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LESSONS

“He was a wise man who invented beer.” - Plato

Lessons will be constructed over time. See links belows for published topics. If you would like to suggest a topic, please do not hesitate to contact me.

 

Foundations

 

Thinking About Brewing? (published 12/27/2016)

The Main Ingredients of Beer (published 12/27/2016)

The Two Types of Beer

Brewing Setups

Glossary

Finding and Reading a Recipe

Creating or Modifying a Recipe

Sanitization

Gasses Used in Homebrewing

Gravity

ABV

IBU

SRM

 

Brewing Day Methods

 

Brewing Temperatures

Pre-Hopped Extract

> 5 Gallon No-Boil Technique

Unhopped Extract

Extract with Specialty Grains

Partial Grain

All-Grain

> Making a 1-Gallon All-Grain Batch (published 2/19/2016) - PDF Version

> 5 Gallon All-Grain Technique

Chilling Techniques

 

Fermentation Methods

 

Fermentation Temperatures

Swamp Cooler

Refrigeration Fermentation Chamber

 

Ingredients

 

Water: Brewing Water Chemistry

Extracts: Use of Extracts

Hops: Use of Hops

Yeast: Use of Yeast: Dry or Liquid?

Yeast: Preparing Yeast for Fermentation

Yeast: Yeast Harvesting

Ingredient Storage

 

Packaging and Serving

 

Moving Liquids

Bottling

Kegging

Bottling from Kegs

Serving Basics

Serving the Masses (published 9/3/2016)

 

Cleaning Beer Equipment

 

Cleaning Brewing Equipment

Cleaning Bottles

Cleaning Kegs

Cleaning Jockeybox

 

Evaluating Beer

 

Beer Styles

Off-Flavors

Etiquette

Certifications

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