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7 Must-Try Stout Recipes to Brew at Home
From classic dry to spicy chai, we’ve compiled 7 different stout recipes that cover an array of directions in which the stout style can be taken. You can find many more …More
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Bread From Beer Grains: How to Make Spent Grain Bread
When the mash and the boil are finished and your wort is happily mixing with your yeast in the fermentor, what is there to do with the grains left over …More
Esters vs. Phenols in Beer
When perceiving certain aromas of beer, you may hear people refer to “esters” and “phenols.” These terms are often times used incorrectly or interchangeably. The fact of the matter is, …More
Brooklyn Brewery’s Tips on Yeast Health
Yeast is absolutely critical to beer, which makes it critical to you as a homebrewer. On a basic level, yeast converts sugar to ethanol and CO2, but there is so …More
AHA-approved beer, mead and cider recipes
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The Boil Rumble Competition: Brew Your Beer with Melvin Brewing
Melvin Brewing wants to brew and can your homebrew club’s beer! Like many craft brewers, Melvin Brewing has a humble beginning rooted in homebrew. “I started out the typical way, extract …More
What do the American Homebrewers Association and a turkey have in common?
When the American Homebrewers Association came to be in 1978, the inaugural logo featured a jovial turkey clutching a beer bottle and bushel of barley. But why the turkey? AHA founders Charlie …More
Annual Capitol Hill Homebrew Competition Brings Democrats and Republicans Together
December 17, 2018 It was a warm scene Tuesday night at the annual Capitol Hill Staff Homebrew Competition award ceremony. Hosted by the Brewers Association (BA) and American Homebrewers Association (AHA), …More
American Homebrewers Association Crowns Winners of Third Annual ‘Hill Staff Homebrew Competition’
Washington, D.C. • December 11, 2018 – Winners of the third annual Hill Staff Homebrew Competition were announced today by the American Homebrewers Association® (AHA) during a reception on Capitol Hill. Twenty-two entries were submitted …More
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How to Build a Mash Tun
Unless you’re using the brew in a bag technique, a mash tun is an essential piece of equipment when advancing to all-grain brewing. Mash tuns come in all shapes, sizes …More
How to Build a Hop Oast
Growing hops at home is a common past time of the homebrewer. It’s a great way to be more hands on with your homebrew, to supplement some of the hops …More
How to Build a Temperature Controller
This dual-stage temperature controller is perfect for managing temperatures of your kegerator, fermentation chamber or keezer. It allows for a hot and a cool trigger to be individually controlled, so …More
Party Time: Homebrew Club Bars
Drew Beechum is a past president of the Maltose Falcons and a frequent contributor to Zymurgy. This article appeared in the Mar/Apr 2008 issue of Zymurgy magazine. Ah, that satisfied smirk …More
