by DJ Spiess | Apr 16, 2009 | Brewing beer
There are several ways to make beer, each with their own list of equipment requirements. You’ll need less equipment if you’re making an extract beer than you would if you were making an all-grain beer. But what is the minimum you will need? The goal here...
by DJ Spiess | Mar 26, 2009 | Brewing beer
The Coopers home brew kit Coopers is a home brew kit company in Australia, but you can find their kits pretty much anywhere. MakeBeer.Net has all the Coopers kits available online too. This isn’t a extract brew kit in the traditional sense. This kit...
by DJ Spiess | Feb 6, 2009 | Brewing beer
There are several choices for reducing costs with your yeast. You can reuse the yeast cake, harvest your yeast, create multiple starters from a single liquid yeast pack, or use dry yeast. Each of these choices can save you money, but there are also trade-offs. Here...
by DJ Spiess | Jan 7, 2009 | Brewing beer
Nitrogen in the beer (beer gas) The main reason the above beers taste creamy is how they are carbonated. Instead of using regular CO2, these beers use nitrogen for “carbonation” (carbonation isn’t really the right word since you’re adding mostly nitrogen, not CO2). ...
by DJ Spiess | Dec 16, 2008 | Brewing beer
I remember travelling to England for the first time. I landed in Gatwick about 7 am local time. Completely jetlagged, I barely knew where I was, but to “adjust” to the European time zone I needed to stay awake for the rest of the day. How do I stay up? I headed...
by DJ Spiess | Dec 11, 2008 | Brewing beer
Your favorite bottle of Belgian brew has gone through quite a bit to get to your hands. The beer was produced, bottle conditioned, sent over seas, stuck in a warehouse, put onto a truck, a stuck on a store shelf (for who knows how long) until you purchased it. The...
