Many different ingredients can be used in the brewing of beer. Some of these ingredients are common knowledge, such as malt and hops. However, several other ingredients can be used to create unique and delicious beers. In this blog post, we will discuss 11 surprising brewing beer ingredients! RELATED: The Best Foods To Pair With […]
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Beer Brewing Calculator Review: Brewer’s Friend
Brewer’s Friend is a website that features a wide range of beer brewing tools and calculators for a wide range of purposes, most of which are completely free. The range of resources is fairly decent, with charts, brew sheets, guides, infographics, and various calculators for all levels of the brewing process. While these individual features […]
Beer Yeast Starter Recipe for Homebrewers
A good fermentation plays a major part in the quality of your finished product, and a healthy, active yeast is key to a good fermentation. You want as little lag-time as possible between adding (‘pitching’) the yeast and the yeast becoming active. Using the right beer yeast starter recipe gets your yeast active and hungry, […]
Chocolate Porter Beer Recipe: 4 Brewing Methods
Porter One of my all-time favorite beer styles. Porter is a rich malty beer, originally made from brown malts and favored by the London river dock workers in the 1800s – hence the name ‘Porter’. As darker malts became used, porter tended towards a heavier, darker beer, eventually diverging into ‘stout’. Below is my favorite […]
How to Improve Kit Beer
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 […]
Gluten Free Beer Brewing – Sorghum Malt Review
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 […]
Quick Guide on How to Keep Hops Fresh
Is It Really Important To Keep Hops Fresh? Absolutely. Have you ever wondered why your beer didn’t have the same great aroma as last time you made it? Maybe you have noticed a ‘cheesy’ odor to your latest batch? There is a strong chance that you need to consider how to store hops more carefully. […]
How to Make Your Own Beer Kit
Why Make Your Own Beer Kit? Whatever your reason, at some point you may decide you need to make your own beer kit. This article is based on the minimum amount of gear that you will need to get started. If you have decided to make your own beer kit, you then need to decide […]