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• What is the hardest kind of beer to brew at home and what is the easist?
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• Dry Hopping: Techniques
  • Want more hop aroma in your beer? Then try dry hopping and transport yourself to hop heaven.
• Hard and Easy Homebrews: Mr. Wizard
  • The wise one answers your homebrewing questions.
• Beauty and the Yeast
  • You make the wort. but it's the yeast that turns it into beer. What you can do to ensure that your fungal friends get off to a fast start and finish at the proper specific gravity.

• Last Call
  • An Alaskan homebrewer weighs in his determination at the office.
• Brewer's Log
  • Better bottles, labeled mugs, organic hops and great glasses.
• Build a Bottlewasher: Projects
  • A new device you can build for cleaning and sanitizing brewing containers.
• The Role of pH: Homebrew Science
  • How the pH of wort and beer changes during the brewing process.
• Dunkelweizen: Style Profile
  • Learn how to brew this dark, delicious weizenbier just like a Garman brewmeister.
• Using American Hops: Tips from the Pros
  • Uncle Sam wants you....to brew with Cascades, Centennial, Columbus, Crystal (and perhaps some other American hops that don't begin with the letter "C").
• Homebrew Nation
  • The Hairy Dog Brewery, Chef Buck brews and the Dixie Cup gets le'd. Plus: the Replicator clones Total Disorder Porter.
• Mail
  • Hops, hard lemonade, balancing banana aromas and a keg idea kiboshed.
• Pale Ale
  • You know it. You love it. Now the guy who wrote the book on pale ale will tell you how to brew it. Includes recipes for a classic English pale ale, a classic American pale ale and the author's favorite brewpub pale ale. Plus: Homebrew-inspired adaptations that push the limits of the style.
• Beer Styles: Between Theory and Practice
  • Where did beer styles come from and how did they develop? What do they mean and how shall we define them? A trip through brewing history sheds some light on these questions. Plus: Beer styles -- what good are they?