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.
Here I am, typing this post admitting to the internet that I messed up my session New England IPA. I’m also here, typing this post to let you know that despite the errors I made I managed to crank out a pretty decent beer. There are a couple of bold things I did while making…
I don’t know what it is…maybe it’s just that they are the perfect beer for the summer. Perhaps it’s the fact that it when brewing one it requires a lot of restraint, or may it’s just because they’re real cheap to make…I love making (and drinking) cream ales. At their core, cream ales are an…
I’ve been drinking craft beers for a long time now, trying over 700 of them. It’s funny that I don’t see a ton of talk about cream ales in the craft beer circle. And hardly any a blip about it on the homebrew scene. But, as I’ve wrote about before cream ales can be so…
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…
tl;dr You can pitch yeast the next day, just be sure of your sanitation. You can make two different beers from the same wort A number of weeks ago I had a pint of Hop Sun, Southern Tier’s hopped wheat ale. (Full disclosure: I’m, a ST fan boy). This pint inspired me to create a…
A number of weeks ago I purchased a flexible sight glass from Brewhardware.com and it was finally warm enough for me to do the installation. Below shows the method I used to install it on my second keggle. I apologize for the wind in the background, I just wanted to get this thing installed so…