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What’s the Difference? The traditional, flat-bottomed fermenters used by home brewers are rarely temperature-controlled, and many home brewers will skip the secondary fermentation. However, using plastic conical fermentation tanks allows home brewers all of the advantages, accuracy and precision of a commercial brewery with far greater ease. While the basic principles of fermentation are the […]
We Were Serving Warm Glasses of Foam Several of my friends and I are known for throwing big home brew parties that last several days. We all provide as much home brew as we can for our guests, a combined effort that usually comes to around 1,000 liters over a weekend. IIt’s not uncommon for […]
Upping Your Game If you’ve been brewing with kit beers or extracts, or even all grain mashing using a Brew In A Bag system, you will soon be thinking about taking the step up to making your own all-grain brew house. While you can go for a large, multi-vessel brew house, a simple cooler can […]
How-To Guide and Galaxy Pale Ale Recipe Home brew kit beer doesn’t have to be looked down upon by experienced brewers and beer drinkers. In fact, many of the kit beers available are carefully developed recipes, produced by experienced breweries and condensed into cans for you to use with ease. Unfortunately, often times they are […]
Ise Kadoya A Japanese craft brewery from Ise presents the Grassy India Pale Ale. The short brown bottle and high-gloss (and shiny!) label are instantly eye catching. The name is immediately evocative of European noble hops added late in the process. Beer Specs Alcohol Content: 6% ABV IBU: Not Given Style: India Pale Ale Presentation […]
Brewdog PUNK IPA in a Can The classic in-your-face blue Punk IPA label now surrounds an entire can in a very appealing visual effect. At first glance, the canned version appears to be a ‘straight to export’ product, with Japanese and several European languages directly on the can itself. But is it the same winning […]
I have been asked by several people with or without a wheat allergy about gluten free beer brewing, of which I have some commercial experience, so I would like to share the lowdown on brewing with sorghum malt. Review: Briess White Sorghum Malt Briess have been producing some excellent liquid malt extracts, but can they […]
The Basic Categories: Malt is extracted into two forms, dry malt extract (DME) and liquid malt extract (LME). These two categories are then divided into many types, each with different colors and flavors. You may find recipes that call for only LME, only DME, or for both types of malt extract. The ‘kit beers’ that […]
If you don’t already have your fermentation kit, please check out this page. The Super-Minimal BIAB Setup It is essentially a bag in a pot. This is the most labor-intensive of the all grain brewing setup options, but also the cheapest. Pros: Cons: I used this system in Japan recently (check out the post here) […]