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• Piatz’s Basic Lambic (December 2004)

  • Steve Piatz is a member of the Minnesota Home Brewers Association.

• Can I bottle condition my beers but somehow not have that layer of yeast residue at the bottom of the bottle?
• What is the best way to convert a keg to a brewing kettle with a spigot?
• Advertiser Reader Service
  • Click here for links to advertisers appearing in the October 2004 issue of Brew Your Own magazine!
• Keg Ethics 101: Mr. Wizard
  • The wise one answers your homebrewing questions.
• Color Tips for Extracts: Tips from the Pros
  • Extract brewing might sound simple, but it still provides plenty of room to customize your beer. Color, for example, is one target that extract brewers can work to fine tune. Here, two professional brewers who use extract offer their thoughts on getting the color you want from your extract homebrews.
• Lambic Brewing
  • Take some wort contaminated with all sorts of microbes, let it "rot" for years and what do you get? One of the most interesting and unique styles of beer on the planet. Find out how to brew this sensational sour beer from Belgium.

• Homebrewsters: Last Call
  • Is a woman's place in the kitchen? It is if she's brewing, says one homebrewster.
• Last Call
  • Blessed are the homebrewers, for they've whipped up one holy batch of homebrew - the Exalted Malted
• Mash/Lauter Tun: Projects
  • An updated mash/lauter tun for RIMS brewing.
• Sour Beers: Techniques
  • Whether it's lambic, Flander's red or Berliner weisse, everything you need to soup up your sour beer is here in this tantalizing treatise on tangy tartness.
• Berliner Weisse: Style Profile
  • Whether you call it the Champagne of the north or the workers' sparkling wine, you're talking about some unique and sour bubbly - Berliner Weisse.
• Homebrew Nation
  • The tale of Pig Tail Ale. And, The Great Northern Brewers fought the law... and they won! The details of their clash with lawmakers. Plus: the Replicator rolls the dice and clones Sin City Amber Ale.
• Mail
  • A question about the hop clones, another question about the hop clones and yet another question about the hop clones. Plus: a hop clone question
• Extract Experiments: Four Extract Methods Go Head to Head
  • There are a lot of ways to make beer from malt extract, but which one is best? Find out as we put four extract brewing methods - the standard method, the extract late method, the Texas two-step and the full-wort boil method - to the test. Plus: the right method for the right style of beer.
• A History of Malt Extract: Part 1 - Anchors Aweigh!
  • Set sail on a journey of new inventions, scurvy sailors and botched beer. It's the (early) history of malt extract. Plus: historical extract recipes straight from Captain Cook!
• Make Your Beer Burn: Bring the Heat of Hot Peppers to Your Brewing
  • Find out how to add the heat of hot peppers to your homebrew and which styles of beer go best with the burn. Everything you need to know how to brew your own caliente.