November 2022
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2022 Holiday Gift Guide
This 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…
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By The Pint: Enjoying traditional British ales for 50 years
A 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
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Don’t Forget Your Lines! How and why you should clean your draft lines
Most 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?
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Gordon Strong’s Grape Ale
This grape ale example is based on the version I made with Cervejaria 4 Árvores in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2018.
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Crystal Malts: Tips from the Pros
In 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.
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2022 Label Contest Winners
The winning homebrew labels from BYO’s 2022 Label Contest, which really show off the creativity of homebrewers from around the world.
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Bring on the Warmth
Get 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.
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Winter’s Imperial Stout
Imperial 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
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Winter’s Wheatwine
A big, high-gravity recipe to brew a classic wheatwine, but with a new school hop lineup.
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Winter’s Barleywine
This is kind of a hybrid English/American barleywine.
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Playing With Extract: Sometimes simple can be better
When 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.
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Grape Ale: Pyment’s beery cousin
While 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.
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Perfect Winter Pairings
When the weather gets cold homebrewers often turn to bigger beer styles that just so happen to pair perfectly with hearty meals ideal for the season. Explore techniques and examples of food pairings to serve with barleywine, wheatwine, and imperial stout this winter.
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Hop Creep
Large dry-hop additions that have become more prevalent over the past decade have caused surprises among commercial brewers and homebrewers alike. The phenomenon leading to a lower final gravity, increased ethanol, and increased carbonation is called hop creep and is due to diastase activity of hops. Learn more about hop creep and how to prepare for it.
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Lazy Day Blonde Ale
This is the lightest, and simplest, extract beer we’ve ever made. You can get in and out and have a tasty beer in no time flat. What kind of beer? The beer-flavored variety, naturally.
Mr. Wizard
A New Flavor In A Classic Beer
Thanks for the interesting question, Joe. I also enjoy all types of beer, so I went to the store and purchased a selection of beers in attempt to put a finger on
Mr. Wizard
At Home Solera System
Quick definition for our readers: The solera process is a type of fractional blending used to produce a diverse range of aged liquids including Sherry, vinegar, wine, whiskey, and beer. The term
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Fermenting Beer Under Pressure
Yes, using gravity to monitor fermentation status is the best method for use at home because observing bubble activity and kräusen appearance are simply not reliable indicators. I am a fan of
Mr. Wizard
Boiling Off the Alcohol In Beer
Wow! Talk about a blast from the past and a reminder of how brewing trends often slowly develop. The topic of no-alcohol and low-alcohol beers is certainly gaining traction in the world
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Fermentation Under Pressure, A Solera System, A New Flavor in a Classic Beer, and Cooking Beer
Fermenting beer under pressure using a spunding valve in a pressure-rated vessel is something many homebrewers have been experimenting with and Mr. Wizard has some pointers. Also, find out about a solera system, a new flavor in a classic beer, and removing alcohol through heat.
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Dovetail Brewery’s Vienna-Style Lager clone
One of the standouts in the core lineup from Dovetail Brewery is their Vienna-Style Lager. Dovetail employs a double decoction mash for it.
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Dovetail Brewery
Located within walking distance of Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois’ North Side, Dovetail Brewery has carved out a niche. Learn about its history and its coveted Vienna-Style Lager.
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Prepping For A Homebrew Competition
Get some pointers when the itch hits to start entering your homebrew in competitions, whether street-level, local, national, or international.
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Build a Randall-Style Hop Filter
When Dogfish Head created their Randall filter system for draft beers, it was to add a hop boost to a beer being poured. Build your own inline draft filter for hops and more.
