Date: May-June 2020
Root Down Brewing Co.’s Bine clone
FREEBine should be near brilliant clarity and a burnished golden color with moderate high carbonation. The hop aroma and flavor are intense and feature passion fruit, papaya, grapefruit, lemon rind, pine, and resin. The strong hop bitterness is firm but not abrasive while the dry finish keeps you coming back for more.
Help Wanted: Yeast Wrangler. Repitching is a skill all brewers should know
FREERepitching yeast is a technique that many brewers perform. Get some concise principles to make sure you’re making the best use of any freshly harvested yeast.
Marketing and Branding: Understanding the core components
FREEBranding your brewery is a task that may not be taken seriously by many. Brewery-owner Cameron Johnson takes a journey through some of the key concepts to creating your brand.
2020 Homebrew Father’s Day Gift Guide
FREEReminder time . . . Sunday, June 21st is Father’s Day. What better way to honor your favorite man, father, husband, partner, or friend than with one of these fine homebrewing products. Nothing says “I Love You” to a homebrewer quite like a gift of a fine new piece of equipment or beer-related goodie. And if you are the dad looking for homebrew gifts, try leaving
these pages open with a big circle around the items you want. Don’t leave them guessing — unless you want another World’s Best Dad coffee mug.
Ferment it All! Attack of the Juicy Juice boxes
FREEJuice boxes, but never drank them? One man decided to ferment it all!
The Modular Worterator: Post-boil brew day needs in one unit
Digital and Plus Members OnlyLast issue we brought you the all-in-one homebrewery cleaning system. In this issue we have for you the all-in-one post-boil system — whirlpool, filter, chill, and aerate your wort with the Worterator.
Cutting Calories, Not Flavor
Digital and Plus Members Only“Light” or “low-calorie” beers make up a huge segment of beer sales for macrobreweries, which leads some to believe a beer needs to be bland in flavor in order to be low in calories. However, there are techniques and ingredients that can be used to cut calories in any beer style for those who want to enjoy a tasty homebrew while also watching their calorie-intake.
Low-Cal Rye Brut IPA
Digital and Plus Members OnlyRye Brut IPA (5 gallon/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.039 FG =1.005IBU = 20 SRM = 4 ABV = 4.5% This is out attempt to brew a beer full of flavor but low in calories Ingredients7.4 lbs. (3.4 kg) pale malt1.25 lbs. (0.57 kg) rye malt6.75 AAU Columbus hops (15 min.) (0.5 oz./14 g at 13.5%
Biotransformation
FREEThe word “biotransformation” has gotten a lot of buzz as brewers look to fermentation — and specifically, yeast — to transform the aroma of hops. Learn what exactly biotransformation is, how it occurs, and how homebrewers can use it to our advantage.
The Evolution of IPA
FREE“I used to be with ‘it,’ but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!” –
Unmalted Adjuncts: It’s okay to flake out sometimes
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThere is a lot of negativity surrounding certain unmalted cereal grains. Many folks think they will cheapen a beer. Denny and Drew are here to set the record straight on this matter.
Sapwood Cellars’ Cheater X clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlySapwood Cellars’ Cheater X clone (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.079 FG = 1.026IBU = 80+ SRM = 4.5 ABV = 7.1% This is the culmination of what we learned during our first year of brewing hazy IPAs. It utilizes two of our favorite “cheater” hops for dry hopping for an intense aroma of