Extract

Extract Brewing in the Winter

Beer Kit
Tired of struggling with all-grain brewing during the cold winter months in my garage, I decided to go back to extract brewing indoors to make my life easier during brew day. English Dark Mild Ale Recipe (Extract w/Grains): Spreadsheet: https://beernbbqbylarry.com/BNBFiles/English_Dark_Mild_Ale-20211228.xlsx PDF: https://beernbbqbylarry.com/BNBFiles/English_Dark_Mild_Ale-20211228.pdf Support my work via the following affiliate links: (I get small commission from
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Spices and Flavor Extracts in Beer Brewing

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This week I take a look at the best way to incorporate spices and flavor extracts into your beer brewing process. Examples of Spices, Herbs and Flavor Extracts Beer was not traditionally made with hops. In fact, the use of hops in beer dates back only about 500 years, while beer itself was introduced at […]
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Hop Forms and New Hop Products

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This week I take a look at some of the new hop products and forms of hops available to professional and home brewers. We’re fortunate to live in an era of hop forward beers, and brewers have a wide variety of products available to create great beers. Dried Hop Forms The vast majority of hops […]
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The Ultimate BeerSmith Equipment Profile Guide

Equipment
Some of the most frequent questions I receive on BeerSmith software are about how to properly set up and dial in your equipment profile. This is an important first step as the equipment you are using drives all of the critical recipe estimates like color, bitterness and original gravity. I’ve composed many articles and videos […]
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Hop Utilization Models for Beer Brewing Compared

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This week I take a look at the three major hop utilization models: Tinseth, Garetz, and Rager used to calculate bitterness in beer brewing. Bitterness Levels and IBUs The bitterness of a beer contributed by hops in the boil is typically estimated using one of three major hop utilization equations. All three attempt to estimate […]
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Hop Cone Composition and Beer Brewing

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This week I take a look at the hop cone and how its composition affects flavors when brewing beer. Hop Cone Composition If we look at the hop cone image (upper right, Source: Stan Hieronymus) we can see the various parts of the hop cone. The bulk of the compounds we are interested in are […]
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Creating Custom Reports in BeerSmith Desktop

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This week I take a look at how you can create custom reports in the BeerSmith desktop program. This feature is currently only available on the desktop version of BeerSmith. The process described below applies to BeerSmith 3. BeerSmith 2 had a slightly different setup where you need to copy your template to the Documents/Reports […]
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