The Beer Cellar

Seminar

40 Things in 40 Minutes: 40 Tips, Tricks, Techniques & Tweaks to Improve your Brewing, Meadmaking & Cidermaking

We will show you 40 tips, tricks, techniques and tweaks in 40 rapid-fire, interactive minutes. Don't blink as Barry and Mike tackle rescuing failed fermentations, brewing resources, ingredients, beer styles, DIY, networking, competitions, hopping techniques, gadgets and technology, software, blending,…

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A Guide to Blending Yeast Strains

Have you ever been curious about blending two yeasts together during fermentation? What would happen if you mixed your favorite Saison and British strains? We’ll look at ways you can blend yeast strains to obtain your optimal fermentation and flavor…

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A Homebrewer’s Musings on Barrel Aging

While barrel aging is popular at the pro level, it can be intimidating for homebrewers. Not understanding nuances specific to barrel aging can create uncertainty for homebrewers and potentially leads to avoidance of these traditional flavor- and aroma- enhancing vessels.…

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An Introduction to Brewing Sake

Sake is a beverage that unlike beer, wine, cider—and more recently mead—has neither a strong cultural tradition nor a large, knowledgeable hobbyist collective in the U.S. That said, the process of making sake shares many similarities with Western fermentables. This…

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Backyard Beekeeping for Homebrewers

Many homebrewers would make meads and use honey in their homebrew if they could get it more cheaply. Backyard beekeeping is the solution! Learn how to start in the beekeeping hobby and how to use your honey in your own…

Seminar

Beer Recipes from the Inside Out

Randy Mosher offers insights and practical tools for recipe formulation based on his long experience in homebrewing and more recently as a team member at two award-winning breweries. Each category of ingredient, especially malt and hops, has its own unique…

Seminar

Bootleg Brew Science

What's more local than making homebrew with yeast isolated from your own backyard? Come learn how anyone can be a "bootleg" yeast wrangler, using proven homebrew methods, basic-level lab techniques and a paper clip. Jeff Mello from Bootleg Biology will…

Seminar

American Homebrewers Association

The Beer Cellar

40 Things in 40 Minutes: 40 Tips, Tricks, Techniques & Tweaks to Improve your Brewing, Meadmaking & Cidermaking

A Guide to Blending Yeast Strains

A Homebrewer’s Musings on Barrel Aging

An Introduction to Brewing Sake

Backyard Beekeeping for Homebrewers

Beer Recipes from the Inside Out

Bootleg Brew Science

Brew In A Bag: It Really Works!

Blame the Maltster: An Overview of Malting Operations and How They Influence Your Beer

Brewing Better Beer: Practical Applications