How To Brew Munich Helles
Important hints on homebrewing a great Munich Helles recipe.
Category: Ingredients
Is the Lupulin Threshold Shift Fact or Fiction?
Do beer drinkers build up a resistance to hops? It’s a question that’s surrounded by controversy and uncertainty, with experts from all over giving their input on the matter.
Hefeweizen Yeast Selection Experiment
How to select and pitch the perfect hefeweizen yeast to the get the phenolic, estery and wheaty flavors that make this style so special.
Mastering British Porters
The original London Porter was a smoked beer which utilized exclusively British Brown malt, smoked over Hornbeam. There was until fairly recently a general consensus that it was in its original form a mixture of a ‘mild’ beer (actually a ‘fresh’ or ‘green’ beer) and a ‘stale’ (or mature beer with sub-acetic ‘sour’ flavor).
Dough Balls & Mashing
Depending on what you believe in from threads in the forums, “dough balls” muck with your efficiency. Think about the outer surface of the dough ball as a protective shell and insulation. What it’s effectively doing is keeping the hot liquor from mingling with a portion of your grain. Read about how to avoid dough balls in your mash.
Growing Hops: Soil Preparation & Composting With Spent Grains
Before long, any homebrewer with a little yard space is going to start eyeing up the corners of his or her yard and thinking about where to plant some hops. Gardening for your homebrew is a great extension of the hobby, and even with a plant as big as hop plants, you don’t need as much space as you think!
