PID Controlled RIMS System
Read about why you might want to consider using a RIMS system to help you improve or bring consistency to your homebrew beer. Let’s face it we all love a project and information is power. Click to read on…
Category: technicaltechnical brewing articles
technical brewing articles
Making A Counter Flow Chiller (CFC) to Help Rapidly Cool Wort
This project will handle creating a homemade CFC in as few steps as possible. You can learn from any mistakes here and create your own, better CFC or decide that an immersion chiller or plate chiller – think Blichmann Therminator™ (bright light in the sky and loud orchestral “ahhhhhh” music).
Culturing Yeast and Using Slants
A paper by Ashley Carr…. I have obtained this information from various sources so it is a distillation of ideas and techniques I have tried and tested and achieved remarkably successful outcomes from.
Maximising Aroma from Hops
This paper from Ashley Carr is principally about maximising hop aroma but it should be understood from the start that it is not possible to do this without some impact on flavour and bitterness too…
An Introduction to Water Treatment
Whenever we talk about ingredients for our recipes we inevitably talk about Malt, Hops and Yeast. All very important of course but with over 94 % of the final Beer being water…….
Oxygen Wort Aeration
In recent times I have become concerned that perhaps I am not giving my yeast enough of the love and care that they require to efficiently ferment a wort. I grow starters of decent size when working with liquid yeast but occasional long extended drawn-out fermentations, and the increased frequency of me brewing high gravity beers have led me to look at how I can give my yeast a better environment in which to do their thing.