This week I take a look at how to rapidly chill your beer in the shortest time possible so you
method
This week I take a look a the fine art of making mead and how modern mead techniques have revolutionized
This week I take a look at beer color, how it is measured, where it comes from and how color
This week I take a look at first wort hops, and whether they really do make your beer better. First
This week I cover water to grain ratios used during mashing and how it affects the mash and ultimately your
This week I take a look at the best practices for making hard seltzer at home. Seltzer has grown in
An even more limited quantity of the popular porter has been aged in oak barrels and will be exclusively available at a Noosa Eat & Drink Festival event. 
HPA’s new packaging and storage facility uses advanced technology to improve efficiency and product quality across the supply chain. This week I take a look at mash profiles in BeerSmith and how you can select the right one to
This week I take a look at spontaneous fermentation for home brewers and what you might expect from using wild
This week I take a look at when you should apply different mash techniques to achieve a particular style or
This week I take a look at the major hop techniques, and provide a perspective on which hop techniques are
This week I cover the formal definition of an International Bitterness Unit (IBU) widely used in beer recipe design, but
At Iowa's rapidly expanding Big Grove Brewery, the goal isn’t to make money today, but to make people come back tomorrow.
The post Big Grove’s Big Plans: Give Iowa a Try appeared first on CraftBeer.com.
John Palmer guides you through brewing this delightful beer, that is widely praised but far too often poorly replicated. John Palmer guides you through brewing this delightful beer, that is widely praised but far too often poorly replicated. This week I continue my series on brewing low alcohol and non alcoholic beers. I’ll cover new low-alcohol yeasts, arrested
This week I continue my series on low alcohol and non alcohol brewing for home brewers. Last week in Part
The market is responding to the growing demand for flavorful, well crafted non-alcohol beer.
The post The NA Way: The Rise of Non-Alcohol Beer appeared first on CraftBeer.com.
This week I take a look at some popular methods for making low alcohol beer at home. Commercial brewers use
This week I take a look at the brewing of very high gravity beers to include styles like Barley Wines and extreme Imperial Stouts. These beers require somewhat special handling as it can be hard to achieve the very high starting gravity and a good fermentation, and in addition they often require extensive aging. Very […] The worlds of beer and chicken have been aligned for ages, but it wasn’t until 2021 that chimaek, a Korean portmanteau for fried chicken and light beers, was welcomed into the Oxford English Dictionary.
The post Bird + Brew: A Culinary Coupling appeared first on CraftBeer.com.
John Blichmann joins me this week to discuss the evolution of home brewing equipment from the late 1980’s to the current day. 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 […] 
This week I discuss the German Step mash profile and how it can be used for Continental and German beer styles. I’ve also seen this mash referred to as a barbell mash or lager mash. The German Step Mash Profile A German Step mash is a term many of us use to denote a mash […] 
Scott Janish from Sapwood Cellars and Simon Carlsen from CHR Hansen join me this week to discuss using innovative yeasts to create low alcohol and non-alcoholic beers. 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. […] Many chefs are finding the sweet spot for beer and smoked food, managing the level of smoke intake for a more pleasurable meal.
The post Smoke and a Beer appeared first on CraftBeer.com.
Rarely does a week go by where I don’t receive an email from a user who has had a computer failure, lost laptop or lost phone resulting in BeerSmith data loss. While the BeerSmith Web version and cloud based data is automatically backed up on the sever nightly, your local data is not. Local (My […] 
Mitch Steele joins me this week to discuss Craft Beer supply chain issues, non-alcoholic beer, new yeast strains and more. 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 […] In a way, purchasing the Black Elks’ building was like coming home for Ken Carson. The building sits in a part of Albuquerque, N.M., he describes as “the ’hood.” Carson once lived here before moving to the more affluent Northeast Heights in the 1960s, where he attended high school with only three other Black students. […]
The post Soul Food and Cream Ale in Albuquerque appeared first on CraftBeer.com.
Architect and author Neil Ginty talks about some of his favorite breweries that give you a front row seat to the brewing process.
The post Form & Function: Brewery Visits with an Architect appeared first on CraftBeer.com.