Homebrew tutorials from extract basics to all-grain deep dives. Whether you’re on batch one or batch fifty, there’s something here.
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…
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…
At some point, every extract brewer asks the same question: should I go all-grain? The answer, for most people who’ve brewed six or more extract…
One of the most important ingredients in a well crafted beer, one that beer drinkers often forget about, is the water. Most people think that…
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…
Homebrewers avoid lagers. The reputation — cold fermentation, months of lagering, precise temperature control — makes them sound like a project requiring dedicated equipment and…
Bottling is fine. Bottling works. Bottling is also 45 minutes of sanitizing, filling, capping, and hoping you got the priming sugar math right, only to…
If you’re pitching liquid yeast directly from the packet without building a starter first, you’re probably underpitching — and underpitching is one of the most…
The NEIPA changed everything. Soft, hazy, intensely aromatic, low bitterness — it was a rejection of the aggressive West Coast IPA that had defined “craft…
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…
