
Win a Barley Crusher! To kick off the hot summer season, we’re giving away a 7lb Barley Crusher malt mill to an email subscriber picked at random from our subscriber list. The Barley Crusher happens to be my personal choice of malt mill – I’ve had mine for several years now, and love it. On [...]

This week on the BeerSmith Blog we feature an interview with fellow beer blogger Al from Hop Talk. Hop Talk is one of the more popular beer blogs on the internet. Hop Talk covers microbrews, the brewing industry and beer news. While Al occasionally touches on home brewing as well, the focus is often on [...]

This week we rejoin with part two of our series on homebrewing fruit beers. In last week’s article we provided an overview of brewing with fruit and the characteristics of some of the better fruits to use in beer. This week we will cover designing fruit beer recipes and also the physical process of home [...]

Have you ever wanted to access the BeerSmith blog on the go? We recently added an iphone/mobile friendly version of the blog. If you access the BeerSmith blog from your iphone, blackberry or many other mobile devices, you will now see that it has been formatted into a phone friendly theme. If you want to [...]

Brewing fruit beer is not for everyone, but a properly balanced fruit beer can be light and refreshing on a hot summer day. This is part one of our two part series on home brewing fruit beer. Beers that include fruit vary widely in taste, style and strength.