Articles
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Step Mashing Q+A with Dave Miller
Question: I am confused. I am a beginning all-grain home brewer and have learned a lot from friends at a local homebrew shop. One thing...
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Mashing With a Protein Rest
Question: I have two questions for which I can’t get good answers from local homebrew supply stores. I am a new full-mash brewer. I have...
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Modifying Sanke Kegs For Use as Brewing Kettles
by Martin P. Manning (Brewing Techniques) Modifying Half-Barrel Kegs for Use as Brewing Vessels A well-modified half-barrel keg should be easy to make, easy to...
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Water Treatment
By Karl Kin (Brewing Techniques) Water Treatment: Philosophy, Approach, and Calculations The chemical calculations for water treatment can be intimidating to those who are not...
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Brewing With Rye
By Rosannah Hayden An ancient grain is making a new name for itself in the small-scale brewing scene. Necessity is not always the mother of...
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Methods of Sanitization and Sterilization
By Maribeth Raines (Brewing Techniques) Boiling in water and soaking in chlorine bleach may be insufficient safeguards against infectious bacteria and fungi. Some simple laboratory...
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The Life of a Yeast Cell
By Dan Put (Brewing Techniques) The Secret Reproductive Life of Yeast To better understand the importance of wort aeration, let’s look at what happens to...
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Lambic: Belgium's Unique Treasure
by Martin Lodahl (Brewing Techniques) Lambic: Belgium’s Unique Treasure But is it really beer?” The first taste of a lambic is almost always a surprise...
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Dextrin Malt - Carapils and Maltodextrin
By Dave Miller (Brewing Techniques) Dextrin Malt Q: Is it correct to assume that all extract from dextrin malt is in the form of dextrins...
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Water Hardness
by Dave Miller (Brewing Techniques) Question: After seeing references in various beer publications and books on water analysis, I decided to contact my local officials...
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Advanced Mashing Techniques
By Jim Busch (Brewing Techniques) Mashing 102 — Advanced Material In a way, mashing is the natural progression of malting. Both act to take a...
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One Beer, Two Batches!
High-Gravity Brewing Q: Is it advisable to brew a strong 5-gallon wort, divide it into two batches and add an equal amount of water to...
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Why not dry hop at pitching time?
Three reasons. First, if you use the blowoff method, either the hops will clog the blowoff tube or the kraeusen will pump hops out of...
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A Survey of Brewing Software
Updated 06/10/21 The article below originally appeared in Brewing Techniques Magazine, so some of the information may be outdated. Our current favorite brewing software to...
