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Recipe Design
Brewing is both an art and a science, and no part of the process encapsulates that as much as designing a recipe. Find advice on how to design your next great brew, and then let your creativity guide you.
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Calculating Alcohol Content, Attenuation, Extract, and Calories
Learn how to calculate measures of extract, real and apparent attentuation, alcohol content and how many calories are in your beer.
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Hitting Target Original Gravity and Volume
Learn the tips and techniques to nail your target volume and original specific gravity every time you brew a batch of homebrew.
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Mr. Wizard
When you want to double the batch size of a recipe, do you just double all the ingredients also?
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Recipe Formulation: Tips from the Pros
This month’s professional brewers dispense some sage advice on recipe formulation. From the basic task of learning your system to some ver
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Calculating Gravity, Bitterness, and Color
A handy guide to calculating gravity, bitterness and color
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Managing Mash Thickness
Understanding your mash gives you more control over the brewing process. The ins and outs of mashing in, mash temperatures, and mash thickne
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Alpha-Hop Soup: Figuring Bitterness (IBUs, AAUs and HBUs)
Figuring Bitterness: IBUs, AAUs, and HBUs.
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The Art of Recipe Design
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Competitive Recipe Calculations
You gotta’ keep it calculated…
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Extract to All-Grain and Back
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Convert Your All-Grain Recipe to Extract
go from extract to all-grain. Find a substitute for elusive hops or yeast. The do’s and don’ts of recipe conversions.
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Create Your Own Recipe
Make your own beer as original as you are by combining creativity with solid craft. Here are a few basic rules and some philosophy to get