Transform your winter warmer with this centuries old tradition! My favorite local beer store, Beer Study, was having a special release of the seasonal Cold Mountain beer from Highland Brewing along with some special releases to kick off the holiday season. As if this wasn't exciting enough, they were pairing it with a Bierstacheln event! Wait...what the heck is a Bierstacheln? Read on... Bierstacheln is a centuries-old German beer tradition where a red-hot metal rod is p

Hop Harvest is here!

After hearing some very positive reviews of the fairly new hop terpene products called Abstrax Quantum , I started thinking about ways to...

I've been thinking about how to get more people interested in homebrewing and was talking to some friends and co-workers about it. Some...

Malty And Refreshing Since MaiBock is typically enjoyed in May, I decided to brew a late spring lager before the summer really sets in. ...

As I mentioned in a previous post, my Lenten Bock was delicious, brite and clear. It tasted great but then the inevitable happened. It...

Just wanted to share a quick post regarding floating dip tubes. I have been in the habit of changing the floating dip tube every time I...

After watching brewing video after video, seeing the host utilize their fancy Anton Parr digital refractometer, I started to wonder if...

Having employed the Yeast Oxygen Scavenging method for several months now (see post here ), it seems to me that there is no down side to...

MoreBeer! recently released their Flash Brew Kits for easy and quick homebrewing with no mashing or boiling. What???? From MoreBeer :...

SOTB has been selected to host a special Pinter homebrew system taproom event. I am trying to pick a date sometime in late August. I was...

I was doing some research for my next brew (German Helles) and I came across an article in the recent Beer & Brewing Magazine that...

In my previous post, I discussed having 2 bad batches of beer in a row. While I wasn't sure what was actually causing the problem, I...

Infected Batch

I did some more research on the effects of Dissolved Oxygen (DO) in the strike water and once again, although there are many detractors,...

Quick method for finding keg leaks

I am brewing another artichoke beer for my buddy and I was thinking about ways to fill a uKeg growler without exposing the beer to too...

A recent Brulosophy post motivated me to write something here about serving beer from a pressurized fermenter, as many of us do here at...

A few weeks ago, I added a new part-time job in Tempe, AZ to my monthly schedule. Little did I know this dental position would somehow,...

So here I go again talking about low oxygen brewing on the hot side, before fermentation. As I discussed in my last post, one method to...