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I was invited to the Home Brew Happy Hour to share my ideas/techniques/methods about water and pH in beer. It has been my opinion that water chemistry is often been made overly complicated and what really matters is the finish pH and acid content of beer that really makes a beer "pop". Lorena...

A friend of mine made this super cool label. Now I need to market this $h1+ and get rich!

Home Brew Happy Hour had me on their latest podcast. If your interested, give a listen. I cannot be held responsible if you get bored! https://homebrewhappyhour.libsyn.com/brewing-award-winning-beer-at-the-highest-level-an-interview-with-the-ahas-2025-homebrewer-of-the-year-wayne-doucette

For those of you who are interested, I will be on an AHA live podcast at the end of the month. Not sure what it's going to cover, but I do know they want to cover the beer that won, Lynn's Lager. Hopefully, I won't make a fool of myself! I posted a link to the up coming podcast and the recipe...

Well, I'm not sure how I pulled it off, but I won Home Brewer of the Year last night at the National Homebrew Comp. I won it with an American Lager and it's the same beer that won a second in 2021. Don was kind enough to make a really cool tap handle for that one. It won another second in 2022...

I got the idea a while back about brewing a IPL, but it seemed kind of of a gimmick the more I thought about it. The idea of a super clean IPA was appealing, but it could also be done with an ale yeast. So I forgot about. Later, after brewing my favorite beer, a German Pils, I had the idea of...

Over the years getting liquid yeast shipped to me was often hit or miss. Shipping in the winter, you risk freezing. I found yeast in my mailbox at -10F (-23C) frozen solid. I have had yeast shipped in the summer months, only to find it was DOA. I have stored yeast, but it doesn't always last...

I don't know if many people have heard about this new (old actually) yeast from Norway. It's a farm house yeast that loves heat. A pro brewer friend of mine called me and said he used Hornindal Kveik yeast for the first time, he said it was everything it was said to be. He pitched at 90F and it...

Has anyone brewed a beer with Idaho 7? I got four/ 4 ounces packages of Idaho 7 "hop hash" (1 pound total) and was wondering what was the flavor profile like. Hop hash is the resin left over from the pellet making process, similar to lupilin, but more like a tar, Weird, but awesome. I have made...

This is a paper I wrote up a couple of years ago for my local homebrew club on fermentation. I made a couple of changes since then and I'm posting it for 2 reasons. I would like people to go over it and if you find a grammar or technical error in it, please let me know, I would be greatly...

A friend of mine gave 4 ounces of Yakama Hop hash, no AA/BA information or variety info. My idea was to use it in a 170F whirlpool. From what I found, it's a resin type by-product which are the leftovers from pelletizing the hops. AA's are @ 25-40%. It's advantage is that it's supposed to have...