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Have you ever been challenged to make a beer featuring a secret ingredient? Let me introduce my local homebrew club’s event: Iron Kettle.What is Iron Kettle?Iron Kettle...
DoppelbockWhat is Doppelbock? According to the BJCP guidelines (2021), it is “a strong, rich, and very malty German lager that can have both pale and dark variants. The darker...
What is a Munich Helles?Helles is the German word for “bright” or “pale” and Munich Helles is just that: a light, mild, drinkable beer that is golden straw...
Not homebrew related, but just a quick update.We recently switched website hosting providers. And even with daily backups, some of our posts and comments disappeared on both the...
What is a Diacetyl TestCompounds known as vicinal diketones, or VDKs, are aromatic compounds that are byproducts of fermentation. The most well-known VDK is diacetyl, which presents...
What is Forced Fermentation?How do you know when fermentation is complete?One way is to measure the specific gravity, SG, several days in a row to see if there is a change. If...
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