Hard Cider Apples
News flash for some folks: you can make apple juice from any apple, but you can’t make good hard cider – I mean the fermented stuff – from just anything. [..]
Tag: Ken Schramm
Feeding Yeast
Proper yeast nutrition means your brew ferments faster and cleaner, leaving fewer off-flavors that have to age out. We’ll call that a good thing. Yeast is a pretty complex little [..]
Starting Yeast
I’m getting to brew a recipe from last year’s American Homebrewer Association’s national competiton – the Underwood’s “Blasphemy at GobblersRoost” (you’ll need an AHA login to view their Homebrewopedia); it’s a [..]
Brewing 101 Part 4: Mead and beer
This is from the class handout for a Brewing 101: Everything You Needed To Know class I taught in Fall 2008. Nota bene: I don’t pasteurize my honey any more; [..]