by DJ Spiess | Oct 30, 2010 | Brewing beer, Featured
A friend of mine was planning a big celebration for her daughter’s one year birthday and she wanted me to make the beer for the party. If you’ve been to a birthday party for a one year old, you’ll understand why you need the beer. Of course I said yes because I like...
by DJ Spiess | May 3, 2010 | Brewing beer, Featured
Oak is commonly used in winemaking, but lately there is interest in putting the oak in beer. Oak can give your beer different flavors from vanilla to whiskey depending on the type of oak used. Types of oak for your beer There are many different types of oak. Oak...
by DJ Spiess | Apr 6, 2010 | Equipment, Featured
I decided I needed to find a better way to chill my beer, so I altered my immersion chiller to recirculate the water. The problem For wort chilling, I have always used a counter-flow wort chiller. It worked well and usually reduced the temperature from boiling to...
by DJ Spiess | Nov 5, 2009 | Brewing beer
I posted this earlier on twitter and it was very popular. This is a very impressive hop chart. It looks like it was done by a designer named Zeke Shore. You can see more about him on his web page, after you’re done drooling over the pretty hop chart. Enjoy!...
by DJ Spiess | Oct 7, 2009 | Homebrewing
Is my cider fermenting? Many beer homebrewers panic when first making cider. When you make beer, you see lots of activity in glass carboys. Cider doesn’t do this. Cider does not have the active fermentation you see in beer. If your fermenter isn’t...
by DJ Spiess | Sep 1, 2009 | Brewing beer
How to make a Key Lime Wit beer If you’re paying attention at all to the beer world you’ve probably heard the lawsuit InBev and Labatts has brought against Ontario-based Brick Brewing for copyright infringement. Here’s how Brick Brewing has...
