Soft Pretzels: A Recipe for Bavarian Pretzels
Enjoy soft pretzels at home with your homebrewed beer! Today we present a recipe for making large soft German beer pretzels from the comfort of your kitchen.
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Beer Color: Understanding SRM, Lovibond and EBC
Beer spans an endless array of colors. The deep black color and white foam of an Irish Stout, deep copper of a Pale Ale and cloudy light color of a Bavarian Wheat are all within the rainbow we call beer. Today we’ll look at beer color, SRM, EBC, Lovibond, how its measured, color limitations, and how to estimate the color of a beer recipe.
Brewing Hops Storage: Preserving Precious Hops
Today we’re going to look at the best way to store and preserve your beer brewing hops and also some of the effects of hop aging. With hop prices pushing $5 US per ounce and the hops crisis likely to get worse before it gets better, caring for your precious hops supply is more important than ever…
6 Tips for Crystal Clear Home Brewed Beer
This week we give you six tips to improve the clarity of your home brewed beer. A bright, sparkling clear beer is highly prized by most consumers, yet clear beer can be elusive for the average home brewer. Commercial brewers use fining agents, filtering, and pasteurization techniques to keep their beer crystal clear…
New BrewPoll Home Brewing and Craft Beer News Site
We’re pleased to announce the launch of the BrewPoll Home Brewing and Craft Beer News Site. After launching into the Web 2.0 with BrewWiki a few years ago and this blog the last few months, I’ve been fascinated with the way that many new social sites are able to find and promote the “best of the web”…
Sam Adams offers 20,000 lbs of Hops to Microbrewers
Tweet Given the hop shortage of 2008 we featured in an earlier article, it was great to hear that Samuel
Beer Styles: Making a Porter Recipe
Tweet Porter is a English beer style that has become very popular in the United States. This week we will
