Kettle Sour: Brewing Your First Kettle Soured Beer
You can love it. You can hate it. But there’s no denying the fact that sour beer is an integral part of the vast and intriguing world of beer. Sour beers have enjoyed an immense rise in popularity lately and in particular, kettle soured…
Adding Fruit To Your Home Brew Beer
Adding fruit to a beer is a great way to add another dimension that just isn’t possible with malt, hops and yeast. It can lead to all sorts of questions though.
Will it contaminate the beer? How much do you need to add? What point in the…
What I Learned As A Professional Brewer
I am sure almost every home brewer has had the thought of what it would be like to turn a home brewing hobby into a career. To earn money from doing something you love I’m sure is high on everyone's list of a fulfilling job.
I have actually…
Campden Tablets: What Are They, Uses & How They Work
Campden tablets have multiple uses in homebrewing and are a versatile tool in both winemaking and beer making. Campden tablets are one of 2 chemicals, either sodium or potassium metabisulfite which have unique attributes useful to the brewer.
Firstly…
Methods Of Wort Aeration & Oxygenation
Wort aeration is one of the parts of the brewing process that you don’t really think about after brewing a few batches, you just seem to do it instinctively every time you brew. It is an important part of the brewday that is so easy to do…
Cold Crashing Your Home Brew
There are always ways to refine your brewing process, clarity is one of those things that isn’t always really necessary but it would be nice to achieve the pin-sharp clarity of commercial beers. Cold crashing beer is a technique that more…
What Is Yeast Nutrient? And How To Use It
If you have been brewing for any length of time you may have heard of yeast nutrient. It is a very common additive for plenty of wine recipes but is not often listed in many beer recipes.
Several yeast companies produce their own brand of…
Tips for Buying Home Brew Supplies
When it comes to buying home brewing supplies, there are a few things you need to think about. Things like ingredients you need to think about quality, cost and freshness. Equipment purchases mean thinking about how useful is it, practicality…
Open Fermentation Without the Contamination
I’ve read a lot of people making a big deal about open fermentation, especially home brewers thinking anything other than a carboy fitted with a bung and an airlock will lead to infected beer and spoiled brews. Open fermentation makes many…
Clone Beer Recipes – Recreate Your Favourite Commercial Beers
When I started brewing my first few beers were commercial beers I’d tried to recreate. In essence, they were a clone beer. I would say that was somewhat of my motivation to start brewing in the first place, I wanted to recreate some of my…