Date: December 2017
Build a Keg Washer
Digital and Plus Members OnlyIf you’re like me and you own more than four corny kegs (I own 26), then cleaning them by hand is a real drag. After working in a professional brewery for years and seeing the beauty and convenience of a keg washing system, I decided to build my own. Most homebrewers start with a submersible
Bombing Range Brewing Co.’s Medusa Dry Hopped Pale clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThis beer from Bombing Range Brewing (Richland, Washington) had limited availability but was easily one of the best using MedusaTM that I personally had. Founder and Head Brewer Mike Hopp describes it as a smooth, easy drinker with huge stone fruit and apricot flavors and aroma.
Mexican Lager
Digital and Plus Members OnlyA sub-style of the International Pale Lager, Gordon Strong provides a nice example of the way a Mexican Lager could and should be brewed.
Oskar Blues Brewery’s Pinner clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyPinner targets quaffability on multiple fronts – with smooth but apparent bitterness, just enough mouthfeel and an array of hop flavors that are not only supported by the malt, but married to it. Tropical citrus, light pine with a toasted malt accent.
Oskar Blues Brewery’s IPA clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyPleasant and drying bitterness brings citrus, melon, pepper, and wine grape aromas and flavors alive in this exclusively Australian-hopped, West Coast style IPA.
Oskar Blues Brewery’s Death by Coconut clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThis porter is packed full of intense malt flavor and then infused with pure liquid cacao and loads of dried coconut. A balance of intensities!
Oskar Blues Brewery’s Beerito clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyInspired by the clean amber lagers of Mexico and melded with malt flavors in Munich dunkels, this lager shows off what a maltster can do, and packs it in an easy-drinking 4.5% beer. Beerito is all about a complexity of subtle flavor with underlying tones of chocolate, caramel, walnuts, and toasted grain.
Oskar Blues Brewery’s Dale’s Pale Ale clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyDale’s Pale Ale is an iconic American pale ale, balancing caramel and biscuit malt and fruity, citrusy, piney hops. The first craft beer in a can comes with a little extra oompf at 6.5% ABV — just enough to cap off a solid day in the mountains!
Shoreline Brewery’s Seven Red Rye Ale Clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThis beer comes by its name honestly, with seven malts in the grist, four of which are rye malts (or five if you opt for chocolate rye). The malts pair nicely with noble hops and American hops to double-down on the fresh floral aromas and adds some bright citrus tones as well.
Learn the Rules of Pitching
FREEThere are few things more defeating to a homebrewer than to check on the fermenter containing sweet wort crafted two days earlier, only to find no signs of life in the fermenter.
Hydrometer Isn’t Reading Correctly
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThe short answer to your question is that this offset is linear, and you can simply subtract 0.004 from the measured density at 60 ˚F (16 °C) to correct for the error with your hydrometer. You can also correct for deviation from the calibration temperature by referring to a correction table, or using a hydrometer
Setting the Record Straight on Mash pH
FREEThere are some answers that I write where I know that I am stepping into a gray area, and my very brief sidebar about pH jumped square in the middle of the