May 29, 2018 | How-To & Education
How Do Hops Work? Bittering Hops One of the main uses of hops is for bittering. Bittering is used in beer to balance the sweetness of the malt. It also has preservative characteristics. Hops are the flower cones of a climbing bine related to the cannabis family. The...
May 10, 2018 | How-To & Education
Why are brown beer bottles brown? The easy answer is to protect beer from light. Only recently (in 2001) did we figure out how light causes the fault called light struck or skunked beer. Chemists at the University of North Carolina and Ghent University in Belgium...
May 8, 2018 | How-To & Education
Fermentation is the most important phase of the home brewing process. Fermentation is all about providing the yeast with the best conditions possible to allow it to convert the sugars contained within the Wort into alcohol, carbon dioxide and desirable flavours and...
Apr 27, 2018 | How-To & Education
Kegging and Carbonating Kegging and Carbonating, as well as Line balancing all really affect the quality of your craft homebrew. Understanding how to properly keg, carbonate and pour your beer will help give you reliable results every time. Often the limited,...
Apr 19, 2018 | How-To & Education
Cleanliness is one of the most important aspects for all food preparations; this is even truer for Brewing. In Brewing we provide good growing conditions for yeast which are also good conditions for other microorganisms, especially wild yeasts and bacteria. Cleaning...
Apr 19, 2018 | How-To & Education
The Difference Between Lager & Ale The common thing to all alcoholic beverages is fermentation. For beer this involves the conversion of sugars contained in malted barley into ethanol (the alcohol we drink) by a yeast called Saccharomyces Cerevisiae. This plays a...
