So you’ve bought yourself a keg system. You can carbonate your beer in almost no time at all and you are proudly serving your winning beers from your own bar taps. Great stuff! But…now you’ve realized that you can no longer take over a couple of bottles of your home brew to a barbecue…you can’t […]
Bottling beer is one of the most tedious and labor-intensive aspects of brewing, both for home brewers and professional bottling lines. In the case of home brew, bottle conditioning is the most common method of carbonating beer. For those who may not know, bottle conditioning homebrew is the process of adding sugar to a bottle […]
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 Porter is a rich malty beer, originally made from brown malts and favored by the London river dock workers in the 1800s – hence the name ‘Porter’.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 […]
BeerSmith Software is a very widely used tool for both home brewers and professionals. While reading through various homebrewing software reviews, BeerSmith is consistently highly rated, with very little criticism. Now that BeerSmith software is finally available for Mac, I’m able to download it for myself! Click here to get BeerSmith. BeerSmith is more than […]
A Brief Study and an Ancient Beer Recipe: When was beer invented? Where was beer invented? I was re-reading one of my favourite books (Radical Brewing by Randy Mosher) and enjoying an introductory “embellished history of beer”. Mosher writes a few notes on the history of beer and presents a comical reenactment of an ancient Sumerian motorcycle […]
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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 […]