Dave Carpenter

Conduct a dry-matter test to determine when your homegrown hops are ready to harvest.

Oxygen has a way of destroying the things we love, including beer.

If your beer tastes of plastic, smoke, Chloraseptic, or Band-Aids, then look to these 5 potential sources.

Solvent character is almost always the result of fermenting too hot.

If you brew your beer at high elevation, here are 4 main points to keep in mind.

The International Bittering Units tell you something about a beer, but they don’t tell you everything.

Take you old growlers and have some fun with your beer.

So you want to perform a cereal mash? Good for you! The cereal mash is your key to unlocking starches in raw and unmalted grains and making them available for conversion by mash enzymes.

Brewers have a number of excellent oats options from which to choose, but each option has different mash requirements.

It’s often said that brewers make wort, and yeast makes beer: if you want a healthy fermentation, you’ve got to have healthy yeast.