Writer: Michael Dawson
The Forced Ferment Test
Digital and Plus Members OnlyA forced ferment is a test used by many professional brewers and brewery labs to determine the minimum final gravity possible from a freshly-made batch of wort. By diverting a sample of wort from the main batch and causing it to undergo a rapid fermentation — through some combination of overpitching, elevated temperature, and/or agitation or
Using Yeast Nutrients
Digital and Plus Members OnlyPhoto by Kevin Margulieux When I was a kid, my grandma would buy sampler packs of single-serving boxes of Kellogg’s cereal for my brothers and me. Remember those? Invariably, the last one to get eaten was always Product 19 — the one with all the essential vitamins and minerals. Those nutrient-rich but sugar- and cartoon
Homebrew Yeast Pitching Rates
FREE“Brewers make wort, yeast make beer.” It’s a saying I’ve cited so many times over the years, I’d have stopped repeating it long ago if I didn’t like the sound of my