Tips For Hitting Target Gravity
Hitting your target original gravity (OG) is important to brewers for many reasons – when you plan a recipe your OG will influence the balance of your beer, affecting the total alcohol, the balance of malt character and the perceived bitterness (missing your target OG can throw off your BU:GU ration and completely change the […]
Choosing a Yeast Strain for Your Beer
We’ve quoted this before but it’s worth reiterating that ‘brewers make wort, yeast makes beer’. Choosing the right strain of yeast arguably makes the biggest difference in how your end beer turns out so we thought we’d talk you through how to make the right selection. The most obvious distinction to make in yeast […]
Reintroducing Oxygen During Fermentation
For those of you who read our mash a couple of weeks ago on the methods of aerating wort, you will know that there are very few stages in the brewing process where the introduction of oxygen is desirable and that fermentation in particular is a stage where the introduction of oxygen should be avoided. […]
A Guide to Cropping Yeast
Cropping yeast is something that is very common in commercial breweries because of a regular brewing pattern and the savings that can be made not having to pay for yeast every time you brew. This was also something JK was very familiar with in a commercial setting, whether that’s cropping from the bottom of a […]
Brewing for Clarity
One of the most frustrating things when buying beer can be pouring the beer (being careful to not disturb the sediment if there is some) and it coming out of the glass looking like mud, or even worse, buying a beer in the pub and it looks the same. We know that its currently en […]
