This week we feature a short interview with Dan Listermann of Listermann Manufacturing. You may not instantly recognize Dan’s name, but most home brewers have seen Listermann’s line of products including his innovative “Phil’s” line including Phil’s Phalse Bottom, Phil’s Lauter Tun and Phil’s Sparger.

We’re pleased to announce that our BeerSmith Home Brewing Recipe Software is now available on professionally printed CD’s through selected retailers. You can help by recommending BeerSmith to your local home brewing store owner.

Ten hop-saving tips for surviving the ongoing hop crisis. With brewing hops in short supply, everyone is looking for ways to use less hops. This week’s article includes a collection of home brewing tips to conserve and preserve your precious hops supply and save you money in the process.

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”…

St Patrick’s day is Monday March 17th 2008, right? Well it turns out that things are not so simple. Due to the early Easter holiday this year, St Patrick’s day conflicts with holy week. Because of this, Roman Catholic Church officials have moved St Patrick’s day feast up to Saturday the 15th [...]

The Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) recently released an updated beer style guide for 2008. The latest version of BeerSmith was just released and incorporates the new BJCP style guide as well as new equal running batch sparge options for batch sparge brewers…

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 [...]

If you’ve made a trip to the local homebrew store you have probably noticed that hop prices are up and many of your favorite hops simply are not available at any price. I ordered hops last week at prices over $4 per ounce for some varieties. What caused the shortage? What does it mean [...]

I recently reorganized the BeerSmith home brewing recipes archive. It now lists over 300 web recipes by beer style and also has new recipe packs for malt extract, all grain and partial mash brewers.
Thanks again to all who contributed these outstanding recipes for public use. Join us on the BeerSmith discussion [...]