May-June 2007
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Two IPA Recipes
All the IPA recipes that are fit to print (but we couldn’t fit in the magazine!)
Recipe
Red Car Brewing’s Two Rail Pale Ale
If you are looking for a classic American pale ale with a Cascade, Willamette hop profile, here is a great recipe. While it is called a pale ale, this beer will really land you more in the red/amber category than pale.
Mr. Wizard
How do you tame wild yeasts?
Most brewers have heard horror stories about wild yeast and certain bacteria, like Lactobacillus and Pediococcus, setting up camp in a brewery and contaminating everything in sight. I think these stories originated
Mr. Wizard
Extract vs all-grain brewing?
This is a pretty heavy question because it hits to the foundation of homebrewing. The way I see it, homebrewing is about brewing your own beer. Mashing is certainly part of what
Recipe
Route 66 IPA
Route 66 IPA (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.068 FG = 1.017 IBU = 66 SRM = 11 ABV = 6.6% Ingredients 10 lb. 12 oz. (4.9 kg) English 2-row
Recipe
Groom Lake IPA
Here’s an American IPA especially formulated by top BYO scientists for
stovetop extract brewers, not reverse engineered from an all-grain
recipe. Follow the instructions as closely as possible — especially with
regards to boil volume — for the best results.
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Summer Recipes
Looking for a few summer brewing ideas? Check out some bonus summer recipes from homebrew shops across the US.
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Fermentability
Your beer’s final gravity is determined by the fermentability of the wort and the action of the yeast. Find out how to control these factors in your homebrews.
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Make Your Plastic Bucket Fantastic
Leaky lids or shards from shattered glass? That’s not how we roll. Check out how we pimp a bucket to be a fizzabulous fermanizzle . . . uh, or something.
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Selecting Hops: Tips from the Pros
Two pros — Jeremy Marshall (Lagunitas) and Richard Norgrove, Jr. (Bear Republic) — hop to it and give our readers the low down on picking the right lupulin delivery vector.
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Keeping It Cool
Maintaining the correct temperature is important throughout the brewing process. Here, we present a “field guide” to temperatures on the cold side.
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IPA: A Tale of Two Beer Styles
Find out about two related hoppy beer styles — English-style India pale ales (IPAs) and American-style IPAs
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Yearly Brewery Checkup
Once a year it pays to give your brewery the once-over. Clean everything that needs to be cleaned, check your inventory, map out your brewing calendar and the only surprise you’ll have all year is how smoothly your brew days proceed.
