Making Beer


5 Items You Didn’t Know You Needed

Here is a completely subjective list of five specialty items for your home brewery.

Where To Take your Beer’s Temperature

Here are the two of the most common ways to measure temperature without voiding your controller’s warranty.

5 Indispensable Tools for Your Dispensing System

Here are the essential tools to help you keep the beer flowing in your home draft system.

Doppelbock: It’s Time

If you want to have a keg of extra-strength bock ready to go come the spring thaw, now is the time to plan your Doppelbock.

How Efficient is Your Beer?

One parameter that’s different for every brewer is efficiency, which quantifies how much sugar you get out of your grain, relative to how much is actually there for the taking.

7 Steps to Growing Your Own Hops

Interested in growing your own hops? Start planning now, and then follow these seven simple steps.

Labeling Your Homebrew

Here’s how to get your label creations onto bottles.

Taste the Freshness

Stan Hieronymus shares the three keys to brewing successfully with wet hops and the four “rules of hops” that you should understand.

You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby

Dry yeast has come a long, long way in the past decade, and there are now good dry yeast choices for most broad classes of beer.

The Virtues of Being Late

Late extract addition is a tool to help you improve the quality and appearance of your homemade beer.