Home Brewing Tips
There’s myriad information out there that we, as brewers, tend to take as fact simply because it has always been fact. Things like “hot-side ...
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When I first started looking into using wood in my homebrew, my first question was “what sort of toast should I be using?” At the time I wasn’t aware there ...
My typical brew day goes something like this: Wake up fairly early, grind coffee with my manual burr grinder, and get that going. Since I’ve printed ...
Toasts and Chars After the initial release of the Wood Primer, my work on it fell behind and stopped altogether while I focused on articles ...
I imagine most people, like myself, see the term “oak-aged” and automatically assume the term is synonymous with “barrel-aged”. When I first started ...
I don’t have a mind for numbers. I love the idea of math and theoretical puzzles and problem solving, but I just can’t wrap my head around the numbers. If ...
I love Russian Imperial Stouts. I’m not a beer collector or trader, but I’ll go out of my way for a good RIS. I horde Yeti and Expedition. My first ...
An Imperial Stout is, more often than not, defined by its grain bill. It isn’t a “hoppy” beer (though I have had some solid hoppy-RIS, like Close Encounters ...
In the last part of this series, I explicitly stated my opinion that there is no place for a big hop presence in an Imperial Stout, citing ...
You may remember me talking about a friend of mine in the Czech Republic who is ranting and raving about their Pilsners, and that I took said ...
When I first started brewing I had no palate whatsoever. I couldn’t taste the difference between any sort of IPA (I still have trouble with this), all ...
I have a friend named Evan who is currently teaching English in the Czech Republic. I don’t have too many opportunities to talk to him, but in one of our ...