Homebrew tutorials from extract basics to all-grain deep dives. Whether you’re on batch one or batch fifty, there’s something here.
The American Pale Ale is the perfect homebrew. It’s not too complicated, it finishes in a reasonable timeframe, it’s immediately crowd-pleasing, and it gives you…
Water is 90-something percent of your beer. It’s also the ingredient most homebrewers completely ignore until they’ve been at it for a couple of years…
Here’s something most beer drinkers don’t fully appreciate: you don’t make beer. Yeast makes beer. You make sugar water and keep it warm. The yeast…
Hops are the rock stars of craft beer. And like most rock stars, they’re a little complicated — but once you understand what they actually…
Hops get all the glory. Walk into any craft beer conversation and someone’s raving about Citra or Mosaic. But malt is the soul of the…
Walk into a homebrew shop and you’ll find approximately ten thousand products, all of which someone on a forum will tell you are absolutely essential.…
Every great homebrewer started in the same place: staring at a kit on the kitchen counter, equal parts excited and terrified. The good news? It’s…
I enjoy a lot of the sours I’ve had–one of my go-to hot weather beers is Westbrook Gose, even. But I still don’t know terribly…
Hot Rum Cow has a good write-up on why you shouldn’t dismiss lagers as pale, flavorless abominations. Simply put, you’re probably just not drinking the…
I’m somebody that has always felt a bit overwhelmed by the prospect of homebrewing. I’ve never taken the plunge, but it always seemed like an…
