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November / December 2025
Brewing Beer
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November / December 2025
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Tips & Troubleshooting

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November / December 2025
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Ingredients

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November / December 2025
Equipment
Equipment

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November / December 2025
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November / December 2025
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November / December 2025

July/August 2012

Learn to brew great beer with American hops, get real making cask ales, build a brew system water filter, and tips for repitching beer yeast.

In this issue

article
Reading a Water Report for Beginners
By Betsy Parks
recipe
The Tri-Centennial DIPA
By Justin Burnsed
A big honker of a DIPA with strong orange/grapefruit, character of Centennial hops coming out in this classic West-Coast style DIPA.
recipe
Matt Gauzza’s Imperial IPA
By Matt Gauzza • Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Simcoe®/Amarillo® is one of the great hop combos in modern craft brewing. Homebrewer Matt Guazza supplies BYO with an imperial IPA recipe with a nice malt backbone to compliment this hop pairing.
article
DIY Water Filter
By Christian Lavender
article
Fermentation Temperature Control
By Chris Bible
article
Homebrewing Cask Ales
By Dave Louw
article
Brewing Hoppy American-Style Beers
By Justin Burnsed
article
Belgian Dark Strong Ale
By Jamil Zainasheff
article
Final Gravity Woes & Hop Bursting: Mr. Wizard
By Ashton Lewis
article
Choosing the Right Yeast: Tips from Pros
By Betsy Parks
article
Glacier BrewHouse’s Imperial Blonde Ale: Replicator
By Marc Martin
mr-wizard
What is hopbursting?
By Ashton Lewis
mr-wizard
Hitting final gravities
By Ashton Lewis
article
The House of Heileman
By Bill Pierce
The rise and fall of an American brewery. How investment hijinks brought down a brewing empire. Plus: the keys to kräusening — and an Old Style clone recipe.
article
Repitching Yeast
By Terry Foster
Get more mileage from your yeast, plus fine tune your pitching rate — how and when to repitch.
article
2012 BYO Label Contest Winners
By BYO Staff
Check out the winners of the 2012 BYO Label Contest.