
Building Your Homebrew Shop Community
Bitter and Esters co-founder John LaPolla shares advice on building and supporting your local homebrewing community.
Peruse pairings, learn how to make beer, cider, mead, kombucha, and other alternative fermentations, get DIY tutorials, and much more in our archives.
Bitter and Esters co-founder John LaPolla shares advice on building and supporting your local homebrewing community.
Making apple cider vinegar is surprisingly easy and very similar to brewing kombucha or cider!
Batch Sparge at 145° F for 75 minutes. Boil for 60 minutes. Add Whirlflock at 10 minutes. Cool to 60° F and add yeast and oxygen. Crash when fermentation is complete and try to lager for a couple of…
Mash at 151°F for 60 minutes at 5.3 pH. Heat to 170°F to mashout via HERMS, then fly sparge to collect 8.75 gallons of wort. Boil at low intensity for 90 minutes then chill to 70°F with ground water. …
Added 3.5 grams each of Calcium Chloride and Gypsum to 12 gallons of RO water. Single infusion mash at 148° F for 60 mins. Lauter then boil for 90 minutes. Chill to 45° F and pitch yeast starter. Allow…
Single Infusion mash @ 154° F for 60 m. Add Midnight Wheat with 10 minutes remaining for color adjustment with scant roast impression. Calculate mash pH with base malts only. Target Mash pH- 5.3. BIAB, full volume mash technique.…
For the sparge water, I used about a 50/50 mix of RO water with my filtered water. Single infusion mash at 154° F. Pull first 2 gallons of wort into small kettle and boil down over 2 hours to…
Water Treatment: 8.50 gal RO Water Water 3.03 g Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate) (Mash) 2.33 g Epsom Salt (MgSO4) (Mash) 1.86 g Calcium Chloride (Mash) Temperature Mash, 5 Step, Medium Body 1 - Acid Rest: Add 33.56 qt of…
Mash unmalted wheat at 135-140° F for 30-45 min then add the remaining malt for a two step mash with the first one at 142° F for 30 minutes and 156° F for 30 minutes. Target 5.4 for pH. Lauter…
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