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.”[…]
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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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
Trappist Ale now made in the U.S.A.
Once the chants of U. S. A. U. S. A. die down, your ears will catch a different kind of chanting. A holier kind that adheres to the dictates of Saint Benedict. Established in 1950, the Trappist monastery in Spencer, Massachusetts has decided to join their European brethren and produce one of the most strictly[…]
Avangard – A new malt from Germany
We are pleased to announce that we now have access to a new malting house, Avangard. Established in 2006, Avangard is only now being introduced to the American market. While we’re always happy to see greater variety in our ingredient stock, we’re not planning on bringing it into regular rotation as yet. Such an honor[…]
1872 Porter – Homebrew the Champion Beer of Britain!
The Homebrew Emporium is a supporter of NERAX, the New England Real Ale eXbition held several times a year in the greater Boston area. At the recent NERAX North, Regional Manager (and NERAX Cellarman) Randy Baril met Elland Brewery’s headbrewer Martin Ogley. Their discussion of distinctive British malts lead to the development of this homebrew[…]
Brew IPA – Support Pints for Prostates®
For the past couple of years one of our suppliers, makers of the Brewer’s Best line of equipment and ingredient kits, has made the PSA IPA ingredient kit available in the fall. This is a special, limited release that has the added benefit of supporting awareness about the scourge of prostate cancer. A fixed amount[…]
