A big fear with extract brewers when switching to all-grain is that they are going to have to start all over again with recipes. Well fear no more, you can take your extract recipes and convert them over to all-grain recipes so you’ll never have to leave them behind. I personally only know two different […]
November 2, 2011
2cnd Essential Step Into All-Grain – All Grain Series
The next part of the all-grain series is a basic overview of some main terms that are used to describe aspects of all-grain brewing. While right now it may seem as you are looking at random puzzle pieces, trust me the picture will start to become more clear as we work through everything and get […]
November 1, 2011
1st Essential Step Into All-Grain – All Grain Series
If your thinking about diving into all-grain brewing and have been reading different articles online about how to do it, you have come across the last one that you will need to read. All-grain brewing is really not that hard, in fact it’s easy. To make the switch to all-grain brewing we’ll go through a comprehensive step […]
October 27, 2011
The Ultimate Dry Irish Stout In 4 Easy Steps
So it’s time to start looking at the next step for the Dry Irish Stout. I’ll put up pictures for it when I end up making it (this weekend hopefully) but I wanted to get the recipe out today so people can start working on it or at least have time to make some modifications if […]
October 27, 2011
The Reason Why You Should Use A Blow Off Tube
A lot of homebrewers look to get the edge on homebrewing with a few tricks that make life that much easier. One is a blow off tube if you are fermenting in a carboy. One thing I should state before I dive deep into the blow off tube is, it’s easier to get the tubing […]
October 26, 2011
Adding Grains To Your Beer Making It More Complex
When making a brew there are a couple things that you can do to make a beer a bit more complex. I recommend using specialty grains. When using specialty grains and extract you are pretty much making a tea by soaking grains in a pot of water. In order to use specialty grains in your beer you need to […]
October 20, 2011
Cold Weather And Slow Fermentation And How To Solve It
When the cold weather comes around we start to get the phone calls about how the fermentation is not starting or being sluggish at first. Well if it makes you feel any better, it’s usually not anything you did. Usually around this time of year it’s because of the weather and the cooler fermentation temperatures. In […]
October 19, 2011
How To Dry Hop
There’s a lot of ways to bring out a nice hop aroma in your beer. One of the best way’s to do so in my opinion is to dry hop your beer. So what is dry hoping? Simply dry hoping is adding hops in your beer unusually while it is in secondary fermentation. Some myths that I […]
October 18, 2011
13 Steps To Make Culturing Yeast Easy
One of the easiest ways to save money with homebrewing is culturing your own yeast. Before you have a knee jerk reaction thinking that it is hard or complicated just know people have doing this since there were pyramids if they can do it, you can too. One reason why you might want to culture your own yeast is if you […]
October 13, 2011
1 Trick That Saves Time With Bottling That You Need To Know
Everyone has a trick that they know or learned from some one that just saves you time and or makes life easier. They are the types of tricks that you can’t wait to show off when you have a friend in the room and the reaction is always the same, “wow that’s clever”. This trick […]
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