Writer: Christian Lavender
Pistachio Pale Ale
Digital and Plus Members OnlyWhat’s better than drinking beer and eating pistachios? Smashing them together (of course) and making citrusy pale ale using Palisade hops with a smoky pistachio kick.
Sunflower Seed Dark Hefeweizen
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThis recipe takes advantage of the head retention power of wheat to blend in some flavors of toasted sunflower seeds. Sunflower seeds are very oily, so toasting the seeds to get a large amount of the oils removed is essential.
Pecan Doppelbock
Digital and Plus Members OnlyI chose a doppelbock because of its rich, full-bodied, caramel malty flavor, blanketed light hop aroma with a light ruby-hazed color. This style with the pecan addition just screams Thanksgiving to me.
Smoked Pumpkin Seed Saison
Digital and Plus Members OnlyPumpkin spice ales and lagers are the most common styles of this gourd-like brew, but the saison style has some peppery spice undertones I thought might balance well.
Perfect pour
FREEA great glass of draft beer poured from a keg can seem tricky on the first few pours. You may pour a beer and get a glass full of foam, and other
Barrel-Aged Craft Beer Clone Homebrew Recipes
Digital and Plus Members Only“Curieux is a fairly simple recipe starting with our Tripel, which is then aged in bourbon barrels and blended with another batch of fresh Tripel. The vast majority of brewers here started out homebrewing so we all get excited anytime we get to do anything homebrew-related.” – Michael O’Connor, Allagash Brewing Company Allagash Brewing Company
Extract to Beer in 7 Days
FREEIf you’ve read any brewing books in the last century you know that the process of making beer always requires boiling of the wort. Boiling sterilizes the wort (kills off Lactobacillus and
Large-Scale Homebrew Systems
FREEBe sure to check out the comparison chart of all the models covered here at the bottom of this article. Homebrew systems have gone BIG. Large three- vessel brewing systems are simply
Under Pressure: Capturing CO2 During Fermentation
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThere are some who say that a beer whose entire fermenting and aging life is maintained at positive pressure — around 15 psi —tastes much better. Dr. Chris White of White Labs believes that not only pro brewers, but homebrewers can benefit from pressure during fermentation. “It is an especially nice practice for fermenting lagers because you can ferment at higher temps and still get
Build a Barrel Coolship Fermenter
Digital and Plus Members OnlyOpen 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 are usually shallow rectangular-shaped tanks with open tops. Originally, before plate heat exchangers were invented, the idea behind this design was mainly to pre-cool
Build a Randall-Style Hop Filter
Digital and Plus Members OnlyMost of the homebrewers I know that own kegerators rarely bottle their homebrew anymore. But some of the most hopped homebrews I’ve tasted lately seem to come in bottle form. As a kegerator homebrewer, I asked myself, “How can I make my draft homebrew hoppier?” I use kegs as my secondary and tertiary fermenting vessels
Choosing & Using Growlers
Digital and Plus Members OnlyWith the increasing amount of draft-only beers created by breweries and local brewpubs, growlers are becoming required gear for craft beer drinkers. For the homebrewer that faces the decision of whether to bottle or keg, a growler can make the choice to keg more desirable. Most homebrewers bottle their beer because it is easier to