Topic: Ingredients
Thiol Boosting with Grape Skins
Released a couple of years ago, Phantasm powder is a revolutionary product made from thiol-rich Sauvignon Blanc grape skins. Learn how to get the most from Phantasm in your next brew.
SMaSH Brewing: Tips from the Pros
While SMaSH (Single Malt and Single Hop) beers are relatively simple by nature, that doesn’t mean they can’t taste great. Two brewers with SMaSH beers in their regular rotation share pointers for crafting a great SMaSH brew and the benefits of doing so.
Evaluating Brewing Ingredients
A brewer must understand the impact each ingredient will have on the final beer in order to master recipe development. Get tips on how to properly evaluate each ingredient. With practice, everyone can master these skills and start brewing better beers.
The Many Forms of Hops
The world of hopping beers has been revolutionized in recent years. Make sure you are informed on the latest and greatest ways to get the most from the various hop products that are available in the marketplace these days.
Brewing Wheat Beers: Tips from the Pros
Two pros with gold medals to their names for wheat beers share advice on how to get the most from wheat and avoid the common pitfalls associated with the huskless grain.
Brewing with Wheat
Wheat has long been used by brewers across the world to contribute unique flavors compared to barley, as well as adding a softness and to improve head formation and retention. Learn more about how to use this sometimes-tricky ingredient and the styles that rely heavily on it.
SMaSH Brewing
SMaSH stands for Single Malt and Single Hop recipe design. SMaSH takes the idea of simplicity in brewing to its logical extreme — by limiting the brewer to one malt, one hop
Oak Alternatives
Aging your homebrew in an oak barrel can add more dimensions to your beer by imparting complex wood characteristics such as vanilla, cloves, coconut, or caramel, but barrels are not ideal for
Crafting Flavorful Hard Seltzers
Thanks for the fun question, Skip! Now that seltzers have been around for a couple of years, brewers have figured out that the best way to make clean bases is to pitch
Using Hop Extracts
Hops contain hundreds of components including alpha and beta acids, hydrocarbons, thiols, tannins, enzymes, terpenes, and glycosides. The exact compounds and amounts differ depending on variety and growing conditions. Even with ideal
Sugar Syrups
While they can be time consuming, making them isn’t hard. Get the scoop on using and making your own sugar syrups for your brews.
Brewing with Lactose: Tips from the Pros
Milk stout isn’t the only style brewed with lactose these days. Get tips on how, and why, you may use it in other styles.
