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Beer Yeast, Fermentation, and Home Brewing

Posted on June 18th, 2008
by Brad Smith in Beer, Homebrewing
Tags:Beer,brewers,brewing,fermentation,yeast

Beer Yeast, Fermentation, and Home Brewing

Today we look at home brewing beer yeast, fermentation, and how it affects the flavor and character of finished beer. Yeast is one of the most important ingredients in home brewing, but also one of the least understood.

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Soft Pretzels: A Recipe for Bavarian Pretzels

Posted on May 3rd, 2008
by Brad Smith in Beer, Homebrewing
Tags:bavarian,Beer,german,making,pretzel,pretzels,recipe

Soft Pretzels: A Recipe for Bavarian Pretzels

Enjoy soft pretzels at home with your homebrewed beer! Today we present a recipe for making large soft German beer pretzels from the comfort of your kitchen.

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Beer Color: Understanding SRM, Lovibond and EBC

Posted on April 29th, 2008
by Brad Smith in Beer, Homebrewing
Tags:Beer,color,lovibond,srm

Beer Color: Understanding SRM, Lovibond and EBC

Beer spans an endless array of colors. The deep black color and white foam of an Irish Stout, deep copper of a Pale Ale and cloudy light color of a Bavarian Wheat are all within the rainbow we call beer. Today we’ll look at beer color, SRM, EBC, Lovibond, how its measured, color limitations, and how to estimate the color of a beer recipe.

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Brewing Hops Storage: Preserving Precious Hops

Posted on April 15th, 2008
by Brad Smith in Beer, Homebrewing
Tags:aging,brewing,hop,hops,preserving,storage

Brewing Hops Storage: Preserving Precious Hops

Today we’re going to look at the best way to store and preserve your beer brewing hops and also some of the effects of hop aging. With hop prices pushing $5 US per ounce and the hops crisis likely to get worse before it gets better, caring for your precious hops supply is more important than ever…

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6 Tips for Crystal Clear Home Brewed Beer

Posted on March 26th, 2008
by Brad Smith in Beer, Homebrewing
Tags:Beer,clarity,Homebrewing,tips

6 Tips for Crystal Clear Home Brewed Beer

This week we give you six tips to improve the clarity of your home brewed beer. A bright, sparkling clear beer is highly prized by most consumers, yet clear beer can be elusive for the average home brewer. Commercial brewers use fining agents, filtering, and pasteurization techniques to keep their beer crystal clear…

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New BrewPoll Home Brewing and Craft Beer News Site

Posted on March 20th, 2008
by Brad Smith in Beer, Homebrewing, News
Tags:Beer,Homebrewing,News,social

New BrewPoll Home Brewing and Craft Beer News Site

We’re pleased to announce the launch of the BrewPoll Home Brewing and Craft Beer News Site. After launching into the Web 2.0 with BrewWiki a few years ago and this blog the last few months, I’ve been fascinated with the way that many new social sites are able to find and promote the “best of the web”…

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Sam Adams offers 20,000 lbs of Hops to Microbrewers

Posted on March 5th, 2008
by Brad Smith in Beer, News
Tags:crisis,hops,ingredients,microbrewer,News

Sam Adams offers 20,000 lbs of Hops to Microbrewers

Given the hop shortage of 2008 we featured in an earlier article, it was great to hear that Samuel Adams will be offering 20,000 pounds of Tettnang and East Kent Goldings hops pellets for sale to microbreweries at cost. Though the 88 pound boxes are above the reach of most homebrewers, the sale is [...]

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Beer Styles: Making a Porter Recipe

Posted on March 1st, 2008
by Brad Smith in Beer, Beer Styles, Homebrewing
Tags:Beer,Homebrewing,porter,recipe,styles

Beer Styles: Making a Porter Recipe

Porter is a English beer style that has become very popular in the United States. This week we will look at the origins of Porter, how to brew Porter at home and provide a collection of sample recipes. When I started brewing back in the 1980’s, the microbrewery revolution was still in its [...]

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