Date: May-June 2015
Build a Keg & Carboy Cleaner
Digital and Plus Members OnlyCleaning kegs and carboys can be a real chore. In search of a way to make it easier, The core assembly components of my cleaner are made of PVC — resulting in them being far less expensive and easier to put together. This design uses a rotating spray head to clean the body of the
Cooking with Malt Extract
Digital and Plus Members OnlyIn addition to the purpose we know it best for — making beer — malt extract can be a tremendous ingredient to keep on hand in the kitchen. Next time you find yourself with leftover extract after brewday, give it a try as a natural replacement for sugar or an addition to a recipe to
Barrel-Aged Craft Beer Clone Homebrew Recipes
Digital and Plus Members Only“Curieux is a fairly simple recipe starting with our Tripel, which is then aged in bourbon barrels and blended with another batch of fresh Tripel. The vast majority of brewers here started out homebrewing so we all get excited anytime we get to do anything homebrew-related.” – Michael O’Connor, Allagash Brewing Company Allagash Brewing Company
Oak Alternatives & Oaking Methods
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThe use of oak and other woods in flavoring beer has enjoyed a resurgence recently among homebrewers and some craft breweries. Oak is commonly used in winemaking, and was once widely used to barrel beer. If a whole barrel is not an option for you, there are other ways of getting oak into your homebrew.
The Bruery: Mash clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThe specifications for this English-style barleywine are all pre-barrel aging numbers. After aging in a bourbon barrel, the beer is above 13% ABV.
Sun King Brewing Company: Tequila Barrel-Aged Fistful of Hops clone
Digital and Plus Members Only“Fistful of Hops is a quarterly rotating seasonal IPA, which means every three months the hops change. We usually combine two to three varieties of hops together for each new release. The same varieties and proportion of hops are used all the way through the recipe including dry hopping.” – Dave Colt, Sun King Brewery
Perennial Artisan Ales’ Devil’s Heart of Gold clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThis is a recipe for Devil’s Heart of Gold, a whiskey barrel–aged wheat wine. The base beer, Heart of Gold, won a silver medal at the Great American Beer Festival in 2012.
Jester King Brewery: Das Uberkind clone
Digital and Plus Members Only“Das Uberkind is our most used and versatile barrel-aged beer. We blend it with fresh, hoppy beer to make Das Wunderkind! We use it as the base beer for most of our fruit refermentation beers, and we also package it as a standalone beer.” – Garrett Cromwell, Head Brewer, Jester King Brewery
Rockford Brewing Co.’s Rockford Country Ale clone
FREEThis unfiltered French farmhouse-style Bière de Garde ale features a copper color and the yeast lends estery notes of pear and apricot.
Allagash Brewing Company: Curieux clone
Digital and Plus Members Only“Curieux is a fairly simple recipe starting with our Tripel, which is then aged in bourbon barrels and blended with another batch of fresh Tripel.” – Michael O’Connor, Allagash Brewing Company
Brewing With Lactobacillus
FREEWhy does Brettanomyces get all of the attention when it isn’t even responsible for making sour beers sour? Lactobacillus can do in a week what takes Pediococcus a year! Lactobacillus needs a
Properly Priming Your Homebrew
Digital and Plus Members OnlyFor many people today, soda is the first beverage that comes to mind when thinking of carbonation. Yet it may well be that the first such beverage was beer. That’s because evidence suggests the early brewers, the Mesopotamians and later Egyptians, often drank their brews while they were still fermenting. Indeed, back in the Middle