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So, it's your first time brewing beer and you have just found out that you need to cool the wort before adding the yeast, but how do you do it with no equipment.
Don't fret. An ice bath is a tried...
Whenever I am cooling down wort with a wort chiller I always wonder if I could do it faster. There are definitely several factors at play, but one of them is certainly the size, or length, of the...
If you've ever read John Palmer's book "how to brew" you'll instantly be confused as to when you should use liquid malt extract (LME). This is especially true if you are following a standard extract...
If you asked me to choose one beer style to drink for the rest of my life, it'd be hard but I think IPAs would be high up on the list.
As a new brewer, I attempted an IPA on my second batch and...
Whenever my friends ask me about brewing beer and if I like it I always say yes, except for the cleaning and sanitizing part!
Even though sanitizing your equipment is vital for any brewer, we'd...
As homebrewers we both know that having clean and sanitized brewing equipment is vital, but when do we sanitize and when do we not?
It's unnecessary to sanitize a brew kettle before using it to...