Understanding Home Brewing
Underanding how brewing works, the physical processes involved in brewing, the ingredients that go into beer, and how the brewing process transforms malts, hops, water, and yeast into a drinkable beverage will ultimately improve your ability to make award winning beer.
The articles in this section are dedicated to teaching you the inner workings of brewing. We will focus in on the home brewing ingredients, methods, tips, tricks, and home brewing equipment so you can improve your brews.
Understanding Home Brewing Articles
The Best Beer to Start Brewing
by Donavan Hall on April 17, 2007
For Christmas or for your last birthday your wife/parents/kids bought you a homebrew kit. Maybe you treated yourself to that collection of the odd assortment of equipment: a bucket, a kettle, a thermometer, a hydrometer, maybe a couple of carboys. You want to brew a beer.
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Choosing the Right Grains for Your Beer
by Dave Knott on April 3, 2007
With an embarrassingly large variety of grains available to the homebrewer these days, it can be difficult to make choices among them. There is so much to consider, for instance, a small amount of dark crystal malt will result in the same color as a larger amount of lighter crystal malt, but the flavor and aroma will not be the same. It is necessary to have some understanding of the malting process, and to develop familiarity with the different types of malts to make choices that will result in the beer ending up the way you want it to.