6 Dessert & Beer Pairings Perfect for Valentine’s Day
Valentine's Day is up in the ranks of holidays that result in an overload of sweets, particularly chocolate. This year, forgo the usual bottles of wine and Champagne and break out some of your tastiest homebrew to pair with dessert…
Homebrew Club S.N.O.B. Celebrates 25 Years
"The club keeps the grassroots feel that it had in the beginning. It takes a no-frills, apolitical, educational, fun approach to beer." For 25 years, the Society of Northeast Ohio Brewers (S.N.O.B.) homebrew club has been bringing Cleveland,…
2015 Great American Beer Festival Pro-Am Entries
The Great American Beer Festival (GABF) Pro-Am competition is a chance for homebrewers to team up with a commercial brewery to bring a homebrew-inspired beer to the masses. The beer is entered into the GABF Pro-Am competition…
Have a Homebrew After Dinner
A homebrew after dinner not only tastes great, but it is good for your health! A digestif is typically an alcoholic drink consumed after a meal to aid the digestive process. Although the medical field is uncertain as to whether these nightcaps…
Dan Hoffman’s Swamp Bar & Brewery
Based on Dan Hoffman's professional life as a world-renowned security expert, author of two security books and currently the chief technology officer for Viewabill.com, you wouldn't take him as an avid (this is probably an understatement) homebrewer and AHA member. When…
Session Beer: Brewing Small with Big Flavor
Homebrewing has brought us more than we could have hoped for—pushing the envelope with new, interesting twists on traditional styles. Now, consider session beers within this context. It's a beer that has a twist on the traditional style and they…
PME Trail #2, Batch #4
Sulfite according to pH of must (dosage chart at http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/andrew_lea/frameset.htm). Add CaCl2 and PME (not the same thing as pectic/pectolytic enzyme) 24 hours after sulfitization to help induce brown cap. PME may be added earlier during maceration to…
Proper Beer Serving Temperatures
Ditch the frosty mugs and listen up! Drinking beer ice-cold may sound like the perfect thirst quencher, but you are potentially missing out on much of a beer's nuances that make it so worthy of your palate in the first place.…
How to Brew a Mardi Gras King Cake Beer
King cake is a staple of the New Orleans Mardi Gras celebration. The pastry-like cake is sugary-sweet with dominant flavors of cinnamon and sugar, and its story reaches beyond that of Mardi Gras. The king cake is shrouded in religious history, originally…
South Cyde Brown Ale Recipe
Mash grains at 152°F (67°C) for 45 minutes. Ferment around 68°F (20°C).
Saison de Craisin
Mash at 149° F (65° C) for 90 minutes or until conversion is complete. Add all adjunct spices at end of boil. Ferment with Saison yeast at 75° F (24° C) until…