Making Beer


Grain to Glass in 10 Days

Need beer in a hurry? No need to worry, you can turn out a great brew in ten days or fewer if you follow a few basic principles.

Hot-Rod Your Beer-Making Kit!

With quality ingredients, these kits can turn out excellent beer with just a few minutes more of your time.

Facing (Beer) Judgment

Homebrew competitions offer the chance to get honest unbiased feedback on your beer. Here are 3 things to remember when you consider entering your beer in a competition.

Dry Hops Dilemmas

We asked Adam Glaser, head brewer at Jagged Mountain Craft Brewery in Denver, Colorado, to help demystify fermentation progress and dry hops.

Have Faith in Your Beer

“Don’t sweat the small stuff when you’re brewing,” says Michael Copado. History assures us that most homebrew mistakes are “small stuff.”

Take Control of Your Fermentation

A chest freezer and a dual-stage controller can give homebrewers the environmental control needed to brew lagers in August and saisons in February.

The Great Kegs versus Bottles Showdown

Here is a completely subjective list of considerations when you’re trying to decide whether to keg or bottle.

Homebrewing a Kölsch

Kölsch is the ideal style to reach for when you need to recharge your taste buds with a lighter, refreshing beer.

Nitraux: Pour Nitro-style on the Cheap

Who can argue with the aesthetic pleasure of watching a well-executed nitro pour? What if you could achieve the same results without nitrogen?

Lautering and Sparging

Here’s the lowdown on lautering and the skinny on sparging.