Topic: Build It Yourself
Build a Fermentation Chamber
As homebrewers, we know that the steps in crafting a fine homebrew typically involve recipe formulation, gathering ingredients and at least several hours of brewing time to create the precious wort. Once
Bottle Filling Station
Take your bottling process to the next level
Motorize Your Grain Mill
Ready to motorize your grain mill? Learn how to convert a garage door opener to power your grain mill.
Build a Barrel Coolship Fermenter
Open fermentation can yield some amazing flavors, but requires the brewer to pay special attention to temperature, cleanliness, and fermenter shape. Some professional breweries cool their wort in vessels called coolships. Coolships
Brutus Ten Build
Brutus Ten is a 10-gallon (38-L), single-tier brewery situated on a stainless steel frame. The temperature of the hot liquor tank and mash tun are maintained automatically by two temperature controllers. If you know how to weld and have some basic electrical skills, you can build it yourself with these detailed plans.
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.
Build a Beer Flight Serving Tray
A variety of homebrewed beers on tap is a great way to impress your family and friends. But, when your guests have to drive home afterwards, they likely aren’t going to be
Build an Electric Brewing System
When I started thinking about a return to homebrewing, after a nearly-15-year hiatus, I started my research diligently to see what has changed since I got out of the hobby for a
Homebrew Hacks: Easy Projects
It is not just the quest for beer — or even the quest for really, really good beer — that has made the hobby of homebrewing so popular. It is also the
Build a Mixing Valve for Consistent Water Temperature
Every time I travel I try to visit the local breweries and, if I can, do a brewery tour of each of the establishments. After touring a few breweries I found that
Put Taps on your Truck
There’s nothing quite like pulling into your campsite and pouring a nice cold draft homebrew before you’ve even pitched your tent. It certainly helps foster domestic tranquility and makes you the envy
Build a Carboy Cleaner
I honestly can’t pinpoint exactly what got me started in homebrewing. I was looking for a new hobby and literally stumbled into it. I kid you not, before I brewed a batch,
