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How To Get A Fuller Body For Your Homebrewed Beer
Many beer styles rely on a full bodied beer with great head retention, mouthfeel and complex character. Higher body comes
by Brad Smith1 viewhomebrewingfull-bodyhead-retentionhomebrewmaltmouthfeel - news
Three locals honored at 2026 National Homebrew Competition
Image credit: American Homebrewers Association. Three area homebrewers were honored tonight at the 2026 National Homebrew Competition (NHC), taking place this year in Asheville, North Carolina. Hosted by the American Homebrewers Association , this year's event drew 3575 entries from homebrewers located around the world. Submissions were then judged across 40 categories covering homebrewed beer, cider (and perry) and mead. Award winners from North Texas are summarized below. You can also click here to view a complete competition summary. Barry Forrest of Dallas. Silver in the Smoke-Flavored Beer category. Club Affiliation: Horsemen of the Hopocalypse . Karl Wayne King of Colleyville. Silver in the Strong European Lager category. Club Affiliation: Cap & Hare Homebrew Club . Jarrett Long of Arlington. Gold in the Specialty IPA category. Bronze in the Specialty Mead category. Club Affiliation: Horsemen of the Hopocalypse . Cheers and congratulations to all!
by noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)2 viewsamerican-homebrewers-associationaward-winning-beershomebrewhomebrew-competitionnational-homebrew-competition - news
Homebrew Hero | Jim Rangeley
One of the UK’s most regarded brewers, Jim Rangeley is known for his ability to brew a wealth of different beer styles. But it’s his passion for mixed fermentation that really excites our very own ‘2024 Brewers Choice – Brewer of The Year’. Here Jim, the lead brewer at Abbeydale Brewery’s Funk Dungeon mixed fermentation...
by Tim3 viewslong-readshombrewinghomebrewhomebrew-hero - news
Making Bolt
I am going to the UK in about five weeks time, mostly for work, but also taking the opportunity of being over there to go an visit my parents in the north of Scotland - basically get to Inverness and keep going north, yeah, that north. The primary purpose for the trip is a work conference in London though. I haven't been to London in absolutely ages, I think the last time I was there was on one of my trips home to Scotland from Prague, when I would take the bus from Czechia to London and from thence up to Glasgow, and on to the Isle of Skye for the ferry to Uist. I honestly have no idea when I last spent a few days in London, it might be way back in the dim and distant past when we would go and visit my nan when my little brother and I were proper nippers - I have a core memory of watching "It's A Knockout" safely tucked up in her sofa bed. In amongst all my looking at pubs in and around Westminster, I'll be staying just round the corner from the Abbey, I have been keeping an eye
by noreply@blogger.com (Alistair Reece)4 viewsbeer-clonesboltmakerhomebrewtimothy-taylor - news
Aged Porter and Mild
In 2017 I designed and brewed a beer with Three Notch'd Brewing in Charlottesville, Blackwall London Porter. The recipe for Blackwall was based on copious amounts of research into porter brewing in the middle of the 19th century, and named for the docks in London which were so central to the history of the British Empire. Featuring about 30% brown malt, the beer was only brewed a couple of times, but at the last brewing in 2018, I made sure to get myself a growler's worth for a little project. Beer hacking, to use Evan Rail's term. As well as my growler of Blackwall, I bought a bottle of Orval, which I promptly drank and pitched the dregs, containing all that brettanomyces goodness, into the growler, and soon enough the gasket on the swing top was thoroughly deformed as the additional CO2 created by our friend brett was expelled. Yesterday, after nearly 8 years of the growler sitting on the shelf in my beer room, I took the opportunity of the head brewer from Selvedge helping me
by noreply@blogger.com (Alistair Reece)4 viewsbeer-hackingblackwall-london-porterdark-mildhomebrewlondon-porter - news
Craft Brewing with John Mallett – BeerSmith Podcast #342
This week John Mallett from Bell’s Brewery joins me to discuss his new role as Course Directory of the MBAA,
by Brad Smith5 viewsbeersmith-podcasthomebrewingvideosbeerbellsbrewing - news
Homebrew Blitzed
I used to enter homebrew competitions far more regularly, then kids happened and brewing took a bit of a back seat for a few years. Eventually though, things eased up and brewing become a more regular part of life, getting a proper kegerator definitely helped, as did getting a chest freezer for cold fermentation and then lagering. For the last couple of years I have brewed, on average, once every three weeks - well, the kegerator won't feed itself after all, and getting beer on tap in my own kitchen is freaking awesome. Admittedly I dipped a toe back into competition world last summer when I submitted a couple of brews to the Dominion Cup, but not knowing that feedback is now online rather than sent in the mail, I have no idea how they fared, other than not getting any gongs. To be honest, I didn't actually know that until Sunday morning when a friend told me that feedback was through the app for Virginia Beer Blitz, which was on Saturday. I entered three beers in this year's competiti
by noreply@blogger.com (Alistair Reece)4 viewshomebrewvirginia-beer-blitzwafflings - news
April Meeting: All About Dat Spice At Samara!
Location: Samara Brewing Co.Date: Monday April 13th, 2026Time: 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM ET You Drafted. You Didn't. We All Drink. Whether you went home with a bag of carrots, and a prayer, or wisely sat out and watched others make questionable life choices, we're all about to level up how we use spices, herbs, and … Continue reading April Meeting: All About Dat Spice At Samara! →
by Viginesh Sankararaman4 viewsclub-meetinghomebrewtoronto - news
BeerSmith 4 Available Now for Windows and Mac
I’m pleased to announce the release of BeerSmith 4 for Windows and Mac as well as a partial release of
by Brad Smith4 viewsbeersmith-softwarehomebrewingbeersmith-4beerbrewinghomebrew - news
Make Mead at Home
Mead is one of the oldest alcoholic drinks in the world. At its heart, it is simple. Honey, water and yeast. That is all you need to turn honey into a drink that people have been making for thousands of years. What surprises most people is how easy it is to make mead at home.… Read More » Make Mead at Home The post Make Mead at Home appeared first on Get Er Brewed Blog .
by Geterbrewed4 viewshomebrewhoney-winemaking-mead-at-homemead - news
GTA Brews Club Barrel Project
Club Barrel Fill #6 That's right, we've brought it back! GTA Brews is the proud owner of a freshly emptied Wild Turkey bourbon barrel and with it we are re-opening the Club Barrel Fill Project! The barrel will be hosted by our generous partners over at Samara Brewing Company. A few words about the barrel: … Continue reading GTA Brews Club Barrel Project →
by Josh Davis4 viewsclub-barrelneeds-current-membershipbarrelbrewgta-brewshomebrewhomebrewclub - news
March Meeting: Competition Draft At Rorschach!
Location: Rorschach Brewing Co.Date: Monday March 9th, 2026Time: 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM ET For our March club meeting, we're going to be back at Rorschach Brewing Co. This month, we have something special than a regular presentation. Follow along for more details.Instead of our usual 7pm, the meeting would start at 8pm. There's a country … Continue reading March Meeting: Competition Draft At Rorschach! →
by Viginesh Sankararaman4 viewsclub-meetinghomebrewtoronto - news
February Meeting: At Rainhard!
Location: Rainhard Brewing CoDate: Monday February 9th, 2026Time: 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM ET I hope everyone crushed their January fitness goals. Between the shoveling and the slip-and-slide walks, we’ve all trained for the winter Olympics! Hopefully, all that fun times is behind us and Wiarton Willie got it right! For our February club meeting, we're going to be back at … Continue reading February Meeting: At Rainhard! →
by Viginesh Sankararaman4 viewsclub-meetinghomebrewtoronto - news
January Meeting: Water Chemistry with Eric Cousineau!
Location: Rorschach Brewing Co.Date: Monday January 12th, 2026Time: 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM ET Water: You've drank it, you've swam in it, heck, some of you have probably even BATHED in it (at some point in the distant past). But did you know you could BREW WITH IT TOO?! It's time for our annual January tradition … Continue reading January Meeting: Water Chemistry with Eric Cousineau! →
by Viginesh Sankararaman4 viewsclub-meetinghomebrewtoronto - news
GTA Brews Survey 2026 - Now Open!
Help us make the club better! Our club survey is now accepting submissions from now until 12pm Noon February 28th. We use the results of this survey each year to help inform the direction of the club and identify areas of strength and opportunities to improve. Your opinions really matter! Insight from previous surveys have kicked … Continue reading GTA Brews Survey 2026 - Now Open! →
by Eric Cousineau4 viewssurveyhomebrewhomebrewclub - news
Morana: Tmave's Birthday in America
This Thursday is the 15th anniversary of the day I spent at Devils Backbone Basecamp brewing the first ever batch of Morana , a Czech style dark lager that I designed for them. I had spent the previous months diving into archives, emailing with multiple brewers, and beer experts, in various languages - English, German, Czech, and Slovak - to learn everything I could about a family of beers that at the time only consisted of about 5% of Czech beer production. Obviously, having only fairly recently decamped from Prague to Virginia, I was also relying on my own remembrances of beers that I had got a taste for in the last couple of years there, when I moved beyond the realms of Gambrinus, Staropramen, and Velkopopovivký Kozel. My go-to dark lagers at the time were brewed by Kout na Šumavě and available at the fantastic U Slovanské lipy , but it was the 14° version that I was using as my model for Morana. They also had an 18° that as a 0.3l malé pivo made for a wonderful nightcap. Back in 2
by noreply@blogger.com (Alistair Reece)4 viewshomebrewmoranamorana-dark-lagertmavewafflings - news
Washing/Rinsing Yeast – How to Harvest and Reuse Brewing Yeast
This week I take a look at how you can harvest and reuse brewing yeast from one batch to pitch
by Brad Smith4 viewshomebrewingbeerbrewingharvestinghomebrewreusing - news
Haus Lagerbier Update
In the very first post on Fuggled this year, I wrote about my main homebrew project for 2025, namely to take my many, many years of lager drinking, my fewer years of experience brewing my own beers, and come up with a beer that would be my "house" lager. I have named it, somewhat unimaginatively I am sure, Haus Lagerbier. The aim is to have something I brew 4 times a year, on the first Saturday of each quarter, to compliment in many ways my house best bitter, a brewday that I could probably do in my sleep. For this year, I wanted to dial in my preferred yeast strain before messing with hops and malt, etc. As such, batch 1 was brewing using the near ubiquitous 34/70, while batch 2 switched to S-189, which is a strain from Switzerland. Batch 1 went on tap in March, and looked like this in the late winter sun... I was most remiss with Batch 1 in that I didn't take the time to sit down and really analyse it with my modified Cyclops set up. A fact likely due to the fact that it tasted good
by noreply@blogger.com (Alistair Reece)4 viewshaus-lagerbierhomebrewlager-brewing - news
Hop to Murphy & Rude Mother
I don't really post all that often on here about my homebrew, or at least not as often as I actually brew beer in my garage. I am more likely to post pictures of grains, hops, and packets of yeast on my main Instagram account , I have a separate one for my book, " Virginia Cider: A Scrumptious History ", if cider is more your thing... Since the twins have reached an age where they don't need constant oversight, I have been able to find the necessary time to myself to brew. Kid related side, I popped into Selvedge last Friday and the bar staff made a point of thanking me for the fact that when my kids are in the taproom they are impeccably well behaved. We had been in for lunch and a pint the previous weekend and there were kids roaming the taproom unsupervised, which I know is a pet annoyance for many, and I fully understand that. In my world it is one thing to be a "family friendly pub/taproom/whatever you want to call it" but it is incumbent on families to likewise be pub/taproom/wha
by noreply@blogger.com (Alistair Reece)4 viewsgreenmont-hopshomebrewmurphy-rude - news
The Session - Best at Home
This month's iteration of The Session is being hosted by Ray and Jess over at Boak and Bailey, and the theme they have presented us with is: "What's the best beer you can drink at home right now?" Until Mrs V and I decided to encumber the universe with children, the vast majority of our drinking was not done at home. We had several regular haunts to sit and have a pint or two; whether the original Three Notch'd Brewery tasting room, Beer Run, or even the bar at Whole Foods - seriously, at one point it was social central as we invariably ran into folks we knew and so another pint was had. We still do a fair amount of our drinking outside the home, often at Selvedge, Patch, or still Beer Run. Even though we used to drink mostly at taprooms or pubs, I always had a very well stocked cellar, often including lots of my own homebrew, but going out was the norm. Times however have been a'changing, and drinking at home has become almost the default for various reasons that I am not going to bot
by noreply@blogger.com (Alistair Reece)4 viewsbest-bitterhomebrewthe-sessionwafflings