The All-in-One Personal Brewery

The All-in-One Personal Brewery

Invented by New Zealanders Ian Williams and Anders Warn, the WilliamsWarn Personal Brewery makes homebrewing very simple. You simply add ingredients, boil, add yeast and wait for beer. How is this system different? Everything happens in one machine. The WilliamsWarn...
Building a recirculating wort chiller

Building a recirculating wort chiller

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...
How many BTUs does my burner need?

How many BTUs does my burner need?

The other day I made beer with my new 25 gallon pot and I confirmed what I suspected:  A 55,000 BTU burner cannot boil 15 gallons of wort in any reasonable amount of time.  My brewing day was cold and windy, so I never got the wort above 200°F (93°C).  The question I...