In this article, you will learn a step-by-step guide on how to bottle beer at home. Sometime after his death in 1602, Alexander Nowell, an Anglican priest, was credited by historian Thomas Fuller with the accidental invention of bottled beer. As the legend goes, Nowell had been fishing and left a bottle of ale behind. …
In this article, we’ll share with you our picks for the best digital thermometer for home brewing. Temperature plays a vital role in homebrewing. Each phase of the process has a specific temperature that is best. Being able to correctly and accurately measure the temperature of your boil, sparge water, wort and fermentation means that …
This article will help you understand how to select and create the best water for brewing beer. As homebrewers, we think an awful lot about things like grains, yeast, and hops. But the main ingredient of our homebrew is often left to chance and can be the single largest reason for homebrew that isn’t great. …
Are you wondering how to crush your own malts at home? Learn more in this article. When I got my first job at a small brewery, I looked forward to days spent developing recipes, tending to a gently rolling boil, and assessing the quality of the results. What I did not picture was hours spent …
In this article, you will learn what a hydrometer is, how to interpret hydrometer reading and how to use a hydrometer for brewing beer at home. One of the mysterious pieces of equipment in a homebrewer’s tool kit is the hydrometer. This thermometer-like tool has strange markings and speaks a language many of us forgot …
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In this article, we’ll offer our suggestions for the eight best conical fermenters for homebrewers. Fermentation is an essential part of the brewing process. After all, without fermentation, you really just have a pot full of strange-tasting tea, and that’s not great. Because this step is so important and tends to have the greatest room …
In this article, we’ll offer our suggestions for the best grain mill for home brewing. A great homebrew starts with the right grains. If you’ve been brewing for any amount of time, you’re sure to have noticed that you don’t just dump some grain kernels in your mash tun. Your grains are always milled or crushed. This process breaks open the …
Malted barley is essential to making beer; in this article, we’ll give you the best malted barley list for home brewing. When we talk about malted barley or “malt” in the beer brewing process, we refer to the base grains used in the beer. Barley and other grains (depending on the beer style) give beer …
In this post, we’ll break down the differences between batch sparge vs fly sparge for homebrewing. For a long time, we used kits to brew our beer. Most beer kits are extract-based, so no sparge is required. However, as we’ve moved into all-grain brewing, learning the age-old tradition of sparging has become necessary. For many …
In this post, we offer some fun ways to recycle empty kegs into useful objects. Learn more about how to empty beer keg ideas. A friend recently turned an old keg into a smoker. We thought this was a brilliant idea, but we weren’t sure that it would work. So we were quite surprised that …
