Starch Gelatinisation – A Home Brewers Guide
Starch gelatinisation, what is it and is it important to us as home brewers? During mashing one of our main aims as home brewers is to convert the starch …
Home Brewing with Green Hops
At this time of year the brewers mind starts to mull over the likely impact of the hop harvest. With the cones mature on the bine and harvest in …
Home Brewers Guide to Beer Foam
A thick head of beer foam is one of those qualities of beer that divides people – you either love or loath it. For me, I have to admit …
British Hops – Choose them for Your Home Brew
The hop harvest is fast approaching and so my thoughts are turning, with a great sense of anticipation, to brewing with the new seasons hop crop and in particular …
Why is Malt so Important?
In an earlier article we discussed what is malt and how it is important in the brewing of beer, now we will look in a bit more detail at what …
Home Brewers Guide to Hop Aroma
Here at HomeBrew Techniques we are unashamed lovers of the hop. To us the humble hop contributes more to beer than the humble little cone suggests. Take for example …
What do you do With a Stuck Fermentation
What do you do when you get a stuck fermentation? For some the process of fermentation is a bit like the dark arts, what really goes on in that …
Wort Aeration or Olive Oil
Wort aeration or olive oil? It is an interesting and, for some, wacky concept but using olive oil instead of wort aeration has been utilised by both professional and …
What is the Mashing Strike Temperature
It is easily done, you mash in expecting to hit your desired mashing temperature and when you measure the actual temperature of your mash it is either too cold …
A Fishy Tale – Isinglass Finings in Brewing
Isinglass finings you wouldn’t think that it would be the subject of heated political argument. However, to label or not to label, that was the difficult decision facing the …