Videos
Making Hard Seltzers at Home
Hard seltzers are everywhere and you can also make your own hard seltzers at home flavored just the way you want. But making it is a bit different from brewing beer since
Making Kettle Sours at Home
Kettle souring has grown in popularity recently because it speeds up the timeline for making sour beers. But there are several different ways to kettle sour with different sour cultures and even
Carbonating a Corny Homebrew Keg
There is something special when you can enjoy your homebrew served from a keg. But how do you properly dial in the keg carbonation levels and what are your carbonating options when
Using a Water Bath for Temperature Control
Controlling temperature is a key part of producing better beer. Whether it is keeping your fermenting beer in the proper temperature range for the yeast strain you’ve chosen or for extended lagering
Making a Yeast Starter from Plates or Slants
Learn how to start with a single colony of yeast stored on a plate or slant and build it up to a pitchable quality to add to your wort for your beer
Beer Foam Building Tips
Brew Your Own’s Technical Editor and Mr. Wizard Columnist Ashton Lewis really, really loves beer foam. In fact he wrote his Master’s thesis while at UC-Davis’ brewing program all about beer foam.
Streaking Yeast on a Plate
Yeast is everywhere, on plants, on fruit, in the air…and in beer. Streaking an agar plate is a quick and easy way to isolate yeast, to check for purity, and to re-culture
Making Your Own Agar Plates at Home
Agar Plates can be used to streak and isolate yeast strains for your brewing. Instead of buying these agar plates, Brew Your Own Magazine’s Technical Editor Ashton Lewis shows you how to
Better Hydrometer Readings on Carbonated Beer
Getting accurate hydrometer readings is critically important to brewing better beer. However sometimes it’s really tough to get the best reading you can – especially after your beer has some carbonation built
Beer Yeast Cell Counts with Microscope and Hemocytometer
If you know the viability of the yeast you are pitching into your wort you can be more confident your fermentation will go as expected. One of the most popular ways brewers
Using Packed Cell Volume for Yeast Counting
Knowing the viability of your yeast is key to running strong beer fermentations especially when you are reusing yeast from a prior batch. The traditional way to count yeast cells requires a
Mastering Milling
Learn how to dial in your grain mill to produce the right kind of grist for your needs and your brewing system. You’ll see the difference between coarse and fine and what
