Topic: Ingredients
Fruit Brewing Techniques
How to make a berry good beer.
Brewing with Honey
Honey is a versatile, highly fermentable ingredient that can add a bit of buzz to almost any beer style, from pale pilsners and light lagers to porters, stouts and spiced beers. Tips, techniques and three “sweet” recipes.
Brewing with Fruit
How to pick the right fruit for your summer brew.
Shelf Life: Storing Your Ingredients
To make great beer, you need fresh ingredients. Here’s how to store and preserve your hops, yeast, grains, malt extract and other brewing materials.
Adjuncts Explained
Corn and rice, oats and rye, brown sugar and more: Homebrewers can use adjuncts to add different flavors to beer and improve mouthfeel, head retention and clarity. A guide to adjuncts, plus recipes to help you understand these often-overlooked fermentables.
Brewing with Pumpkin: Tips from the Pros
Expert advice on how to brew with the great pumpkin.
Substituting honey for sugar
Cane sugar is well known to give beer a cidery or winey flavor. If you want to get rid of this flavor, using honey in place of sugar is one of several
Wild, Wild Rice!
Make some truly unique homebrew with this indigenous Northwoods grain. With recipes for all-grain, partial mash and extract versions.
Hot! Hot! Hot! Brewing with Chili Peppers
From jalapeno to habanero, how to make scorching chili beer at home.
Brewing Hempen Ale
The brewer who developed Hempen Ale and Hempen Gold tells us how he created the popular and controversial beers.
Brewing with Coffee: Tips from the Pros
Finding balance with coffee beer
The Growth of Wood
Using wood in brewing is a long-standing practice, and many craft brewers are experimenting with oak aging today. You can use wood in your brew, too.
