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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 ...
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 ...
Breakin’ the Law! Breakin’ the Law!(Post)By Greig McGill I know “mindful” is a bit of a buzzword these days, with every hippie snake-oil seller on the planet wanting you to align your chakras and focus your third eye or whatever ...
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 ...
Making Sense of Judging Feedback(Post)Making Sense of Judging FeedbackBy Greig McGillHaving been on both sides of the scoresheet, so to speak, I thought it could be useful to create a practical guide to interpreting what can occasionally ...
DIY Sports Drinks: How Homebrewing Ingredients Can Fuel Your PB (And Save Your Wallet)(Post)Endurance athletes and homebrewers actually share a lot in common. Both are obsessed with water chemistry, precise measurements and temperature control. But there is another massive crossover that mo ...
Grain Expectations - Part One(Post)By Greig McGill You’ve probably heard it said that malt is the soul of a beer. Hops might get all the glory, but without malted barley, beer wouldn’t be beer. It provides sweetness to balance the h ...
The Future? You’re Standing In It!(Post)By Greig McGill Beer and brewing is a funny old world. Everything old is constantly new again, as we rediscover old beer styles, brewing methods, and even semi-forgotten scientific knowledge (hop-c ...
The Best Fest!(Post)By Greig McGill It’s that time of year when we all wish we were in Munich, and so it seemed like a good time to talk about the most well-known festival in the world, the beer styles it has spawned, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cleaning Brewing Equipment - Equipment(Page)Cleaning and sanitising your homebrew equipment So you’ve got your homebrew gear, you’ve got the hops, yeast, and grains, you’ve cleared some space in the garage, and there&rsquo ...
