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pH – pHantastic or pHooey?(Post)
pH – pHantastic or pHooey? By Greig McGill You’ve all probably heard about pH. You probably know what it measures, in practical terms anyway. The exact nature of pH is about as chemistry nerdy a ...
The Biggest Ingredient - Part Two(Post)By Greig McGill So ya wanna adjust some water, eh kiddo? Well lemme tell you… no seriously, here’s my design process for my brewing liquor - the fancy professional term we almost never use in the b ...
The Biggest Ingredient - Part One(Post)By Greig McGill Well, I can’t put it off any more! The Brewshop.co.nz team has been asking me to write this article for … far too long now. I’ve put it off because, no matter how much I think I kno ...
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 ...
Unclutter Your Brewing(Post)Unclutter Your BrewingBy Greig McGillThis month, the fun and funky team at Brewshop have asked me to write about some general tips and tricks for brewing. I thought I’d centre them around a theme tha ...
Yeast Unleashed(Post)By Greig McGillMany of us as homebrewers can get locked into our ways. We can be slow to embrace new advances in technology, or new science which might shake up our conceptions of how we can or shoul ...
Variables and Variability(Post)By Greig McGill While the title might sound like Jane Austen’s forgotten romance novel set against the backdrop of the steamy science community, I assure you this article is about brewing! Specif ...
Join The Club(Post)By Greig McGill I was listening to a podcast while cleaning in the brewery the other day, and a question from a New Zealand listener came in asking about, or rather bemoaning the lack of, homebre ...
A Lagery Use-Case for Crystal Wheat Malt(Post)By Greig McGill Courtesy of Gladfield Malt When Gladfield approached me to try using Gladfields’ new CrystalWheat malt, I was intrigued by the possibilities. Crystal malts seem to have been som ...
Keg vs Bottle(Post)Keg vs BottleBy Greig McGillIf there’s one part of brewing that most home brewers seem to dislike, it’s bottling. All those individual bottles to clean and sanitise. Fretting over whether to bulk pri ...
Yeast Importance - Ingredients(Page)YEAST, AND WHY IT'S IMPORTANT IN MAKING HOME BREW BEER Yeast are important little beasties in home brew, yet too often are forgotten about, like the leftovers at the back of the fridge. But improvin ...
Love Your Yeast - Ingredients(Page)Yeast, and why it's important in making home brew beer Yeast are important little beasties in home brew, yet too often are forgotten about, like the leftovers at the back of the fridge. But improv ...
