Date: March-April 2018
Save Your Hops for Post-Boil
Outside of bittering additions, adding hops during the boil is inefficient as many of the essential oils and positive attributes being sought are lost to heat. Instead, save those hops for whirlpooling or dry hopping.
Multi-Purpose Fermentation Chamber
While there are tons of designs for fermentation chambers to be found, this build incorporates smart design, a clean look, and repurposed equipment to create a unique system.
IBUs: Modern Beers with Old Formulas – Advanced Brewing
While these approximations are reliable enough for classic hopping techniques and amounts, hopping has evolved to be more varied and aggressive.
Yeast Pitching and Propagation: Techniques
If there’s one piece I can recommend for yeast propagation, it’d be an Erlenmeyer flask. An Erlenmeyer flask is easy to close from contamination and take accurate measures in.
Burton Ale: Style Profile
Burton ale was the beer that originally put Burton on the map, beer-wise. It pre-dates IPA, and was a big export beer to the Baltic countries from about 1740 to 1822.
Gordon Strong’s Burton Ale (Pre-WWI era)
A Burton ale is a rich, malty, bitter, warming beer that has a comforting feel about it, which does make it a good winter beer. However, it traditionally was served year-round when tastes differed.This recipe was based on Burton Ales being brewed during the pre-WWI era.
Quick Carb Method To Avoid Overcarbing Keg
In my brewing opinion, the only redeeming quality of the old crank and shake method of beer carbonation is that it may properly “carbonate” beer to a desired level when correctly executed.
Yeast Slurry Comes Into Focus
The term “yeast slurry” is used by brewers to describe the pasty mixture of yeast and a liquid, usually beer. I will return to yeast slurries in a moment, but want to
Defining Yeast Slurries and Dealing With An Overcarbonated Keg: Mr Wizard
Q I just finished reading your reply to a question on re-using yeast. I’m about ready to get started doing so, most of the process is clear to me. One exception; what
Brewing Session Beers: Tips From the Pros
Brewing and enjoying a quality session beer seems to be overshadowed these days by the big hop bombs and high ABV beers. So let’s go back to the fundamentals of what makes session beers so enjoyable and how to approach brewing this category of beer.
Epic Brewing Company: Replicator
Dear Replicator, It’s been fun to watch the growth and maturing of a local brewery: Epic Brewing Co. One beer that they put out which really stands out to me is Utah