Nicole Brooks

Are you ready to move past extract brewing, but don’t have the equipment or time to jump into all-grain brewing? Partial mashing is an excellent way to split the difference. Your recipes will be more flexible with the variety of malts you can use. Partial mashing also introduces you to fundamental brewing techniques for all-grain … Read more

Beer ingredients aren’t complicated: if you have four ingredients, you can brew a beer. Of course, diving deeper into each ingredient reveals intricacies and details. You could spend years researching each ingredient. The base ingredients for beer are water, grain, hops, and yeast. Brewers often add adjuncts for flavor, or compounds to clear the beer … Read more

The most common and cheapest way to carbonate your beer is in the bottle. Instead of buying CO2, you let your yeast do all the work, and in the end you have a cold brew to drink! To make this dream a reality, you need to learn how to use priming sugar to carbonate your … Read more

Are you ready to sparge your homebrew in the same way as a professional brewer? With a few extra pieces of equipment, you can see your brewing efficiency shoot through the roof. Fly sparging is the most efficient way to rinse the grain bed after the mash, releasing all the extracted sugar. It requires some … Read more

So, you’ve been doing brew in a bag for a while and you’re ready to take it to the next level. Or maybe you’re jumping into homebrewing with both feet and need to do a bit of research on the best methods. Batch sparging is a way of rinsing the grain bed with water to … Read more