Posts tagged homebrewing
I Tried It: Calculating My Malt Bill By Hand
I Tried It: Calculating My Malt Bill By Hand

Like most people, I rarely rely on my own knowledge to recall anything and I almost exclusively rely on various software, apps, and algorithms to determine how I move through my daily life. This reliance naturally extends to my homebrewing.

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Jen Blairhomebrewing, homebrew, Ray Daniels, Designing Great Beers, BeerSmith, Bru'n Water, how to use Bru'n Water, TI-86, Xennial, BJCP Guidelines, how to calculate malt bill, How to Brew, John Palmer, target gravity, Double IPA, IPA, American IPA, Double IPA recipeComment
I Tried It: Extract Brewing
I Tried It: Extract Brewing

The very best way to think of the difference between extract brewing and all grain brewing is to think of the difference between using a cake mix and baking a cake from scratch.

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Jen Blairhomebrew, homebrewing, Charlotte Beer Babes, NoDa Brewing Company, NoDable, Under the Jenfluence, extract brewing, how to extract brew, how to brew with an extract brewing kit, women homebrewers, homebrewsters, English Brown Ale, brew day, Ladies Brew Day, DME, LME, LME v. DME, extract recipe kits, how to homebrew, cherries, chocolate in beerComment
Dear Isinglass - How Are You a Thing in My Beer?
Dear Isinglass - How Are You a Thing in My Beer?

Even allowing for the fact that much of what we know about topics such as medicine and longstanding popular commercial products was the result of old-timey people saying "I wonder what this does. Death? Okay, then let's not do it quite like that anymore. How about when I do this?", getting from a fish to its bladder to use of said bladder in clarifying beer seemed like a huge leap. Like how many other things were people dumping in beer before they got around to thinking of drying a fish's bladder and then tossing it into beer?

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Jen Blairisinglass, clarifying agent, Guinness, vegetarian, junior scientist, homebrewing, finingsComment