Here is to good beer, merriment and most of all a wonderful Christmas time. Whatever you are drinking over the Christmas period I know it’ll be good. Thanks for reading this year, expect bigger and better things next year we …
About a month ago the nearest home brew shop to my house shut. This particular home brew shop was about 40 minutes drive away so it wasn’t exactly local but it was close enough to go to to get ingredients …
Recently I setup a gallery here on Mash.Sparge.Boil so readers can submit photos, text and a link regarding their latest home brew creations. For some reason that got lost when the site was redesigned but now the gallery has now …
I present to you a challenge, how well do you know your grains? Guess the Grain Bill Below I have added a picture of the grain bill of a recent beer I made and the challenge I put forward to …
As a home brewer you’ll know what a pain in the neck cleaning and getting rid of spent grain can be. I’ve lost count of the number of times I have taken apart the manifold in my mash tun to …
I’ve posted a very similar graphic on Mash.Sparge.Boil what seems like an age ago here. I cannot however resist a good home brew related chart, especially when there is as much detail on it as this one. Plus it’s set …
Just stumbled across this cool video of the fermentation of Sierra Nevada’s Bigfoot Barleywine. As you can see for yourself this fermentation is pretty crazy and just shows you how active yeast get when fermenting a beer. It’s also pretty …
Sometimes you just can’t find the hops you need, it’s never ideal but there are some instances when substituting the hops in a recipe is the only way you can get the brew done. Hop Substitutions In the table below …
In this picture post I want to share a photo I took recently at a commercial brewery of hot wort being transferred into a hopback. The use of the hopback in a commercial brewery is to impart hop aroma, from …
"That's a beer tap! U Medvidku in Prague. http://t.co/IUBFk6WKWs"
Wed, May 22, 2013