At first glance, a Vienna Lager recipe may resemble that of an Oktoberfest, and although there are similarities between these beers including both being amber lagers from Germany; a Vienna Lager recipe will produce a significantly lighter and more sessionable beer with a lighter mouthfeel and color as well as a lower alcohol content or … Read more
In this article, we are going to look at 2-row vs 6-row barley. What are their differences, the pros and cons of each as well as providing you with a recipe to compare these grains and see for yourself what characteristics they provide to beer. The facts are when it comes to making beer, especially … Read more
Most people when they think of brewing with honey don’t actually think of honey beer but rather the infamous alcoholic beverage consumed by the vikings that many mistakenly call mead but was actually a drink called grog (similar but not the same). However, thanks to adventurous brewers the popularity of honey beer is on the … Read more
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
