Dry Hopping 101 Mike Reintz Continuing our precedent of including some sort of educational component in each newsletter, this month we present some tips & guidelines for dry-hopping to tie in with the planned experiment. • Dry-hopping is a great…
Crystal vs Caramel malt Mike Reintz There was an interesting article in Brew Your Own back in October of 2013 regarding Crystal Malt versus Caramel Malt. I shared these highlights with the homebrew shop staff at 3 Stars, but I…
Tiny Ball Lock Keg–Product Review By Calvin Perilloux Is this the smallest ball-lock beer keg on the market? Probably so. Is this the most convenient draft beer container for parties? Maybe. Is this really a great little keg? Well… This…
Spicing Up Your Beer By Steve Marler It’s November, it is getting colder, and Thanksgiving is right around the corner. Many brewers have or are starting to think about brewing beers for the holidays, and the December BURP meeting. Some…
Bottle Sanitation Scott Burns Bottle conditioned beers are either unfiltered or havebeen filtered and then reseeded with yeast. A variety of sugars can be added to the beer and then placed in a sealed bottle to “re-ferment”. Scott Burns indicates…
Aeration on the Cheap by Steve Marler Just as your partner breathes heavily during sex, somemore than others, yeast needs oxygen to grow and reproduce.Yeast grows and reproduces first, and then they begin eating sugar, and excreting alcohol and carbon…
Hot-Weather Wort Cooling Steve Marler Many brewers, such as our Fearless Leader, do not brew in the summer. Heat is one of the main reasons. Some that brew outside don’t want sweat dripping into the wort. But the bigger issue…
Preventing Boilovers Steve Marler A Tip to Help Prevent Boilovers from The Phantom Brewer , Thursday August 27 2009. Thanks to the Maltose Falcons (www.maltosefalcons.com)A good rolling boil is important for a beer. Lots of good stuff happens during the…
An Introduction to Carbonating Beers By Robert Stevens 4/2013 Carbonating beer is one of the final steps in the brewing process and is an important flavor component in beer. It adds effervescence and life to beer. We can taste the…