Dave Carpenter

Dave Carpenter


Get SMaSHed

Brew a “Single Malt and Single Hops” beer and get to know your ingredients.

Benefits of the Boil

The boil is an essential life stage through which every beer must pass on its way from grain to glass. Here’s why it deserves your attention.

The Heat Is On

We’ve all heard manufacturers of stoves, furnaces, and air conditioners talk about BTUs, but what exactly does that mean? And what on earth does it have to do with beer? I’m glad you asked.

Clear Beer, Part 3

In this the final part of the series, we discuss a couple of additional ways to clarify your homebrew: cold crashing and fermentation enzymes.

4 Tips for Spine-Friendly Brewing

Use these tips when moving your wort or beer from Point A to Point B to ensure that Point B isn’t the emergency room.

Brewing with Sugar

Sugar has a time and place in brewing to get you where you want to go.

Clear Beer, Part 2

What about the suspended yeast cells that remain in your beer after fermentation? That’s where post-fermentation finings, or cask finings, enter the picture.

Population Density: A Yeast Wrangling Update

Dave Carpenter provides an update on his spontaneous fermentation experiment.

Clear Beer, Part 1

Use kettle finings to pull proteins from your wort and help produce clearer beer.

4 Reasons to Brew in Small Batches

Small-batch brewing offers some distinct advantages over full-scale brewing.