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• Flying Fish Brewery Farmhouse Summer Ale clone
• How do I find out what kind of hops are growing in my backyard?
• It was suggested that adding sodium metabisulfite to the water would clear the chloramine.
• Advertiser Reader Service
  • Click here for links to advertisers appearing in the July-August 2004 issue of Brew Your Own magazine!
• Clearing Chloramine & Historical Hopping: Mr. Wizard
  • The wise one answers your homebrewing questions.
• Replicator: Flying Fish Brewery's Farmhouse Summer Ale
  • The replicator comes up with a homebrew clone recipe for a refreshing commercial summer ale.
• 2004 Label Contest Winners!
  • From one-thousand entries came a varied assortment of cats, dogs, snakes, frogs and an udderly fantastic cream stout label that will make you laugh and cringe at the same time. Here are the top prize winners of 2004's best homemade labels for homemade beer...

• Last Call
  • Why hang your kids' pictures on the fridge when you can slap them on your beer bottle?
• Lager Tools and Techniques: Techniques
  • There's more to fermenting a lager than just keeping it cool. Learn the tools and techniques to make your lager a success.
• Decoction Mashing Explained: Advanced Homebrewing
  • Looking to maximize your maltiness? Try boiling your mash! This age-old brewing technique is explained.
• Dortmund Export: Style Profile
  • Had a tough day working in the coal mine? Every hard worker needs this hard-water lager. Learn how to brew Dortmund Export, a blue-ribbon beer style from a blue-collar town.
• Brewing with Fruit: Tips from the Pros
  • Summer is a great time to brew a fruit beer and our two professional brewers will help make sure your next one isn't the pits.
• Homebrew Nation
  • A barnyard brewery, military mashers and a super system.
• Mail
  • A controller, a smokin' question and a recipe. Plus hopping calculations.
• Everything About Water for Extract-Based Brewing
  • Water, water everywhere....but what's an extract brewer suppossed to do with it? Get your feet wet in our guide to what extract brewers should, and shouldn't, bother with when it comes to this all-important brewing ingredient.
• Bockbier -- Pride of the Bavarian Brewhouse
  • Big and malty, yet smooth and drinkable, traditional German bockbier is one of the great achievements of German brewing. Find out about this family of beers -- including Maibocks, Christmas bocks and doppelbocks -- and how to brew them at home.
• Chip Off the Old Bock -- The American Adaptation of Bock Beer
  • Old World bockbier has a New World cousin ---American bock. Once a seasonal offered by nearly every American brewery, now a year-round beer style of a few regional breweries; this beer style appears to have found a niche.