Date: November 2014
Homebrew Rivalry
Digital and Plus Members OnlyMy identical twin brother, Jay, and I have been rivals since we were young; from sports to school to girlfriends, and even barbecue’n. There was this one time when we were both into grilling ribs and each of us thought that we had the best ribs on the planet. After a long night of “sampling”
Session IPA Clones
Digital and Plus Members OnlyIt is no secret that the best-selling craft beer style category in the USA is IPA. We have a variety of official IPA beer styles, including British IPA, American IPA and imperial IPA. Add to that double IPA and Black IPA (or Cascadian Dark Ale). We are even starting to see variations like white IPA,
Single Varietal Mead Making
Digital and Plus Members OnlyIn its simplest form mead is a fermented beverage made from honey and water. The key to making fantastic meads is your honey, so don’t think of honey as a generic ingredient — it’s so much more. Honey is a complex mixture of sugars, flavors from the pollen as well as trace enzymes, minerals, vitamins,
The Forced Ferment Test
Digital and Plus Members OnlyA forced ferment is a test used by many professional brewers and brewery labs to determine the minimum final gravity possible from a freshly-made batch of wort. By diverting a sample of wort from the main batch and causing it to undergo a rapid fermentation — through some combination of overpitching, elevated temperature, and/or agitation or
Bohemian Pilsner
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThe pale, bitter, hoppy lager known best to American homebrewers as Bohemian Pilsner and typified by the classic example Pilsner Urquell is also called Czech Pilsner, Czech Premium Pale Lager, Svetly Lezak, Svetle Specialni Pivo, or simply Pilsner. But why does it have so many names? The answer depends mostly on who you are, where
Bohemian Pilsner (Michael Agnew)
Digital and Plus Members OnlyMichael won Gold in 2010 in the National Homebrew Competition (NHC) with this recipe.
Bohemian Pilsner (James Golovich)
Digital and Plus Members OnlyJames won Best of Show at the 2008 Grant County Fair with this recipe.
Bohemian Pilsner (Ted Hausotter)
Digital and Plus Members OnlyTed has won several awards for this recipe, the best of which was second place Best of Show at the Masters Championship of Amateur Brewing (MCAB) in 2000.
Bohemian Pilsner (Randy Scorby)
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThis recipe was the runner up Best of Show at the 2014 Central Oregon Homebrewer’s Organization Spring Fling in Bend, Oregon with this recipe.
German-Style Pilsener
Digital and Plus Members Only3 different hop varieties add character to this crisp and bitter German-style Pilsener.
German Pilsener
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThe Pils — short for Pilsner or Pilsener — is the northern German adaptation of the world’s first-ever blond lager, the original Czech Plzensky Prazdroj, which is more commonly known by its German name of Pilsner Urquell. The Plzensky Prazdroj was first brewed in 1842, in the Bohemian city of Plzen (Pilsen), by the Mestansky
Build a Custom Beer Fridge
Digital and Plus Members OnlyAfter years of homebrewing, we had dialed in a few recipes that we really liked. However, with each batch we brewed, there was always some variation in the final product. After doing a bit of research and speaking with other homebrewers, it became glaringly obvious that fermentation temperature played a much larger role in the