Writer: Jon Stika
Using Yeast Nutrients
Yeast do not live by maltose alone. Find out what nutrients they need and how to ensure you have the proper amount in your wort.
Aerating Wort Techniques
Your chilled wort needs oxygen to keep the yeast healthy — here’s how to deliver it.
Fermenting High Gravity Beers
Bigger may or may not be better, but it’s a fact that high gravity beers don’t follow all the fermentation rules. Find out how to handle the big numbers.
Controlling Fermentation Temperature
Controlling the temperature of your fermentations is one of the best ways to improve the quality of your beers; we’ll show you how — from low-tech tricks to high-tech equipment.
Choosing Hop Varieties
There are many ingredients that brewers use to flavor and season their beer, from orange peel and coriander to black pepper and grains of paradise. But the gold standard remains the humble hop. Hops have long served many purposes in beer. They provide bitterness to balance the sweetness of malt, and add myriad flavors and aromas. When choosing which hop or combination of hops to include in a particular beer there are several questions that come to mind. What type and degree of bitterness, flavor and aroma is desired in the beer to be brewed? How are the bitterness, flavor and aroma derived from hops? What style of beer is being brewed, or am I leaving style guidelines behind to create something of my own?
Priming Techniques
When your homebrew seems more flat than fizzy, perhaps you need to take a look at your priming method.
Processing Homegrown Hops
There’s more to growing your own hops than picking the cones from the bines. Get some advice for harvesting, drying and storing your homegrown harvest.
Wort Chilling Techniques
Frightened of long cooling times or DMS-laden brews? Unearth the techniques and equipment that will make your wort run cold.
Cereal Mashing
How to utilize starchy adjuncts with a cereal mash – and the alternate forms of these adjuncts that can be single infusion mashed.
Harvesting Yeast
How to harvest healthy yeast from one fermentation and use it for your next – all the materials and methods necessary to repitch from batch to batch.
Using Specialty Malts
Ever wonder what’s so special about specialty malts? Find out how they’re made and how to get the most out of this key family of ingredients.
Brewing With Coffee
Coffee in the morning and beer at night? What about both at the same time? How to blend two of the most popular beverages in the world into a heady brew.
