This article is one in a series describing the seasonal yeasts put out by our liquid yeast manufacturers. This one is.. Wyeast 1581-PC Belgian Stout “A very versatile ale strain from Belgium. Excellent for Belgian stout and Belgian Specialty ales. Ferments to dryness and produces moderate levels of esters without significant phenolic or spicy characteristics.”[…]
2014 Big Brew Day & Food Drive
Every year the American Homebrew Association encourages homebrewers around the world to gather around their kettles and welcome spring by brewing the biggest batch of homebrew ever! This event, Big Brew Day falls on Saturday, 3 May 2014 this year. We up the game by combining Big Brew Day with a food drive in[…]
All Stores Closed for Easter
All five locations will be closed for Easter Sunday, April 20th. We will be open normal business hours the Saturday before, and Monday after.
Kombucha – Fermented Tea for your Health!
Probiotics are all the rage, both in popular culture and in the scientific communities. It’s really about exposing yourself to certain classes of microorganisms that can support healthy digestive tract function. Homebrewers get a steady dose of Saccharomyces cerevisiae,which has long been a great source of B-complex vitamins but does occasionally raise its own problems.[…]
Making Meads the Modern Way
My meads have a terrible track record of being mediocre to rubbing alcohol. Try as I might I just never got the knack of making a good standard mead. In researching what I may have been doing wrong, I ran across this excellent sticky thread on the Homebrew Talk forums. The secret, they said, was[…]
Local Author Meet-up – Belmont, MA
One of our customers just gave us the heads up that Audacity of Hops author Tom Acitelli will be appearing at the Belmont Public Library next Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 7:PM. This is to be a free event with a beer tasting provided by the Craft Beer Cellar. Should be a good time! Link[…]
Seasonal Yeast – White Labs WLP510 Bastogne Belgian Ale Yeast
This article is one in a series describing the seasonal yeasts put out by our liquid yeast manufacturers. This one is.. White Labs WLP510 Bastogne Belgian Ale Yeast “A high gravity, Trappist style ale yeast. Produces dry beer with slight acidic finish. More ‘clean’ fermentation character than WLP500 or WLP530. Not as spicy as WLP530[…]
New Rochelle Now Open Mondays!
Our New Rochelle location is now open on Mondays from 11 am to 6 pm. Come visit us!
Meet the Author: Beer Terrain
On Thursday, 20 February 2014 we’ve arranged for Beer Terrain author Jonathan Cook to be at the Harvard Square John Harvard’s Brew House in the semi-private room at 7:PM. He will be discussing his book Beer Terrain: Field to Glass from the Berkshires to the Maine Coast. The focus of the book is on locally[…]
Hop Rhizome Pre-order now OPEN!
Here’s the complete list. You can pre-order at your local store or shop online!
