Date: March-April 2006
Build a Cast Tap Handle: Projects
With the help of a casting kit, you can play with clay and turn your sculpture into a custom killer tap handle for your homebrew.
Calibrate Your Hydrometer and Fermenter
How accurate is your hydrometer? And how much wort is in that carboy, anyway? How to use the weight of water to calibrate your hydrometer and brewing vessels.
Maximizing Mouthfeel: Tips from the Pros
Texture tips from two professional brewers on how to manage mouthfeel for bodacious body in your brew.
Plant a Backyard Beer Garden
This beer garden doesn’t have guys in lederhosen, but it may have the ingredients for your next herb or spiced beer. Learn what plants are easy to grow to spice up your witbiers, gruit or spiced ale. You can’t get fresher ingredients than those you yank out of your beer garden on brew day.
Brewing Hoppy American Pale Ales
Hoppy American-style ales — including American pale ales, red/amber ales, IPAs and double IPAs — are the reason many homebrewers started brewing. Learn the malts, hops that start with "C", tips and tricks to brewing these beers. Plus: Pro brewers give their opinions and two homebrew recipes.
Build a Continuous Wort Hopper
Want to drop hops in your wort at a steady rate over the course of the boil? Then let us show you how to build your own over-the-top continuous wort hopper. All you need is a length of PVC pipe, a motor and the desire to brew real hop monsters. Plus: Put it to work — a clone recipe for Dogfish Head’s 60-Minute IPA.
