Brewing Techniques and Advic


Everything You Need to Know about Attenuation

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

Make Your Best English Porter

English Porter is one of the oldest continually-produced styles of beer in the world, dating in its current form back to at least the early 18th century. Here’s how to create this interesting (but never overpowering) drinking experience.

The Keys to Getting Great Results with Kettle Sours

Follow these tips and techniques to take your quick sour beers up a notch.

The Art of Tart: The Many Ways (Both Quick and Slow) to Make Sour Beer

Josh Weikert gets you started up the sour-beer mountain with a discussion of the basics of bugs, traditional and modern, and fast and slow ways of souring your beer, and how to bring your sours (stylistically) into the twenty-first century.

Teach Your Family to Brew over the Holidays

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

It’s Not (Just) the Heat; It’s the Humidity

With an electric brewing system, it’s not just a matter of figuring out how to heat water and boil the wort; ventilation is every bit as important. Here are some things you should consider as you design your dream system.

The Best Way to Use Whirlpool Hops in Homebrew

To preserve the volatile oils in hops, you need to steep hops at a temperature below boiling. That’s where whirlpool hops additions come into play.

Ditching the Plastic Buckets for Ss Brewtech

Interested in upgrading your fermentation system? One of our editors took the Ss Brewtech Chronical Fermenter, the FTSs Temp Control for Chronical, and the Brew Bucket, and shared her experience.

Make Your Best Altbier

In Josh Weikert’s mind, altbier is the perfect beer. Not “the best beer you’ll ever have” kind of perfect, but the “lets you taste and enjoy every aspect of what beer is” kind of perfect.

High Volume Brewing

You can brew 15 gallons (57 l) with a 10-gallon (38 l) brew system by taking a few different approaches. Longtime homebrewer Jester Goldman walks you through some ideas and weighs pros and cons.