Category: Homebrew Beer

10 Berliner Weisse Beer Recipes You Can Homebrew

German-style Berliner weisse is known for it’s tart character and low alcohol by volume. Browse through these 10 Berliner weisse recipes, including National Homebrew Competition winning beer recipes.

Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) description: A very pale, refreshing, low-alcohol German wheat beer with a clean lactic sourness and a very high carbonation level. A light bread dough malt flavor supports the sourness, which shouldn’t seem artificial.

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Kilt Dropper Wee Heavy

Start with RO water and add salt additions to mash water. Perform a single-infusion mash for 60 min. with 1.3 qt./lb. at 154°F (68°C). Vorlauf until wort is free of grain. Add salts to sparge water (with the exception of baking soda or pickling lime). Add acid to bring the sparge water to 5.6 pH then fly sparge at 170°F (77°C) until around 8 gal. (30.28 L) of wort is collected. Boil for 90 min., or until about 6.6 gal. (25 L) of wort remains. Whirlpool and chill wort to around 60°F (16°C) and transfer clear wort to fermenter.… Read the rest “Kilt Dropper Wee Heavy”

Iceberg! Kölsch

Bulk treat 10 gal. (37.85 L) RO water with 2 g each pickling lime, gypsum, and calcium chloride.

Follow low-oxygen brewing practices to the extent possible with your system. Techniques employed were pre-boiling and chilling strike water, purging tubing and grain bed with CO2, underletting mash, using a mash cap, and conducting a full-volume mash to avoid need for sparging.

Dough in at 144°F (62°C), then step mash at 148°F (64°C), 153°F (67°C), 163°F (73°C), and 170°F (77°C) for 45, 10, 45, and 15 min., respectively.

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Quick Show of Hands: Who Wants To Do Club Night This Year?

The AHA has secured a brewery location (thank you, Denver Beer Co., who are ready to offer behind-the-scenes access and exclusive tours of their Jason Street production facility that the public doesn’t normally get to see). With that…we need a sense of club participation.

If your club is interested in participating, please let us know no later than 5:00 p.m. MT on Monday, July 1.

What’s Club Night?

Club Night is dedicated to celebrating homebrewing and homebrew clubs. Clubs from across the U.S. bring in elaborate setups to showcase their club’s best homebrew offerings.… Read the rest “Quick Show of Hands: Who Wants To Do Club Night This Year?”

Midyear 2024 Update for AHA Members 

By Julia Herz, American Homebrewers Association (AHA) Executive Director

Hello, everyone, and happy May. I’m pleased to share this midyear update. If you are reading this post or watching the video, I hope you have homebrew bubbling away in a fermenter, chilling in your fridge, and frosting up your glass. 

Membership Cards, Member Deals and More

Physical membership cards are back! If you’d like one, request yours online at HomebrewersAssociation.org. Also, all members automatically have a digital card that you can access from your HomebrewersAssociation.org account.

 A friendly reminder from January 2023: the AHA discontinued our BrewGuru app in favor of mobile responsive access to recipes and Member Deals.… Read the rest “Midyear 2024 Update for AHA Members ”

Tupearelo Pear Mead

Clean and sanitize all equipment before making mead. Mix 5.1 lb. (2.31 kg) honey, 6 qt. (5.68 L) pear juice, and enough spring water to reach 5 gal. Add pectic enzyme and nutrients. Because kveik yeast works so quickly at high temperatures (this mead finished in less than a week), treat the must as high YAN (yeast-assimilable nitrogen) and add all nutrients (i.e., do not stagger) before pitching yeast. Oxygenate (or stir vigorously) for about a minute prior to pitch. No starter was used, just pitch the pouch. This mead was fermented in a bucket wrapped in a honey warming blanket.… Read the rest “Tupearelo Pear Mead”

Want Exclusive Access to Great American Beer Festival Presale Tickets and Discounts?

Beer family and friends: It’s almost time for the Great American Beer Festival® (GABF®), the nation’s largest and longest-running beer festival and cultural phenomenon!

With a brand-new floorplan, five new experience areas, and thousands of beers plus many other types of beverages to choose from, the 2024 GABF is poised to be the Best Fest Yet.

The American Homebrewers Association (AHA) is excited to announce that members will receive advance access to the ticket presale for this year’s GABF, the premier beer event of the year. The presale includes access to discounted tickets to PAIRED®, the most scrumptious beer and food event in the country.… Read the rest “Want Exclusive Access to Great American Beer Festival Presale Tickets and Discounts?”

July/August 2024 Zymurgy Magazine Now Available

The July/August 2024 Zymurgy magazine is now available! Check out featured stories on Homebrewing with AI and IoT, Egyptian Drum Roasting, Bag-In-A-Keg systems and Munich’s seventh official brewery, Giesinger Bräu.

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