This will save you so much time and hassle! Never fiddle with hose clamps during a brew session again! Alright..there is a small price involved..but the hassle this saves is worth it to many homebrewers. Add a couple more quick disconnects to your immersion chiller and you will be brewing without the hassle of hose clamps. If you thought this was useful, we’d love to hear about it! Leave us a comment below! Cheers!

For a good portion of the homebrewing population, this was probably the book that you checked out first. Praised by nearly everyone in the homebrewing community, The Complete Joy of Homebrewing by Charlie Papazian is down to earth and simple to follow. The book is probably the best book out there for the beginner, but don’t be fooled into thinking the intermediate brewer or more advanced brewer won’t get anything useful out of it..because they surely will. Charlie dives into many subjects here to get the brewer thinking about them, while not being overly scientific or boring. He mentions things [...]

A good immersion chiller can get your entire batch of homebrew below the DMS production range in less than two minutes, in some cases, one minute.  Copper is the most common coil used to create this type of wort chiller but with the price of copper rising, stainless steel is only a few dollars more. This will guarantee lifelong use. Immersion chillers will chill down to yeast pitching temperatures in less than ten minutes, and faster if you include a whirlpool recirculation port which was popularized by Jamil Zainasheff. The principle behind the recirculation port is to get liquid moving [...]

Alright first book review!  Designing Great Beers: The Ultimate Guide to Brewing Classic Styles by Ray Daniels is by far one of the best books a homebrewer could get.  And we’re not exaggerating.  For once a title lives up to it’s name.  It’s no wonder because Ray Daniels is the president of the Craft Beer Institute.  respected international beer judge, founder of the Cicerone Certification Program.  He has written other books including Smoked Beers and The Brewer’s Association’s Guide to Starting Your Own Brewery. The book is divided into two sections. Part One, and Part Two, naturally. Part one is [...]

So you have the PERFECT all-grain recipe but only limited time to brew it..OR you want a friend to brew it but he/she doesn’t have an all-grain setup. Sound familiar? Converting all-grain homebrew recipes to malt extract is a fairly simple and straightforward procedure. Using the procedures outlined here, you will be able to take an all-grain recipe and easily convert it to extract. Here is the procedure we will be following: Divide the grain bill into different categories to determine if a partial mash or steeping of the grains is necessary. Make calculations necessary to figure out extract and [...]