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Today I focus on some of the principles of good beer recipe design, and how they can help improve your beer. As many of you know I’ve been doing presentations and classes on the topic of beer recipe design for some time now, and thought it best to summarize some of the key elements below: […] Lick Pier, the world’s tastiest ginger beer, has a new flavour. Lick Pier Tropical Ginger Beer was supposed to be released last summer, but COVID got in the way… Now, the new release finds itself in the midst of our harsh lockdown rules and promises to take your body and mind on that tropical holiday […]
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This week I take a look at one of those little known features in BeerSmith brewing software that can make building recipes just a little easier. This feature is available in the desktop, mobile and web based versions of BeerSmith. What is “Save as Default”? When you build a recipe in BeerSmith from scratch you […] 
This week I take a look at the hop cone and how its composition affects flavors when brewing beer. Hop Cone Composition If we look at the hop cone image (upper right, Source: Stan Hieronymus) we can see the various parts of the hop cone. The bulk of the compounds we are interested in are […] 
Stan Hieronymus joins me this week to discuss hop survivables, biotransformations, and understanding which hop oils survive the brewing process. Subscribe on iTunes to Audio version or Video version or Spotify or Google Play Download the MP3 File– Right Click and Save As to download this mp3 file. Your browser does not support the audio […] 
This week I take look at hop isomerization in beer brewing and how it applies to brewers. Isomerized alpha acids in beer are the primary bittering compound used to offset the sweetness of the malt in beer. What is Isomerization? Isomerization is a process where a molecule is transformed into another molecule that contains the […] Catalyst want eligible Sydneysiders to take part in a six-week brewing challenge.
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I believe Dunkelweizen is one of the best bang for your buck all grain beers, which makes it great for beginners. It is chock full of malty goodness and honestly very easy to brew provided you have rice hulls on standby. It is a marriage of the malty complex flavors of a bock with the
This week I take a look at how to exchange profiles and ingredients between the desktop version of BeerSmith and the web based version. These features were added as part of the BeerSmith 3.2 release and BeerSmith Web release. These features are also covered in a video tutorial on web based profiles and ingredients here. […] Xavier Losada joins me this week from Madrid Spain to discuss his experiences as a Chemical Engineer for a big brewery and his transition to a Craft Brewery owner with Bee Beer. Subscribe on iTunes to Audio version or Video version or Spotify or Google Play Download the MP3 File– Right Click and Save As […] New beer designed to pair with the restaurant group’s contemporary Chinese dishes.
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This week I take a look at the big six water ions in your water profile that drive the water chemistry of beer brewing. The Big Six Water Ions When we measure our starting brewing water or adjust our water, there are six main ions dissolved in the water that drive the mash pH as […] 
This week I take a look at the various versions and options available for using BeerSmith to develop your beer, mead, wine and cider recipes. This list is current as of mid 2021 following the release of BeerSmith 3.2 desktop and BeerSmith Web. BeerSmith Versions and Platforms BeerSmith Desktop – The BeerSmith desktop program, currently […] Jamil Zainasheff, founder of Heretic Brewing joins me this week for a beer brewing question and answer session. I apologize for the audio quality – we had some echo coming through from Jamil’s audio feed. Subscribe on iTunes to Audio version or Video version or Spotify or Google Play Download the MP3 File– Right Click […] This week I take a look at IBU levels in beer, how they are estimated and how they are measured in ways that may surprise most brewers! This article started with a question from a brewer who simply asked “Is the IBU estimate produced by BeerSmith a measure of IBUs before fermentation or in the […] In this video, I show you how to brew a classic Belgian-Style Tripel. This video covers the recipe, the brew, the fermentation and the final tasting. This is easily one of my all-time favorite styles of beer and is surprisingly not too difficult to brew, provided good fermentation control. I selected a proven strain of
Hops get all the attention—all the fame, puns and glory while yeast does almost all the work. Hops dominate label space, and varieties like Cascade, Strata and Citra are practically house-hold names, thanks to the seemingly unquenchable demand for every category of IPA. Yet basic beer ale yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is abstract to most people, […]
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In this video, I brewed a New England IPA (NEIPA) in an attempt to redeem myself from the last time when my NEIPA oxidized, since I bottled it. Wielding kegs this time and building on lessons learned from the last recipe, I succeeded this time. This particular NEIPA came out wonderfully, with a creamy mouthfeel,
Come hang out with me as I take you along on one of my home brew days. In this video I walk you through my brew in a bag process brewing a hazy pale ale with a ton of late addition hops. More details on individual steps of my processes to come, but here’s an
Michael Fairbrother from Moonlight Meadery joins me this week to discuss honey varieties and mead making. Michael is owner and founder of the award winning Moonlight Meadery. Subscribe on iTunes to Audio version or Video version or Spotify or Google Play Download the MP3 File– Right Click and Save As to download this mp3 file. […] This was a sunny & hot brew day. Today I made one of my favorite recipes – Vienna lager. A malt forward, low IBU refreshing lager. A smoot brew day it was. Cheers Music from https://filmmusic.io Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org)
This week I take a look at how you can create custom reports in the BeerSmith desktop program. This feature is currently only available on the desktop version of BeerSmith. The process described below applies to BeerSmith 3. BeerSmith 2 had a slightly different setup where you need to copy your template to the Documents/Reports […] Happy HBW all! Here is a short but straight to the point review about my Simply Pale Ale, brewed with a bag of malt extract from Home Brew Online. Easy to make and it tastes… Cheers my friends! Oh yeah, first beer review in a hurry so be nice to me please 🙂
Strapped for time before St Patrick’s Day? In this video I show you how to make an Irish Red Ale, which is very easy to take from grain to glass in a week. By pitching a very healthy yeast starter and by oxygenating with pure O2, I was able to get fermentation to complete in
This week I take a look at hop aroma oils and some of the best ways to get them into your beer. Fragile hop aroma oils can be very challenging both due to their low vapor/boiling point and low solubility. What are Hop Aroma Oils? Aromatic hop oils are oils in the hop cone that […] Melbourne brewery’s new venue opens in former Phillip Morris cigarette factory.
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Seven Latino men gathered on a Hacienda Heights driveway on a warm Southern California night. Shiny homebrewing equipment filled the garage so the fledgling craft brewers stood in the car port—pint glasses in hand—sharing names, hometowns and brewing experiences. The SoCal Cerveceros homebrew club was born. “We didn’t really know what it was going to […]
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Scott Mast and Chris Vogel join me this week to discuss Great Lakes proprietary hops and the resurgence of hop growing in the Midwestern US. Subscribe on iTunes to Audio version or Video version or Spotify or Google Play Download the MP3 File– Right Click and Save As to download this mp3 file. Your browser […] 
This week I take a look at how you can use a blend of hop varieties rather than a single variety to maximize your hop flavor and aroma. Why Blend Your Hops While brewers often use different hop varieties for boil hopping, whirlpool hopping and dry hopping, I was not that familiar with the technique […]