A while ago I had the pleasure of meeting Sean Besser Hank, a homebrewer here in the Minneapolis area. He allowed me to come into his home, showed me all of his awesome homebrewing stuff (and awards) and chatted with me for nearly two hours. It was a great time to learn how Sean got …
In all-grain brewing, mashing is the most customizable part of the brewing process. Whether you use a single mash infusion, a stepping mash or a decoction mash, the goal of mashing is the same in most cases, to get out the fermentable sugars and malt extract into your brew. If you use one method and …
Just this past February I mentioned that homebrew was still illegal in Mississippi and Alabama. Well I may have spoken too soon as Mississippi at long last has legalized homebrewing. Mississippi governor Phil Bryant signed Senate Bill 2183 into law March 19, and the bill will take effect July 1st of this year. Local homebrewers …
There are many benefits and drawbacks to multi rest mashing. Hopefully this article will help you understand a little about multi rest mashing and more importantly be able to do it if a recipe calls for it. In most all grain recipes you will only utilize a single mash temperature. This is because most American …
I’m going to talk about a more uncommon form of hop addition, first wort hopping or FWH as you might see it referenced as. There are some interesting things about this technique that make it very useful as a hop addition method. hopefully FWH can be a great addition you your brewing expertise. This is a relatively unknown topic …
To some this article is trivial because you already boil your wort. But there may be some things that you did not know about the boiling process. There are some small kits out there that actually do not require you to boil the wort. I highly recommend you don’t use these because of the huge …
When brewing an extract beer you will usually be adding some specialty grains to the batch. These grains are used to add in specialty flavors like chocolate, rye and honey into your base beer. But they are also made for the extract brewer because Crystal malt only needs a short steeping time to extract the …
When I first started out brewing I didn’t know a Brew kettle from a fermentation bucket. So I began like most do with an extract beer kit. The beers were turning out good and the instructions in the kit were very helpful in brewing my first beers. But the kits never really seemed to hit the mark …
Final gravity is the measurement of how many solids are suspended in your beer after fermentation. Original gravity, the specific gravity before you ferment, is used with the final gravity to determine how much alcohol the beer has in it. These measurements are taken with a hydrometer. If you do not have a hydrometer, I …
