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Beer, Mead, and Wine: A Fermentation Love Triangle
Beer, Mead, and Wine: A Fermentation Love Triangle
Throughout history, beer, mead, and wine have come together to create a number of hybrid beverages that you can make at home.
The Boil Experiment: Lid On vs Lid Off
The Boil Experiment: Lid On vs Lid Off
The Brulosopher set out to see if there are actually any noticeable differences when boiling beer with the lid on compared with the lid off.
7 Tips on Brewing German Wheat Beers
7 Tips on Brewing German Wheat Beers
Chris Swersey and Chuck Skypeck currently serve as technical staffers at the Brewers Association (BA). Both had long careers as craft brewers before joining the BA staff. As brewers at Mickey Finn’s (Libertyville, Illinois), Leinenkugel’s Ballyard Brewery…
5 Common Beer Off-Flavors and How to Fix Them
5 Common Beer Off-Flavors and How to Fix Them
Having the ability to critique your beer and identify homebrew off-flavors is an invaluable skill when pursuing the highest quality beer.
The Impact of Cold-Side Oxidation on New England IPA
The Impact of Cold-Side Oxidation on New England IPA
Explore the differences between a New England IPA transferred to a CO2 purged keg and the same beer transferred to a non-purged keg.
Tuesday Beer Trivia: Earth-Friendly Brewing
What’s the Difference Between Ale and Lager?
What’s the Difference Between Ale and Lager?
There are a number of misconceptions concerning the differences between ales and lagers. If you were asked to offer blanket statements like "all ales are like this" and "all lagers are like that," you would be stuck. After all, both ales…
Southern Hemisphere Homebrewing
Southern Hemisphere Homebrewing
[This article is the online extra article of the January/February 2018 issue of Zymurgy magazine.] At the second annual South American Homebrewers Cup (2ª Copa Sudamericana de Homebrewers), a wise man pointed out to me…
Weissbier Flavor Chemistry
Weissbier Flavor Chemistry
Editor's Note: This article complements Chris Colby's article "The Many Ways to Weissbier" that appears in the January/February 2018 issue of Zymurgy. Arguably, the most interesting bit of chemistry relevant to brewing a wheat…
2 Ways to Make Ginger Extract for Brewing
2 Ways to Make Ginger Extract for Brewing
Written By Kyle McQuillen and Craig Reavill, R&D Chemists at Treatt There are a number of ways to extract flavors from natural ingredients; the most practical for homebrewers are: Boiling: simmering with sugar to make a sugar syrup extract Hot…
Tuesday Beer Trivia: German-Style Wheat Beers
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