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Tweet Blonde Ale is a light, slightly malty beer popularized by the American craft beer movement. This week we take a look at the history of Blonde ale, how to brew it at home and some recipes. History of Blonde Ales It is difficult to trace the precise origin of the term “Blonde Ale”, but [...]
Tweet This week we take a look a beer taps (faucets) and the key roll they play in a good keg system for your home brewed beer. Selecting the right faucet is a critical decision when designing a kegging system. You might want to refer to my earlier articles on kegging home brewed beer and [...]
Tweet Multi-step mashes used to be the standard for making beer, but increasingly home brewers and pro brewers have moved to brewing exclusively with a single step mash. The single step mash has many advantages including time, cost savings, simplicity and consistency. The Single Step Infusion Mash Most newcomers to all grain and partial mash [...]
Tweet A trend in modern brewing is the greater use of late steeped hop additions for many styles. These include steeped hop additions, whirlpool hops, use of a hop-back and even dry hopping. Surprisingly, most of these late additions are not done to increase bitterness, but instead to exploit hop oils which play a significant [...]
Great beer balances bitterness, color, flavor and body. As an all-grain brewer, you need understand how to control the body of your home brewed beer using mash temperature. By altering your mash schedule to match the style of beer you are brewing you can achieve precise control over the body of your beer…
Tweet A few years back I wrote an article on First Wort Hopping (FWH)- a technique I’ve used frequently over the years to brew great beer. While my support for the technique has not changed, my understanding of it has evolved a bit. What is First Wort Hops? First wort hopping (FWH) is a technique [...]
Tweet This week we take a look at ways to create more than one beer from a single batch of homebrew. Some time back, I wrote an article on parti-gyle brewing which can make two beers from a single mash. In this article we’re going to take it a step further by looking at ways [...]
Tweet SMASH is a relatively new approach to home brewing based on simplicity. Simplified home brewing has some significant rewards. It cuts to the heart of what a single malt and single hop tastes like, and also saves you time and money. The Cost of Complex Beer Most home brewers, myself included, when starting to [...]
Tweet Sour flavors are a common flaw in many home brewed beers. Outside of a handful of sour beer styles, most sour flavors are undesirable. This week’s article on sour beer is part of my ongoing series on off-flavors in beer including the previous articles on Diacetyl, DMS, and Esters, Phenolics and Tannins as well [...]
Tweet This week we explore the problem of phenolic (and tannin) flavors in beer. Phenolics are usually considered an off flavor, though in some beer styles they may be desirable at low levels. This week’s article is part of my ongoing series on off-flavors in beer including the previous articles on Diacetyl, DMS, and Esters [...]
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