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BREWING RESOURCE DIRECTORY


HELPING YOU BREW BETTER BEER

BEER RECIPES

Directory of all grain beer recipes by style featuring hops that you can grow at home plus the latest hops & perennial classics from around the world.

FRESH HOP BEER 

A specific guide to making FRESH HOP BEER during the harvest season including several recipes.

HAZY IPA RECIPES


A specific guide to making a HAZY IPA & Pale Ales including lots of recipes and techniques.


WATER CHEMISTRY GUIDE


Water is between 90% & 97.5% of every beer made. Learn how to improve your beer by using a few simple techniques.


MALT SUBSTITUTION CHART

Use this chart to substitute a malt from one maltster to another

YEAST SELECTION CHART

Use this chart to compare yeast from White Labs & Wyeast including probable original sources

HOW TO ADJUST SPECIFIC GRAVITY

If your beer misses your desired original gravity read about how and when to increase or decrease your OG

HOW TO MAKE A YEAST STARTER

A good way to wake up your yeast after storage and save money by making enough for several brews

SRM COLOUR CHART


Match the SRM number to a colour suitable for your intended beer style

MASH TECHNIQUES


A short guide to mashing techniques suited for different styles of beer

BREWING WITH SUGAR


Most fermentable sugars in wort come from malts. However, there are other sugars that can be used to good effect in making a beer


OTHER BREWING TOOLS


Brewing calculators, adjusting alpha from one batch of hops to another for consistant bittering and more


STEEP/WHIRLPOOL HOPS


Adding steeping hops after flame out when the temperature of the wort is decreasing can add hop oils that are lost during the boil


BREWING LEGENDS


People and places that have contributed to the improvement of beer & brewing


MASTER BREWERS


At the heart of the brewery business lies the time-honoured process of brewing great beer. The industry’s most skilled and experienced master brewers make a commitment to brewing excellence today and into the future. Guardians of our iconic beers and creators of some of the best new brews on the market.


USING HOP EXTRACTS


Hop extract is designed to be used during the boil. That's because the alpha acid extraction is the same for hop resin extract as it is for whole hops and pellets and the hop additions can still be staggered throughout the boiling process.



GUIDE TO DRY HOPS


The process of dry hopping refers to the addition of hops into your fermenter either during your fermentation period and/or after your primary fermentation period is nearing completion.


CRYO HOPS


Derived from the Greek word ‘kryos’, meaning frost, CRYO HOPS is a cryogenic hop-processing technology used to separate whole hop cones into two components - concentrated lupulin and bract.


DIP HOPPING


In 2012, Kirin, the Japanese brewing conglomerate, began talking about “dip hopping,” a technique that its brewers had developed that boosts pleasant hop aromas while suppressing or removing unpleasant off-flavors, like myrcene, and aromas that are derived from fermentation.


MAXIMISING MOUTHFEEL


Mouthfeel can be defined as the textural attributes of beer, those which produce a tactile sensation in the mouth. Fullness refers to the perceived weight and flow resistance of a beer while it is being consumed like density and viscosity.


GUIDE TO ENZYMES


The production of beer is critically dependent upon enzymes, whether endogenous enzymes native to raw materials, such as malted barley and yeast, or exogenous (added) enzymes of commercial origin.

GUIDE TO BREWING A COLD IPA


So what defines a Cold IPA?
Cold IPA is beer which has been brewed and conditioned at low temperature using a bottom fermenting yeast, pilsner malts with adjuncts and IPA hops. Use our guide to easily brew Cold IPA including 15 new recipes.

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