Priming is an important part of home brewing. Without it you won’t have much foam or aroma and your brew won’t look at lot like beer.
So here’s a guide to priming sugar including how to use just the right amount.
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Malt’s such an important part of brewing beer that it’s a good idea to know what it tastes like.
Here’s a simple way to develop your own malt flavour profiles and really understand how each malt influences your beer.
I don’t usually include news and reviews, but having got back from the International Craft Beer Festival in Buenos Aires I thought it was worth sharing the highlights here on the blog.
Water is a key element of brewing and, after John Palmer’s talk at the event, I’m now inspired to find out more about it.
Find out more about brewing water
Yeast starters are often mentioned by advanced home brewers as the one thing they wish they’d starting doing earlier. When I finally got round to trying I realised why.
Here I’ll show you how to start. It’s not as difficult as you may think.
If you want to add more texture and body to your beer, brewing with oats is a good option. Here I look at some of the issues, focusing on an example oatmeal stout brew day.
In an attempt to make my brewing more efficient, continuous and economical I’ve been investigating how to harvest yeast from bottles. Here I explain how to do it.
The first in a new series focusing on beer ingredients, in this article I give an introduction to the four main components of home brew: malt, hops, yeast and water.
Dry hopping is one of the many ways you can add punch to the flavour of your beer. It gives you hop aroma and flavour without bitterness.
Here I look at some of the ideas and techniques behind it, all illustrated with a recent brew.
