http://mybeermaking.com Beer Making Home Beer Brew - Free Tips and Resources Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:31:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Question by ZBR: What is the best home brew beer recipe? I have recently started making my own beer at home and I have yet to find a recipe that I really like. Do you have any suggestions for finding a good recipe, or website which sells them? I typically like lagers (but they are [...]


]]> http://mybeermaking.com/best-home-brew-beer-recipe-70/ Anyone who brews their own beer is sure to be asked the question every once in a while – “Do you really drink that stuff? It can’t be anything like as good as the real stuff, can it?”. This is a hard one to answer, as it is a matter of personal taste. Early on [...]


]]> http://mybeermaking.com/better-than-the-real-thing-43/ During the 1920s and some of the 1930s, the making and sale of alcoholic beverages was banned in the United States. It seems astonishing to think it now, but the law was in place for close to 13 years, and although it reduced the amount of public drunkenness it had the side-effect of increasing the [...]


]]> http://mybeermaking.com/a-throwback-to-prohibition-41/ Brewing beer is difficult, but worthwhile. The last decade or so has seen a massive rise in the different ways that beer is created and flavored, and in recent times we have seen a new arrival in the market – beer that is flavored with another alcoholic drink. Among the most well-known of these beers [...]


]]> http://mybeermaking.com/mixing-your-drinks-39/ Home brewing beer is a science. To get it right you need to be scientific in your approach, and it is often noted that science isn’t all about knowing everything. In fact, science by its very definition is about the fact that we do not, and cannot, know everything so we have to settle for [...]


]]> http://mybeermaking.com/a-brand-new-flavor-37/ For any home brewing buff, the moment of truth is always the tasting. You will not get a real idea for how good or otherwise your beer is when the brewing is complete. Even at this late stage, there is more that needs to happen before it is what it will be. You will put [...]


]]> http://mybeermaking.com/the-grand-tasting-35/ Brewing your own beer is not an easy process. From start to finish it can take weeks, and it is obvious that the longer it takes to do something, the more chance there is that that something can go wrong. Therefore you need to be practically parental in the way you bring along your home [...]


]]> http://mybeermaking.com/the-delicate-balance-33/ It is an interesting fact that Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by accident, and that Isaac Newton discovered gravity as a result of an apple falling from a tree and hitting him. In the same way – though admittedly on a smaller scale – some brewing mistakes and happy accidents can lead to a different and [...]


]]> http://mybeermaking.com/happy-accidents-31/ Four weeks ago I bottled a new batch of beer and set it out in the garden shed. I opened one today and it doesn’t taste right. What’s up? The chances are that it’s nothing you’ve done in the brewing process. Remember, brewing is a temperamental process and the most likely reason for your beer [...]


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