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Hot Enough For Ya?(Post)
By Greig McGill Fermentation temperature control is, in my opinion, one of the most critical yet most commonly neglected keys to brewing great beer. Having just come out of an unusually warm summer ...
Recipe Building(Post)Recipe BuildingBy Greig McGillSo ya wanna brew a beer? Where do you start? Are you trying to clone (or approximate) something you love? Come up with a new beer you’ve tasted in your dreams? Or simply ...
Bubbles for Beginners - Understanding Carbonation(Post)By Greig McGill Carbonation - the amount of “fizz” in our beer caused by dissolved carbon dioxide (CO2) - can make all the difference between a good beer and a truly great one. While getting the co ...
Philly Sour Tips & Tricks(Post)We regularly receive queries on when and how best to use Philly Sour yeast, so we consulted the experts and makers of Philly Sour yeast - Lallemand Brewing. Philly Sour yeast is a great choice for br ...
Hop Handling 101(Post)By Greig McGillHops are, for all intents and purposes, the mascot of the craft beer revolution. While there are plenty of beer aficionados who are not hop-heads, the loudest, proudest, and certainly ...
You and your refractometer(Post)Your refractometer is the perfect instrument for quick gravity measurements on brew-day. With one of these, there is no more need for large sample volumes, no waiting for the wort to cool or correcti ...
Brew Building From Scratch(Post)Want to start building your own brews from scratch rather than using someone else's recipe? Then here's a little insight on how to give this a go, but take note, it can be a long and slow process. &n ...
Dry Hoppery(Post)By Greig McGill Dry hopping. There’s so much talk about it, and it’s practically de rigueur these days for any hoppy style of beer to be at least dry hopped once, with double dry hopping, and eve ...
This Isn't Harry Potter: No More Butterbeer!(Post)By Greig McGill I am not easily surprised or shocked these days. I’m getting on a bit you see, and have been firmly in the “beer nerd” camp for over a quarter of a century, and a brewer (both home ...
A Sparge By Any Other Name...(Post)By Greig McGillFollowing on from the last post, sparging - rinsing of residual sugars from the mash bed using hot water - can be accomplished by various methods. The goal is the same. The brewer want ...
White Labs Yeast - Ingredients(Page)White Labs Liquid Yeast Brewshop offers you the White Labs range of quality liquid yeast. The yeast is supplied in PurePitch packs or vials which we surround with ice packs and ship to you. View t ...
Mash Tun Fun - Process(Page)An Intro to Making a Mash Tun In beer brewing, mashing is the process of combining a mix of milled/crushed grain (typically malted barley with supplementary grains such as corn or wheat), known as ...
