This week we feature an interview with Randy Mosher, author of the books “Brewer’s Companion”, “Tasting Beer”, and my personal favorite “Radical Brewing“.  Randy is an accomplished long time brewer (27+ years) who was in on some of the early days of the homebrewing resurgence in the 1980’s and 1990’s.  Randy is also an accomplished [...]

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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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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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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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A collection of holiday gift ideas for home brewers as we enter this 2009 holiday season.

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The German Marzen and Oktoberfest beer styles are seasonal favorites of beer drinkers worldwide. As we enter the fall season, we take a look at the traditional Marzen and Oktoberfest beer recipes and how to brew them at home.

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Brew the right seasonal beers by starting early. This week we look at when to brew your seasonal beer favorites so they arrive on time for your favorite holiday.

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Today we’ll take a look at a homebrewing technique called the “blow-off method” or Burton Union System for improving your beer. The blow-off method removes proteins, tannins, grain husks, hops and other undesirable materials that tend to form at the top of the fermenter during the early stages of active fermentation.

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The balance between bitter hops and sweet malts has always been important in crafting world class beer. This week we take a look at the bitterness ratio and how you can use it to improve the balance of homebrewed beer recipes.

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