Get BeerSmith brewing apparel and gear featuring the new BeerSmith logo!  Several years ago, a handful of you were fortunate enough to get our first run of BeerSmith shirts, and I’m happy to say we’ve now put together a store with various shirt styles, and even a few extras.
With the new gear, you can join [...]

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This week on the BeerSmith blog we turn to the Russian Imperial Stout beer style, the king of stout beers. We will explore the origin, history, beer style and some sample Imperial Stout beer recipes for home brewers.

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This week marks the end of the second year of the BeerSmith Home Brewing Blog, and this is our 94th published article on home brewing.  It has been a great experience to date, giving me a chance to learn about and write on a huge number of brewing topics.  I’ve started a few more projects [...]

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This week we are honored to feature an interview with Gordon Strong, the current Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) President, as well as the world’s only Grand Master Level V Beer Judge.  Gordon is also an accomplished home brewer, who won the 2009 Ninkasi award as the American Homebrewer’s Association Winningest Brewer.  I would like [...]

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Over the years, I’ve come to realize that the basic principles of beer recipes design are often misunderstood and rarely well articulated.  This week we’re going to look at how you can design a great beer recipes at home using a tried and true process. What follows is an what I consider an overview of [...]

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This week we look at how to enhance your home brewed beers using a technique called aeration.  Aeration with oxygen is very important for fermenting beer, but needs to be applied at the right time to brew good beer.   Let’s take a look at aeration and how important it is for brewing great beer at [...]

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This week we we feature an interview with brewer Dan Morey.  Dan is the originator of the “Morey equation” for estimating beer color, which is used by BeerSmith and other packages.  Dan is also an active brewer in the Midwest, regular competitor and organizer for this year’s Babble Brew-off.  Thanks again to Dan for taking [...]

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This week we cover the technical topic of the diastatic power for mashing your all grain beer.  While rarely covered, this topic is an important one, especially for home brewers making beers with high percentages of non-barley or specialty grains.  This is an important topic for partial mash brewers as well, since they are often [...]

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We recently assembled a series of video tutorials for using our BeerSmith Home Brewing software. The series of 11 videos provide a good overview of many of BeerSmith’s key features. We hope to publish additional videos in the future.

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German Altbier or Alt is a top fermenting beer that originated in the German Westphalia region and later grew in popularity around the Rhineland. This week we take a look at brewing Altbier at home.

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