Category: Homebrew Beer

Boulder, Colo. — Available April 11, Crafting Brewery Culture: A Human Resources Guide for Small Breweries from Brewers Publications® is the first and only human resources book for the craft brewing industry. Crafting Brewery Culture is the newest addition to Brewers Publications’ Business of Beer portfolio of resources for brewers to excel in beer quality, finance, and now human resources. Written by Gary Nicholas, Crafting Brewery Culture provides breweries of all sizes with an invaluable roadmap for building a growth-centered brewery culture driven by positive reinforcement, teamwork, and accountability.… Read the rest “Member Presale, Exclusive Savings on New Release”

As cannabis becomes legal and available in more states, the polarizing plant has become a point of curiosity for food and beverage explorers.

Cannabis-related ingredients have long been incorporated into culinary endeavors, and today more homebrewers are finding ways to bring cannabis into the beermaking process.

Use the below resources to make your headiest beer yet!

Techniques for Using Cannabinoids in Brewing

Access a free chapter from the book Brewing with Cannabis by Keith Villa, Ph.D., founder of CERIA Brewing Company and Blue Moon Brewing Company.

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Brewing with Cannabis

Keith Villa, Ph.D.

The May/June 2023 Zymurgy magazine is now available! Check out featured stories including Czech Amber Lagers, Beers of the Volgadeutsch, Traditional Innovation, Cider, Sidra, Sgardoa, and Christmas in June.

The post May/June 2023 <em>Zymurgy</em> Magazine Now Available appeared first on American Homebrewers Association.

American Homebrewers Association… Read the rest “May/June 2023 Zymurgy Magazine Now Available”

The National Homebrew Competition (NHC) First Round judging is complete and the results have been published. 

Congratulations to First Round winners on your achievement and thank you to everyone who entered the world’s largest homebrew competition!

Scoresheets have now been emailed to all entrants via the Beer Awards Platform via contact@GetBAP.com. If you have not received these scorecards, please check your junk/spam folder before emailing contact@GetBAP.com.

In an effort to create unbiased final judging for rarer styles, the official sub-style letter will be excluded until the award ceremony on June 24.… Read the rest “2023 National Homebrew Competition First Round Results”

A (not so) long time ago in a homebrewery far, far away… an idea was born! Let’s tell the tale of the original Star Wars trilogy (IV, V, VI) with beer recipes.

This brilliant plan came from Andrew Sanders, Tyler Maybee, and Paul Crowther. The triumphant trio cohosts the Pop Culture Brews podcast, developing beer recipes inspired by their favorite movies and other pop culture media. Check out these 4 Beer Recipes Inspired By Movies.

The Pop Culture Brews crew used the same pale ale beer base for this intergalactic adventure.… Read the rest “May the Wort Be With You: Star Wars-inspired Beer Recipes”

Sourdough refers to a natural fermentation process that involves undomesticated bacteria and yeast. Instead of using packaged baker’s yeast, a fermenting mixture of flour and water containing wild yeast and bacteria is used to make the dough rise. This mixture is referred to as a “starter” and sometimes lovingly as the “mother.”

Naturally occurring wild yeasts tend to create more complex flavors than their commercially available counterparts. Lactobacillus–the tangy bacteria found in sour beers and yogurts–creates lactic acid during fermentation, which gives sourdough its signature tartness.

The four sourdough recipes below are perfect introductions to another realm of fermentation for homebrewers to explore.… Read the rest “4 Sourdough Recipes: Pizza Dough, Popovers, Bread, & Pancakes”

This article is from the May/June 2023 Zymurgy magazine. AHA members can instantly access an archive back through the year 2000 with Zymurgy Online.

By Julia Herz, American Homebrewers Association Executive Director

If asked to count the number of days I’ve homebrewed alone versus with somebody else, I’m not sure which number would be higher. I can say the number of days I’ve transferred or bottled has been more solo. Regardless, when people ask about my preferred way to brew or package beer, the answer easily is “I prefer to brew with others.”… Read the rest “Team Homebrewing Ups Your Game”

There’s nothing quite like a hoppy India pale ale (IPA)! It’s one of the most popular beer styles out there, with seemingly every craft brewery having an example ready on tap.

We’ve compiled 15 commercially-brewed IPA recipes from across the United States that have been scaled down so we can brew them at home!

Note: some of these beer recipes were submitted directly from the breweries while others are interpretations created by homebrewers.

1. Deschutes Brewery Chainbreaker

• Style: White IPA
• Brewery: Deschutes Brewery (Bend, OR)

Chainbreaker White IPA marries the best of American IPA hop profile with the spices and yeast character of Belgian witbier.… Read the rest “15 IPA Recipes from Craft Breweries”