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Below is an aggregate of blog posts in the homebrewing community. It is updated regularly during the day. These blogs are a great place to learn about homebrewing and most have recipes of their own. If you write a blog about homebrewing and would like for it to be included please let us know.

Advantages of Brewing Small Batches – GIVEAWAY!

This week, I was fortunate enough to strike up a conversation with Will Draper, the founder of Small Batch Homebrew, a new online store that specializes in providing equipment and ingredients for brewing small batches of homebrew.  Yet another great beer business born right here in NC! I thought that ...
Posted May 21st, 2012 View original post on NC Home Brewing .

Interview with a Brewery Owner: Port City Brewing

Several years ago, Bill Butcher recognized that there was a growing thirst for high quality beer in the DC area.  Further, upon assessing the landscape at the time he realized there was little in the way of local competition.  The result was the birth of Port City Brewing in Alexandria ...
Posted May 21st, 2012 View original post on Holz Brew .

Pioneer Series-Citra, Tasting Update

Its been a month since I brewed my 1st all Brett beer.  I used brettanomyces claussenii for the primary fermentation.  The original post is here.  Today I took a gravity reading and I was still at 1.030.  I am a little concerned that it is not lower 4 weeks ...
Posted May 20th, 2012 View original post on Lewy Brewing Co. .

Cooking with homebrew

On Wednesday I was craving brats. I rarely make brats since the kids don't really eat them. I was off work and only had the youngest child with me so I decided I would make myself some brats and something else for the child. I also decided that soaking ...
Posted May 20th, 2012 View original post on Scott's Nanobrewery .

Munich SMaSH Brewlog

Saturday night on may 12th I brewed up my Munich Smash recipe.   My wife had the weekend away so I seized the opportunity to brew on a Saturday night.  Of course, when an opportunity to brew presents itself on short notice you tend to forget things.  I violated the true ...
Posted May 17th, 2012 View original post on Brew Dudes .

First Gold Hops

I conducted some research into a hop variety that I have not used yet in my homebrewing sessions but this one caught my eye since it was an English variety. I present this information as our profile of First Gold Hops. Bred by Wye College in Kent, they are the ...
Posted May 17th, 2012 View original post on Brew Dudes .

Citra Calvados Tripel Tasting

I know I’ve said it before, but it is a tragedy that more breweries don’t dry hop their sour beers. It doesn’t take much imagination to understand the appeal of combining bright fruity or citrusy hop aromatics with the flavor of a tart pale or red beer ...
Posted May 17th, 2012 View original post on The Mad Fermentationist .

What Makes The Perfect Home Brew Shop?

I’ve been to plenty of home brew shops all around the Country and I can say for sure that some are definitely better than others. I have walked into some thinking the place was about to shut down because there was so little on the shelves, others I have ...
Posted May 16th, 2012 View original post on Mash.Sparge.Boil .

Sour Barrel Ale Project: Update 1

Transferring the beer to the barrel
Two weeks after the initial brewday for the Sour Barrel Ale Project, I headed back over to Shawn's house to help him transfer 65 plus gallons of beer into the used wine barrel.  50 gallons came from the beast of a fermenter we ...
Posted May 16th, 2012 View original post on SNB Brewing .

BeerSmith 2.1 and BeerSmithRecipes.com Now Available

Today we released BeerSmith 2.1 and it is now available for download from our main site.  Simultaneously we publicly launched the new BeerSmithRecipes.com recipe sharing site and cloud service. BeerSmith 2.1 includes a new recipe timer (open any recipe and click on the timer tab) which shows ...
Posted May 15th, 2012 View original post on Beer Smith Blog .