Recirculating Wort Chiller
Here’s my solution for cooling down wort in the summertime. It’s also a great idea if you’re into saving water.
In my reading about the Saison style of beer I discovered that farmhouses in Belgium and France would typically toss in left over ingredients from their harvests and put it into their beers. As a homebrewer the style can be fruitful because is very forgiving; from fermentation temperatures to percentage of ingredients. These items are…
I recently made a stout for Thanksgiving. I took inspiration from a BrewingTV episode when Chip took a chocolate stout and freeze distilled (jacked) it. While making this stout itself, I decided to make a 6 gallon batch rather than a 5 gallon batch with the intent of doing the same. On keg day, a mere…
One of the biggest things that homebrewers need to be conscious of is the temperature of fermentation. For me, during the summer that is unrealistic in my house. Our temps rise and fall. So I found a solution that was fairly cheap & certainly easy to make. A refrigerator fermentation chamber. Here’s a video I…
Every year I make a six pack that I hand out to my friends and coworkers. I’ve made them IPAs, pale ales, porters, stouts, and other typical beer styles. This year I wanted to mix things up. While doing some research on what to make for this year, I came across a recipe for graf….
Since I’m part Irish and a homebrewer I felt compelled as St. Patrick Day approached to make an Irish beer. In American there aren’t that many beer styles that scream “Ireland”. Aside from stouts and reds there really isn’t a whole lot out there. I wanted to brew something different. I took a page from…