Brewing Techniques and Advice


How to Host a (Relatively) Stress-free Homebrew Competition

Here is a survival guide for the hosts and hostesses of homebrew parties.

Exchange Rates VI: An Example

It’s time to put these ideas to work with a complete example.

Make Your Best Kölsch

With summer just around the corner, here is a guide to brewing your best-ever lawnmower beer.

Keep it Clean: A Simple Sanitation Guide

Knowing how to clean and sanitize your brew equipment will help avoid contaminating your batches.

Exchange Rates V: Hops Utilization

Hops adjustments are the final piece of the puzzle in converting all-grain recipes to extract versions.

Make Your Best Bitter

Here are guidelines for brewing the best English pale ale ever.

Fermentation Resurrection: Reusing Yeast

Here are two methods for collecting yeast to reuse in future batches.

What’s Your Condition?

A quick and easy guide to picking the right priming sugar for your batch.

Exchange Rates IV: Dealing with Adjuncts

In this fourth article in our Exchange Rates series, we’ll tackle the sticky subject of adjuncts.

If at First You Don’t Succeed

It’s pretty much inevitable that something will eventually go wrong on brew day. When it does, pour yourself a beer and conduct a post-mortem to find the root cause and possible remedies.