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• Mozzarella

  • Making mozzarella with Betsy Parks, the Associate Editor of Brew Your Own and a graduate of the New England Culinary Institute in Montpelier, Vermont.

• Schooner Rat IPA
• Do I need to fill the keg completely with water, or can I boil a partially filled keg, letting the steam sanitize the rest of the surfaces?
• What would be a good way to add protein to beer to make it a muscle beer with protein and carbs?
• Making Mozzarella

  • Like brewing beer? You may also enjoy trying your hand at cheesemaking.

• Beer Additives; Heating and Cooling: Mr. Wizard

  • The Wiz takes a healthy detour in answering a question about brewing an after-exercise beer and also discusses heat and sanitation.

• Parti-gyle Brewing: Techniques

  • It's an old technique that still gets used today when brewers wish to make two beers from one mash - parti-gyle brewing. Find out how to get your part- started right.

• Schooner Brew

  • A group of homebrewing landlubbers brew up the deadliest batch. 

• Best Brewday Ever: Last Call

  • The annual Great American Beer Festival: a beer drinker’s Mecca. Each year tens of thousands of brewers, aficionados and brew-parazzi descend on Denver, Colorado to taste, evaluate — and of course, compete. For homebrewer Ben Miller, 2009 was a lucky year, indeed, as he took home rare twin wins for the Samuel Adams LongShot homebrew competition and the GABF Pro-Am competition. BYO BONUS: Brew Ben's award-winning homebrews!

• Brewing with Brewdog

  • Two guys, bored with the British beer scene, founded the “hardcore” brewery Brewdog — an East Coast Scottish brewery with West Coast US sensibilities regarding experimentation and brewing boldly. Plus: three clone recipes.

• The Dark Secrets of Porter

  • Five commercial brewers give their insights into brewing porter, showing that there is more than one way to brew this dark ale, full of roasty goodness.

• Pitching Rate Experiment

  • Does pitching rate really influence your beer? We found out in the second Brew Your Own/Basic Brewing Radio Collaborative Experiment.

• Evaluating Beer: Tips from the Pros

  • Michelle Brown, Steve Parkes and Gordon Strong give tips on tasting your homebrew critically.

• Dunkelweizen: Style Profile

  • Dunkelweizen, a dark, German wheat beer with just the right balance of malty/bready flavors and wheat beer aroma.

• Foam Factors: Advanced Brewing

  • The science behind foam formation and foam stability — and how to avoid troubles with bubbles.

• Gas on Tap: Projects

  • A solution for having CO2 on demand where you need it in your brewery.