Date: November 2022
2022 Holiday Gift Guide
FREEThis holiday season give the gift of beer! Check out all of the great beer gear on the next few pages for some gift ideas for friends and family or make your own homebrew holiday wishlist…
By The Pint: Enjoying traditional British ales for 50 years
FREEA homebrewer realizes that his 50th anniversary of loving British ales is coming up. He reflects back on his past with both the traditional ales from the island nation as well as his relationship with craft beer through the years
Don’t Forget Your Lines! How and why you should clean your draft lines
FREEMost nanobrewers spend a lot of time on their cleaning and sanitation protocol for cellar equipment. Are the taprooms where their beer is being poured doing the same?
Gordon Strong’s Grape Ale
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThis grape ale example is based on the version I made with Cervejaria 4 Árvores in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2018.
Crystal Malts: Tips from the Pros
Digital and Plus Members OnlyIn addition to lending color and flavor to beer, crystal malts enhance body and help with foam stability. Three pros make the best ways to use crystal malt crystal clear.
2022 Label Contest Winners
FREEThe winning homebrew labels from BYO’s 2022 Label Contest, which really show off the creativity of homebrewers from around the world.
Bring on the Warmth
Digital and Plus Members OnlyGet tips and recipes for brewing three high-ABV styles — barleywine, wheatwine, and imperial stout — that you can brew now to help shake off the frost in the dead of winter.
Winter’s Imperial Stout
Digital and Plus Members OnlyImperial Stout Recipe (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.097 FG = 1.027IBU = 70 SRM = 100 ABV = 9.5% Ingredients12 lbs. (5.4 kg) U.K. pale ale malt3 lbs. (1.4 kg) Munich II malt (9 °L)1 lb. (454 g) flaked oats1.5 lbs. (680 g) U.K. roasted barley (~550 °L)1.5 lbs. (680 g) U.K. chocolate malt (~440 °L)1
Winter’s Wheatwine
Digital and Plus Members OnlyWinter’s Wheatwine (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.102 FG = 1.018IBU = 51 SRM = 9 ABV = 11.4% Ingredients12 lbs. (5.4 kg) German wheat malt3.5 lbs. (1.6 kg) German Pilsner malt1 lb. (454 g) flaked wheat1 lb. (454 g) caramel wheat malt (~50 °L)0.5 lb. (227 g) honey malt2 lbs. (907 g) white sugar21 AAU
Winter’s Barleywine
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThis is kind of a hybrid English/American barleywine.
Playing With Extract: Sometimes simple can be better
Digital and Plus Members OnlyWhen an experienced homebrewer uses malt extracts, opportunities abound in terms of the beer’s potential. Denny and Drew have some tricks for those looking to save time on brew day.
Grape Ale: Pyment’s beery cousin
Digital and Plus Members OnlyWhile the combination of wine grapes and beer dates back millennia, up until the last decade or so the modern craft beer movement has largely overlooked it. Get the scoop on grape ales and how Italian brewers helped pioneer the style.