5 gallons/19 liters OG: 1046/11.4°P Alcohol: 4.4% ABV Color: pale amber Bitterness: 22 IBU Yeast: do I have to tell you everything? All-Grain Recipe (calculated @ 75% efficiency) 3 pounds/ 1.4 kilos pilsener malt 2 pounds /0.9 kilos pale ale malt 2 pounds /0.9 kilos malted wheat 1.5 pounds /680 grams melanoidin Mash should be... View Article
As homebrewers, we are often called upon to brew something special to celebrate a milestone: a wedding, a graduation, or just surviving another year in the cubicle. When the audience is entirely beer-maniacal, anything goes. But the real test of a brewer is to please those used to cold, chilly and canned, while upholding your... View Article
5 gallons (19 liters) OG: 1085/15.5 degrees Plato Alcohol: 8 to 9% by volume Bitterness: 45 IBUs Color: 25 SRM (deep ruby) Yeast: British ale strain, Wyeast 1099 or 1275; White Labs WLP 002, WLP 005 All-grain recipe calculated at 75 percent efficiency All-Grain Recipe 14 pounds (6.4 kg) English mild ale malt 1.5 pounds... View Article
As a visual artist, I have always been excited by color. And even though the computer has mostly replaced physical media, I often make a wistful detour through the paint aisle in the art store on my way to buy the boring pads of paper and pencil leads I actually use to do my work.... View Article
We new brewers love hops. Sticky, resiny, pungent, citrus-drenched hops. It began as a reaction to the dumbing-down of mainstream beers, whose alpha acid levels are now about level with the human threshold, which is about 6 IBU (International Bittering Units). Like the recently starved, we eat our fill…then keep going. I used to think... View Article
5 gallons (19 liters) OG: 1075/18.2 degrees P Alcohol: 6.5 percent ABV Bitterness: 100 IBUs Color: Medium amber (13 SRM) Yeast: Your favorite ale strain. The Ballantine’s/Chico strain (White Labs WLP 001, Wyeast 1056) is classic. A liquid yeast is highly recommended. All-grain recipe calculated at 75 percent efficiency 11 pounds (5 kg) Pale ale... View Article
(Ed. Reading about old-timey beer is great, but what if you want to actually taste the same kind of beer that your great-grandfather enjoyed at the end of a hard day’s work? We asked homebrewing expert Randy Mosher to share a beer recipe that accurately conveys the flavor of a Bohemian lager of the late... View Article
As a writer, brewer and marketing guy, I love words. Words have the power to convey thoughts, inspire the imagination and reveal hidden secrets, so I don’t take it likely when I say this: We just have to kill one.
Porter is likely the world’s most confusing beer style. Attempting to unravel its inner secrets through diligent scholarship is futile: the more you study it, the more incomprehensible it becomes. A true shape-shifter of a beer, porter changes continually, generation after generation. In trying to decide what a porter should be today, the would-be porter... View Article
