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Brewing Beer at Home: Tasting the Homebrew
Beer Sessions

The day has finally arrived! Our homemade beer has been brewed, fermented, and bottled. We've survived two weeks of anxious anticipation without a single bottle exploding. A few days ago, we put a c...

Brewing Beer at Home: Bottling the Homebrew
Beer Sessions

We've brewed the beer, let it ferment, and now we're finally ready to get it into bottles. We're so close to having homebrew we can almost taste it! And in fact, we did sneak a little taste - for pu...

Brewing Beer at Home: The Wort and First Fermentation
Beer Sessions

This past weekend, we got out all our shiny new beer brewing equipment and went to work. In this first phase, we boiled the wort, added the yeast, and got our very first batch of beer fermenting hap...

Brewing Beer at Home: Basic Homebrewing Equipment
Beer Sessions

We are absolutely giddy at the prospect of brewing our own beer. It's something that we've wanted to do for quite some time, and this weekend we finally took the plunge! Want to join us? Here's the ...

Beer Guide: All About Malts

Along with water, hops, and yeast, malt is the other key ingredient for making beer. Shorthand for malted barley, malts are integral to fermentation and are also responsible for many of those deliciou...

Beer Guide: What Are Hops?

Beer buffs will often describe the flavor of a particular beer by saying things like "It's hoppy," or "Not a lot of hops." Ever wonder what the heck these guys are talking about? Read on......