Stan Hieronymus Interview
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Mr. Stan Hieronymus was gracious enough to answer a few questions in an email interview recently. Stan is “always ready to write about what’s …
Brew Science
Dispensing Your Beer
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Dispensing your beer with a properly balanced draft system is a delight. By “properly balanced” I mean dispensing your beer without getting a glass full …
Mash Alkalinity, Residual Alkalinity and Mash pH
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Your mash alkalinity is a measurement of the mash’s ability to buffer, or resist, attempts to lower its pH. It does this with the bicarbonate ions …
Carbonate Reduction of Your Brewing Water
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Carbonate reduction may be performed in a couple of ways. Carbonate levels can be lowered to the 50-150 ppm range by two methods, boiling …
The Boil in the Brewing Process
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One of the most neglected procedures in homebewing is the boil. After all, it’s only boiling the wort, right? Well, yes and no. Believe it …
Cereal Mash-brewing with adjuncts
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Cereal Mash Techniques Why learn how to do a cereal mash? Because when you brew American lagers or other beers requiring large amounts of adjuncts, …
Yeast Viability Testing
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Yeast Viability and vitality are related, but they are not the same. Yeast batches can be found with high levels of dead cells that still show …
No-Chill Brewing Examined
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The No-Chill brewing method was developed in Australia where the availability of water to chill to chill the wort down to fermentation temperature can be …
Do Beer Calories Cause “Beer Belly”?
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Beer calories are infamous for their effects on your belly. But, studies have shown that drinking beer is not the cause of a “beer …
Degrees Plato to Specific Gravity Conversion
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The purpose of this article is to provide the basics of how to convert degrees Plato to specific gravity. Why would you want to? …