July 1999
Mr. Wizard
Cold conditioning kegs
I prefer to cold condition after carbonation, because you can aggressively remove yeast by racking the beer from keg to keg without worrying about having enough yeast in the beer at bottling
Mr. Wizard
Storing wort after mashing
Some brewers use a technique called flotation to separate cold trub (the solid matter) formed during wort cooling from the wort. The old method of flotation occurs before yeast is pitched and
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Personalizing Your Wine Package
Summer is approaching, and if you haven’t already, it’s probably time to start thinking about what to do with all that wine you made last harvest season (well, besides drink it). The
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Brewing Hempen Ale
The brewer who developed Hempen Ale and Hempen Gold tells us how he created the popular and controversial beers.