Articles
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Water Treatment
By Karl Kin (Brewing Techniques) Water Treatment: Philosophy, Approach, and Calculations The chemical calculations for water treatment can be intimidating to those who are not...
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Brewing With Rye
By Rosannah Hayden An ancient grain is making a new name for itself in the small-scale brewing scene. Necessity is not always the mother of...
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Methods of Sanitization and Sterilization
By Maribeth Raines (Brewing Techniques) Boiling in water and soaking in chlorine bleach may be insufficient safeguards against infectious bacteria and fungi. Some simple laboratory...
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The Life of a Yeast Cell
By Dan Put (Brewing Techniques) The Secret Reproductive Life of Yeast To better understand the importance of wort aeration, let’s look at what happens to...
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Lambic: Belgium's Unique Treasure
by Martin Lodahl (Brewing Techniques) Lambic: Belgium’s Unique Treasure But is it really beer?” The first taste of a lambic is almost always a surprise...
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Dextrin Malt - Carapils and Maltodextrin
By Dave Miller (Brewing Techniques) Dextrin Malt Q: Is it correct to assume that all extract from dextrin malt is in the form of dextrins...
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Water Hardness
by Dave Miller (Brewing Techniques) Question: After seeing references in various beer publications and books on water analysis, I decided to contact my local officials...
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Advanced Mashing Techniques
By Jim Busch (Brewing Techniques) Mashing 102 — Advanced Material In a way, mashing is the natural progression of malting. Both act to take a...
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Climbing North America's Highest Peak to Brew a New Record!
Some people who are on the 'outside' of the hobby think that home brewers are obsessive. Of course they are right. Take for example...
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Lowest Recorded North American Brew
In 1998 Regan Dillon and Olin Schultz of Beer, Beer & More Beer along with Mike Rose and Mike Cullen set the world record for...
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One Beer, Two Batches!
High-Gravity Brewing Q: Is it advisable to brew a strong 5-gallon wort, divide it into two batches and add an equal amount of water to...
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Why not dry hop at pitching time?
Three reasons. First, if you use the blowoff method, either the hops will clog the blowoff tube or the kraeusen will pump hops out of...
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Calibrating Bimetallic Thermometers
We recently heard a story where a commercial brewery was not obtaining the final gravities they were expecting. After fingers were pointed at equipment manufacturers...
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Beer Kits - Our Personal Breweries Listed Out
Beer Kits The MoreBeer!™ mission is to provide reliable equipment and quality ingredients to make the brewing experience successfuland satisfying. We’ll get you the tools...
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HomeBrew Off Flavors and How to Avoid
These are some of the many common off-flavors that can occur when brewing beer at home. Along with a description of these common flavors, we...
