It features a deep amber color and Northern Brewer hops.
