by DJ Spiess | Nov 15, 2008 | Brewing beer
Alabama House Bill 9 (HB9) is the current incarnation of legalizing homebrewing for Alabama home brewers. Since Mississippi passed a law legalizing homebrewing in March of this year (goes into effect July 1st), Alabama is now the only state in the entire...
by DJ Spiess | Oct 7, 2008 | Brewing beer
NOTE: This product doesn’t seem to be available anymore. If you know where to find it, let me know! A month ago I noticed something new at my local homebrew shop. It’s called the Big and Easy bottle brew. The Big and Easy is a two liter “no brew”...
by DJ Spiess | Sep 29, 2008 | Brewing beer
Why use olive oil in your homebrew? Your yeast need oxygen for a happy and healthy fermentation. Yeast use oxygen during the lag phase to synthesize sterols and unsaturated fatty acids for its cell walls. If there is not enough oxygen, the yeast can not grow and die...
by DJ Spiess | Sep 10, 2008 | Brewing beer
Sugar will carbonate your beer If you bottle your homebrew, you know how sugar is used for carbonation. The reason we use sugar is to use something neutral in flavor. You don’t want to change the flavor of your beer at this point. Usually corn sugar, table sugar,...
by DJ Spiess | Jul 30, 2008 | Brewing beer
There are several ways your beer can go wrong. When you have a bad beer you can cry in it, or you can learn from it. In the next few articles, we’ll look at what bad flavors your beer can get and what causes the particular off-flavor. My beer tastes like green...
by DJ Spiess | Jul 23, 2008 | Brewing beer
Shorten your brew day with overnight mashing You’ll often hear all-grain brewing takes around four hours minimum, but I’ve seen bad brew days extend as much as 7 hours (it was cold, and many, many things went wrong). I’ve found breaking the brew day into two days...
