10 new hop varieties and more

Plus, Varietal Beer Co.'s Africanized Wolves IPA clone, dangling a beer carrot, the importance of brewing ingredients, and more

Find Recipes Start your free trial Brew Day Bulletin Dear Homebrewer, We rounded up 10 new hop varieties [Free], including descriptors, pro brewers' takes, and even clone recipes for as many of these new varieties as we could find. Then, take a deep dive into hop breeding history and current processes [Digital Members]. Varietal Beer Co.'s Africanized Wolves IPA clone [Free] is a New England IPA that relies almost entirely on South African hops, giving it a unique flavor with notes of tangerine and strawberry. Icarus Brewing Co.'s Pineapple Hindenburg clone [Digital Members] starts with a very nice New England-style pale ale, then throws fresh habaneros into the kettle and conditions it on fresh pineapple that complements the BRU-1TM hops. Get ready for apple season by building your own cider press [Digital Members]. Mr. Wizard discusses specific ingredient substitutions in recipes and the importance of brewing ingredients [Free] in general (excluding water). Then read this Mr. Wizard column for suggestions on understanding water chemistry [Digital Members].  Finally, we're not really sure what to call this thing, but it provides a fun, socially-distant beer drinking challenge [Free].  Cheers! Brad Ring Publisher Read & Brew: Free Content For All Recipe Varietal Beer Co.'s Africanized Wolves IPA clone This New England IPA relies almost entirely on South African hops, giving it a unique flavor with notes of tangerine and strawberry. (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.054  FG = 1.005 IBU = 42  SRM = 4  ABV = 6.5% Ingredients 11 lbs. (5 kg) Rahr pale malt 5.9 oz. (167 g) Carafoam® malt 2.9 oz. (82 g) acidulated malt 5.2 AAU Mosaic® hops (30 min.) (0.4 oz./11 g at 13.0% alpha acids) Read more NanoCon goes online! Don't miss targeted live online brewing and business seminars to help you run or launch a successful small-scale craft brewery in these challenging times.  Article 10 New Hops to Brew With It still strikes me as a little odd when I see a beer can boldly declaring "hops" as an ingredient. Sure, hops are an ingredient in almost every modern beer, but the descriptor does almost nothing in describing the beer without a lot of qualifying information and an indication of what hop varieties are in the beer. It's about as useful as saying there is "fruit" in the fruit salad, or "meat" in the meatloaf. There may have been a day when simply saying "hops" was enough, and in some circles it may still be.  Read more Ask Mr Wizard The Importance of Brewing Ingredients Q I see some beer recipes that specify ingredients by supplier, and others that take a more generic approach. Does it really make much of a difference to the finished beer if ingredient substitutions are made within a type, for example Munich malt from one maltster substituted for Munich malt from another maltster? A In full disclosure, I work for BSG, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rahr Malting Company in Shakopee, Minnesota, and do bring some bias with the answer that follows. BSG sells malt, hops, and a wide range of brewing supplies to homebrew retailers and to commercial brewers of all sizes. This is a relatively new job for me; some readers probably remember that I worked for Paul Mueller Company, a stainless steel company, for the last 20 years, and that I am also affiliated with the Springfield Brewing Company in Springfield, Missouri. OK, enough of the legal disclosure, let's get on with this great question!   Read More Project The Moonlighter Challenge: Dangling a beer carrot Don't you just hate it when you see people that think they know how everything is done? No one likes a know-it-all . . . until now. Last year I did this build and I am still uncertain of what it is called. But whatever it is called, it will provide hours of entertainment watching people try to figure it out. I called mine "The Moonlighter Challenge," after my homebrew club. After doing some research (drinking beer in various awkward positions) I was ready for my build. The best thing about it is that you probably have just about everything you need laying around for this build.  Read More For Digital Members Only Members get access to thousands of recipes, all new BYO issues and more. Try membership risk free for 14 days.* Brew Better. Try Membership, Free!* Recipe Icarus Brewing Co.'s Pineapple Hindenburg clone This recipe was born out of a collaboration with the Ocean County Homebrewers club. The base recipe makes a very nice New England-style pale ale, but Icarus takes that and throws fresh habaneros into the kettle and conditions it on fresh pineapple that complements the BRU-1TM hops. (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.064  FG = 1.016 IBU = 17.1  SRM = 6  ABV = 6.2% Ingredients 4.75 lbs. (2.2 kg) Golden Promise pale ale malt 2.75 lbs. (1.25 kg) spelt malt (wheat malt if unavailable) 2 lbs. (0.9 kg) Vienna malt   Read more Article A Decade in the Making Humulus lupulus, most commonly known as hops, is a perennial fruiting plant that has been used in beer production for centuries. Beer is where the hops end up, but where do the hops come from? The first documented hop cultivation occurred in Central Europe in the 9th century1, with evidence from 10th century England that hops were commercially cultivated and traded between countries.2 Read more Ask Mr. Wizard Dial In Your Brewing Water No Matter The Source Q A lot of recipes and water articles give mineral levels in ppms (parts per million). How do you test these figures? Or do most brewers start with reverse osmosis (RO) water and add set amounts of water salts? A Thanks for the great question about water. I will jump into the middle of the pool here and try not to stray towards the deep end where the abyss of things not relevant to homebrewing lies. The crux of your question is how does one determine the starting point with water, and like most things in life there are multiple places to find information about your water.    Read more Project Build a Cider Press A small cider press can cost hundreds of dollars. It is not difficult, however, to build your own press using inexpensive materials. The design of the press is flexible, to take into account the variation in the materials you can find. To get an idea of the trade-offs you can make, it is useful to look at what the press has to do. Read more *For new members and subscribers only. Limit one per customer. Additional auto-renewal terms apply. See product checkout page for details.  Copyright © 2020 Brew Your Own, All rights reserved. You were subscribed to the newsletter from Brew Your Own Our mailing address is: Brew Your Own 5515 Main St Manchester Center, VT 05255 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.