Maltiness is what you want to achieve with your Altbier recipe. A good Munich malt should be the first malt you look for when deciding on an Altbier recipe. If you indeed use only Munich malt, you can look for 5 to 8 Lovibond. If you use a higher Lovibond, such as 10 to 20L, ...
Anchor even paid homage to its German predecessors by describing their Summer Wheat as a beer that may contain yeast and be hazy like a Hefeweizen. Yes, there were hazy beers before hazy beers! The yeast used by Anchor was clean and did not contain the same phenolic spiciness and banana e...
If you are making aGerman stylewheat beer, it is natural for a wheat beer to have an element of cloudiness. Some beers, like GermanHefeweizens, use yeasts and ingredients that make the beer cloudy no matter what you do. So how do the big breweries avoid producing cloudy beer? It’s a...
Before you label: figure out your brew’s brand personality— We hate to bring up ancient history, but Socrates has some great advice about craft beer packaging: know thyself. That doesn’t mean you have to sign up for a weekend yoga/detox retreat—even if they do have beer yoga these ...
There’s no need to get upset. Have some fun with contrasting pairings by thinking of things that are very different. If a lobster roll is rich, delicate, buttery, and sweet, try beers that are light, full, acidic, or spicy. For instance: Hefeweizen These smooth, refreshing beers fill ...
Here’s the yeasty goo at the bottom, which goes into the fridge to be used later to kickstart the next batch: Finally, the cider is bottled in pints saved from a case of Schöfferhofer Hefeweizen. I use 0.5 tsp of white sugar for priming. After a couple of weeks in the bottle ...