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Sour beer is rising in popularity, but not everyone has the patience or confidence to allow wild airborne yeasts and bugs do the job changing your clean wort to a sour beer. In the last decade several brewing techniques as well as products have allowed brewers to speed up the process while also achieving reliable and repeatable end results with their sour beers. Brew Your Own Magazine’s Technical Editor and Mr. Wizard Columnist Ashton Lewis walks you through the faster ways to get your own homemade sour beer in your glass.
Oxidation makes beer taste stale or old. It has been the focus of brewery research for decades and is a very well-understood topic. Minimizing exposure to air is key when kegging your beer.
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