Candy Cap Mushroom Imperial Stout recipe and more

Brewing with oats, tap handle designs, dextrin malts, and more

Find Recipes Start your free trial Brew Day Bulletin Dear Homebrewer, In Candy Cap Mushroom Imperial Stout [Free], the candy cap mushrooms impart a distinct flavor and aroma of maple syrup, but unlike syrup those qualities are not lost in fermentation. Then, learn more about brewing with mushrooms [Digital Members] Break out the woodworking tools for these tap handle designs [Free] and DIY mash paddle [Digital Members]. Oats are a staple in many homebrewers' grain bins. From stouts to hazy IPAs, here's what you should know about brewing with oats [Free]. Then, brew this Maple Ave Breakfast Stout [Digital Members]. Mr. Wizard discusses dextrin malts [Free] and milling twice [Digital Members]. Don't miss our BYO Holiday Cyber Week sale! Cheers! Brad Ring Publisher Read & Brew: Free Content For All Recipe Guinness Draught clone Guinness Draught, the kind found in widget cans or bottles, is an Irish dry stout. Guinness has a sharper roast character and more hop bitterness than Murphy's. The key to making a great clone is using roasted unmalted barley (or black barley) with a color rating around 500 °L. (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.038 FG = 1.006 IBU = 45 SRM = 36 ABV = 4.2% Ingredients 5 lbs. (2.3 kg) English 2-row pale ale malt 2.5 lbs. (1.1 kg) flaked barley 1 lb. (0.45 kg) roasted barley (500 °L) 12 AAU East Kent Goldings hops (60 min) (2.4 oz./68 g of 5% alpha acids) Read more Ends tomorrow! Get 20% off everything in the BYO Store Find the perfect holiday gift for homebrewers during the BYO Holiday Cyber Week sale. Get 20% off everything in the BYO store through December 2.* Article Fabulous Foam! Pop it open. Pour. Fizz. Oh, what a relief it is. That is to have a beer with a frothy head, of course. As homebrewers we like to consider ourselves beer scholars who see beyond appearances and judge beverages on nuances of flavor. It's time to burst the bubble; the reality is that homebrewers are rather shallow in this regard. We love the looks of a creamy head on a Guinness stout or the Brussels lace left on a glass of Chimay. Why else would marketing-savvy magazine publishers include tempting pictorials of beers topped with prodigious mountains of foam? They know what we like. Read more Ask Mr Wizard Kräusen Rings Q Does the dried-up kräusen ring at the top of my fermenter after primary fermentation present a bacterial contamination risk? A Fermenting beer can at times appear unusual with its fluffy crown of yeast that looks like gargantuan cauliflower, and some of the solids that rise to the surface and adhere to the walls of the fermenter have a dirty appearance. But all of these compounds were either present in the wort prior to fermentation or were produced during fermentation from building blocks in the wort. And this dried ring of kräusen is no more appealing to spoilage bacteria than wort, fermenting beer, or fermented beer. The key to preventing bacterial problems in beer is to prevent bacteria from entering the beer environment.   Read More Only 1 Day Left to Save 20% on Online Brewing Workshops Taught by Experts Don't miss six upcoming live and interactive online workshops on All-Grain Brewing, Yeast Lab Skills, Brewing Water, Recipe Formulations, Brewery Financials, and Homebrew Experiments. Project Build a Hop Spider Picture this scenario: You're brewing an imperial IPA, and it utilizes a pretty aggressive hop bill. You've meticulously selected your ingredients, spent hours tweaking the recipe and have sourced all of the ingredients from your favorite homebrew suppliers. Brew day finally arrives and everything is going perfectly; you're hitting your mash rests with ease, your efficiency is through the roof and you've perfectly timed your hop additions. You find yourself daydreaming about cracking open a bottle or pulling a pint of this heavenly brew a few months from now once it's ready to drink, and it's as close to brewing nirvana as you've been. 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 Simple Simon (Gluten Free) Another sorghum recipe… (5 gallons/19 L, extract only) OG = 1.047  FG = 1.011 IBU = 22  SRM = 8  ABV = 4.7% Ingredients: 6 lb. 11 oz. (3.0 kg) Briess Sweet White Sorghum Syrup 45 DE High Maltose 0.50 lbs. (0.23 kg) honey 6 AAU Tettnang hops (60 mins) (1.5 oz./43 g of 4% alpha acids)   Read more Article Cask Ale Today, we are used to having ice cold, crystal clear, fizzy beer dispensed from a pressurized keg on demand, whether in a bar or at home. But not that long ago, most... Read more Ask Mr. Wizard How does silicone affect beer foam? Q I am currently a graduate student studying materials science (polymer focus) and a teaching assistant for a professor who is considered an expert on the subject of silicones. Recently he informed our students that some form of silicon is used in the brewing of beer to reduce the amount of foam. I'm assuming this is referring to the fermentation process, but I may be wrong. I see the scientific reasoning behind this idea but my question is are there commercial brewers or homebrewers who actually use silicon during any part of their brewing? And if so, how and what type of effects could this have on the flavor and body of the final product, if any? A The professor you are working for is correct to state that some brewers use anti-foams and it is also true that these compounds are silicon-based. Dimethylpolysiloxane, in the form of a water-based emulsion, is one type of anti-foam sold commercially.   Read more Project Immersion Lid Temperature Controller For the past few years I've been doing small batch brew-in-a-bag (BIAB); brewing 2.5 gallons (9.5 L) of delicious beer at a time, in my kitchen, by my lonesome. Something was missing in my homebrew life, and that was the social aspect of brewing with friends. Determined to start up a monthly collaborative "experimental brew" at my place, I began amassing oodles of excellent gear for a ¾-barrel BIAB system. Read more *Free Trial Terms and Conditions: For new members and subscribers only. Limit one per customer. Additional auto-renewal terms apply. See product checkout page for details.  *Holiday sale terms and conditions: Black Friday-Cyber Monday Deals expire 11:59 Pacific on December 2, 2020. For subscription products, discount applies to first year of Membership/Subscription only. Cannot be combined with other offers. 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