How to Add Fruit Flavor to Beer
It used to be that fruit was only found in a few specific styles of beer, such as a belgian lambic. But thanks to the tinkering nature of craft brewers and homebrewers, it’s become increasingly popular over the years. Nobody ever heard of a blueberry stout or a raspberry wheat until the mid ‘90’s, but…
Fermentis SafBrew™ BR-8
Bring “funky notes” to your beer with SafBrew™ BR-8, the first dry Brett for your bottle and/or cask conditioning! About the genus Brettanomyces and the new SafBrew™ BR-8 The wild yeast Brettanomyces has made a comeback in the global beer industry in recent years. In response to its newfound popularity, Fermentis is offering the first…
Beer Style Guide – Sour Beers
Sour beers are one of the most unusual beer styles, but are naturally intriguing for the homebrewer. They range from a gentle sour tinge that helps provide complexity to ragingly mouth-puckering sourness. The organisms that create sour flavors usually contribute other aromas and flavors that are unattainable with normal yeast, such as the “barnyard” or…
SafAle™ WB-06: Give the character you want to your wheat beer styles
Homebrewing and brewing are a matter of choice. A choice of ingredients — hops, yeast, malt, and water — if we stick to the classics. You also have a choice of process: mashing regime, fly or batch sparging, boiling duration, hopping regime, yeast pitching rate, fermentation temperature, etc. These choices are what makes our hobby…
What is a Cold IPA and How Do You Homebrew One?
Chip Walton | NB Digital Producer A Cold Prediction Only a quarter of the way through the year and 2022 already seems like it will go down as the Year of Cold IPA. Haven’t seen or tasted one yet? You likely will soon enough. Here in Minnesota, more than a dozen breweries have had one…
Brew an Authentic Floor-Malted Porter (aka a Floorter)
Mystery grist was carefully swept off the grain room floor. Hop dust was collected from the warehouse floor as well (we’re eco-friendly like that). All to debunk a centuries-old myth and correctly brew a beer we’ve been brewing wrong for hundreds of years. Join us as we discover the chocolate, roasty, somehow dust-free flavors of…