When you join a brew club, you can immediately reap the rewards of education, connections, and, of course, beer. There are also a few side benefits to sweeten the deal.
Three metrics will help you develop familiarity with your equipment and brewing process so you won’t just make great beer, but you’ll make the great beer you planned, right from the start.
In four steps, you can adjust your beer recipe and process to transform a decent beer in your arsenal into a solid 10.
Splitting the brew day with a friend—the cost, the labor, and the beer—can be a win-win situation. Aside from sharing the load, you can get a creative boost from the joint effort.
Even if we pay lip service to the ideal of the Reinheitsgebot, we often overlook it every time we bottle: priming with corn sugar is a clear violation. Take an example from German brewers and keep it legal with a technique called kräusening.
With a little ingenuity, we can make our homebrewing more accessible to those with physical limitations.
Performing a starch test with iodine can help you know when your grain is ready to mash out and sparge.
Want to try your hand at a beer spiced with something other than cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, and ginger? Here’s how to experiment before you brew a whole batch.
When you enter a homebrew competition, your entry receives valuable feedback that can have a major impact on the quality of your future batches. Here’s are some tips to understanding that feedback.