Pitching yeast is simply the terminology used by brewers for adding yeast to your wort or unfermented beer, mead, cider, wine, etc. In the case of beer, after you have brewed your wort and chilled it, you add the yeast to the fermenter before putting the lid on and placing it into your fermentation chamber … Read more
If you are doing research on cold brewing beer you may be confused by some of the information you are uncovering. This is because some people consider cold brewed beer as being a beverage that is part beer and part coffee. However, others like ourselves consider cold brewing beer to be an actual brewing technique … Read more
Learning how to force carbonate beer is a simple process: At its core force carbonating involves simply transferring your beer to a keg and carbonating it by infusing it with CO2 gas instead of the traditional method of transferring it to bottles, adding sugar, and letting the yeast create the CO2. Equipment Required to Force … Read more
When it comes to choosing a fermenter home brewers have a variety of options available to them, ranging from simple plastic buckets and glass carboys to a large selection of higher-end plastic fermenters to the more expensive stainless steel conical fermenters that are similar to what craft breweries use. One option that many brewers tend … Read more
We have all seen breweries advertise their beer using the terms hoppy, double hopped, dry-hopped, etc. So much so that the word hops has for the most part become synonymous with the craft beer world, but what are hops really, why are they used in the beer-making process and what are the different ways they … Read more