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: 10 Tips for Surviving the Hops Shortage
Ten hop-saving tips for surviving the ongoing hop crisis. With brewing hops in short supply, everyone is looking for ways to use less hops. This week’s article includes a collection of home brewing tips to conserve and preserve your precious hops supply and save you money in the process.
Calculating Hop Bitterness: How much Hops to Use?
A look at beer bitterness for home brewers, estimating International Bitterness Units (IBUs) and balancing your beer recipe. How much beer hops is enough? With the hop crisis in full swing, it is important to understand the quantity of hops you need to properly balance your home brewed beer…
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…
Growing Hops in the Garden: How to Grow Beer Hops
With the ongoing hop crisis, brewers are turning to growing hops for beer in the garden. Learn how to grow your own hops at home from rhizomes to create your own perennial hop supply. Part 1 of our 5 part series on the hop crisis.
Brewing a Kolsch Beer Recipe: Beer Styles
Design and brew a Kolsch beer recipe at home. Guest blogger DJ provides you with the history of Kolsch, how to design a Kolsch beer, and his personal recipe for brewing Kolsch. Kolsch is an exremely light ale with a lager-like character…
Making a Yeast Starter for your Home Brew Beer
Making a yeast starter for your homebrew beer will improve the quality and reduce the chance of infection. This week we cover how much yeast to use and how to create a yeast starter…
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”…
The First Wort Hop: Beer Brewing Techniques
Brewing beer with first wort hops (FWH) is a method I have used extensively for beer brewing over the last few years to improve the character of many recipes. First wort hopping produces complex bitterness and aroma that is both smooth and pleasing to the pallet…
Brewing an Irish Stout Beer Recipe
With St Patrick’s day upon us, it seemed appropriate to discuss the beer that Ireland is most famous for: Irish Stout. We’ll review the history of Irish Stout, the design of Irish Stout recipes and finish with a selection of great Irish Stout recipes for home brewing…
“Designing Great Beers” by Ray Daniels – A Book Review
I recently revisited Ray Daniels’ classic work “Designing Great Beers”, a book written in 1996 and published by the Brewers Association. Though I originally read this book several years ago, I enjoyed it even more the second time. For those of you who don’t know the book, it is advertised as “The Ultimate Guide to Brewing Classic Beer Styles”…
How to Batch Sparge: A Guide for Batch Sparging and No Sparge
Today we look at traditional fly sparging, batch sparging and no-sparge brewing techniques. Batch sparge techniques have become very popular with homebrewers because batch sparging requires less time and less equipment than traditional techniques at minimal added cost…
New BJCP 2008 Style Guide and BeerSmith Batch Sparging Release
The Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) recently released an updated beer style guide for 2008. The latest version of BeerSmith was just released and incorporates the new BJCP style guide as well as new equal running batch sparge options for batch sparge brewers…
All Grain Beer Brewing With An Infusion Mash Setup
This week we take a look at instructions for all grain beer brewing using a single step infusion mash setup. This is a great introduction for extract brewers looking to make the switch to all-grain using a Gott style water cooler.
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
Making Full Bodied Beer at Home
Tweet For many beer styles such as traditional ales, browns, porters and stouts, a full body beer style is very
