Water chemistry is perhaps the most important component that will take a good beer to a great one. However, it’s very common for brewers to eschew treating their water aside from perhaps removing chlorine or chloramines. Lots of the material regarding water makes it seem really complicated or calls for building everything from scratch via […]
What is the experiment? To determine what flavour impacts yeast has on a final product under these 4 conditions: When fresh yeast and priming solution is used post filtration When fresh yeast and priming solution is used pre-filtration When yeast in suspension and priming solution is used pre-filtration When product is force carbonated via brite […]
2016 was a big year for us, since it marked my exit from the software industry and into brewing. I started attending the Niagara College brewing program in January and began to focus on levelling up my brewing by practicing a lot at home. V and I also spent a lot of time expanding our […]
In one of our courses this semester, my classmates and I had to develop cocktails as an assignment. These cocktails only had one requirement — they needed to incorporate beer into the recipe somehow. During the presentations I was extremely impressed with all the drinks that they had developed and wanted to share a couple of […]
Sometimes we want to step up our game and push our homebrews a little further in terms of appearance. We’ve gone ahead and taken care (and time!) to get all the labels off tons of bottles so at least our beers look a bit cleaner on first glance. Though, to take it further you want […]
Something that often comes up is needing to make adjustments and sometimes it’s just easier to pull out a calculator and do the math yourself. I have a clipboard that my brewday sheet goes on, and I’ll be sticking this onto it so whenever I need to make an adjustment to kettle volumes or figure […]
One of the styles of beer that I always reach for is the Bavarian Hefeweizen. In Ontario, it’s a bit of a hit or miss product; the ones that win me over often have more of an emphasis on bananas instead of cloves. A fellow home brewer once told me that the only way they […]
I’m relatively new to the beer competition scene and have only helped out at a couple. It’s mostly been to help with sorting or getting beers out to people when I’m stewarding. Until I judged for the BecauseBeer homebrew competition I was under the impression that only BJCP judges (or people with a BJCP ID) can actually […]
I’m a student in the Niagara College Brewing Program, and one caveat with the course is there’s no dedicated time for 4 months of continuous on the job training. This was changed a year or two ago, so the program went from being two years long to sixteen straight months (with two week breaks in […]
At the end of February I started up an experimental batch of stout where I’d be trying to get some salted chocolate flavours. Overall I’d say I missed that goal, but I’m still somewhat happy with the result and I learned quite a bit into how salt will have an effect on the flavour profile […]
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