Dave Carpenter

A guide to lager styles

If you keg your beer and need to fill a growler, here are some tips to avoid growler grief.

A Pale-Ale Style Guide

When it comes to craft ales and lagers, there really is no good one-size-fits-all temperature. And even if there were, it probably wouldn’t be ice cold.

Six-row barley may suffer from a bit of an image problem, but homebrewers and commercial craft brewers alike are beginning to discover that a little six-row isn’t all that bad.

First wort hops are added to the kettle during runoff and can lend complexity to the finished beer’s flavor and aroma.

. . . you can learn in a trip to your favorite restaurant.

Here are 5 great reasons to teach your family how to homebrew this holiday season.

Lautering is the process of separating sweet wort from mashed grain.

Seriously consider brewing an IPA for one of your first batches of homebrew.