Imperial Raspberry IPA This beer is pretty experimental for me because I haven’t seen a lot of similar beers on the market and I have been told this is a bad idea. But I keep imagining this fruity hoppy beer in my head that sounds so amazing and I want to prove these negative Nancy’s …
To be a good brewer and judge of other beers you need to be able to recognize off flavors in your beer and be able to know where and why these off flavors are there. There are many flavors in beer that the common drinker would think were “off” or out of place might actually …
I have brewed many beers, and every once and a while one would be just a little cloudy. It never bothered me much because the beer still tasted fine, and to me that’s all that really matters. But I do like a good-looking clear beer as well. There are many reasons that your beer could …
To some this article is trivial because you already boil your wort. But there may be some things that you did not know about the boiling process. There are some small kits out there that actually do not require you to boil the wort. I highly recommend you don’t use these because of the huge …
When brewing and extract beer you will usually be adding some specialty grains to the batch. These grains are used to add in specialty flavors like chocolate, rye and honey into your base beer. But they are also made for the extract brewer because Crystal malt only needs a short steeping time to extract the sugars. Crystal malt or Caramel …
When I first started out brewing I didn’t know a Brew kettle from a fermentation bucket. So I began like most do with an extract beer kit. The beers were turning out good and the instructions in the kit were very helpful in brewing my first beers. But the kits never really seemed to hit the mark …
Final gravity is the measurement of how many solids are suspended in your beer after fermentation. Original gravity, the specific gravity before you ferment, is used with the final gravity to determine how much alcohol the beer has in it. These measurements are taken with a hydrometer. If you do not have a hydrometer, I …
Of course, you always have the option of kegging, but homebrewers start out with bottling because it has a cheaper entry point. Even if you do keg, you may still bottle some of your beers due to lack of kegs to put all your beers in. Some beers, like porters and IPAs, get a lot …