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• Are the concerns about steeping oats and flaked barley warranted?
• Are the concerns about steeping oats and flaked barley warranted?
• When substituting bittering hops, how important are the hops characteristics?
• Sour Mashing: Techniques

  • Do you like beers with a little tart twinge to them? Or would you like to acidify your mash without adding calcium? If so, you may want to think about sour mashing — the other sour brewing technique.

• Hop Substitutions, to Steep or Mash Flaked Adjunts: Mr. Wizard

  • The Wizard weighs in on hop substitutions and steeping or mashing for flaked oats or flaked barley.

• Anatomy of a Commercial Clone

  • Take a look inside the process of making a clone beer kit. We ask commercial kit producers — and the brewers of the beers they cloned — how they formulated the recipe and produced the kit.

• Pumpkin to Tunkin: Last Call

  • Sure, stainless steel is a great material for brewing vessels, but what about Cucurbits?

• Build a Keggle: Projects

  • Give an old Sanke keg a new lease on life as a kettle.

• Beer Color: Advanced Brewing

  • Numbers don’t lie; but in the case of SRM, they may shade the truth a bit.

• Roggenbier: Style Profile

  • Why rye? Because a great roggenbier has a spicy, pumpernickel-like flavor and a bready, banana-like aroma. Plus: A rockin’ roggen recipe.

• Organic Brewing: Tips from the Pros

  • Amelia Slayton (Seven Bridges), and Steve Parkes (Wolaver’s) put forth their case for making beer from  organic ingredients. 

• The Dark Side of Partial Mashing

  • Partial mashing combines much of the flexibility of all-grain brewing with the convenience of brewing on your stovetop. But, there’s a dark side. Find out the problem of – and the solution to – low pH values in dark partial mashes. Plus: Seven roasty recipes to light the way.

• Organic Beer Clones

  • These days, organic beers seem to be multiplying. What’s an organic beer and why do some breweries see organic brewing as the wave of the future? Find out, plus check out the recipe for six commercial clones.

• Green Brewing

  • How would you like to brew some beer, save some money and save the planet to boot? Learn how to reduce, reuse and recycle on brewday. As you’ll see, it can be easy (and economical) being green.