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Understanding Wheat in Beer June 2015 By: Jason Butler First, how is wheat different than barley? Wheat has higher protein levels than barley and those proteins are different, mostly glutens. [...]

By: Brian Pramov Adding fruit to your beer is used to add complexity to your brews.  With the different styles of beer and  fruits available, the sky is the limit with ideas.  Warmer months are [...]

Should I Secondary Ferment my Homebrew? May 2015, Eric Seufert Secondary fermentation is not really fermentation at all but conditioning the beer in a new vessel.  Typically a brewer makes 5 [...]

Recipe Tips: Summertime brews May 2015, Jason Butler With the 4th of July only 8 weeks away it’s time to start making your summertime brews. Living in Colorado most people spend plenty of time [...]

Are You Pitching Enough Yeast? Maybe.  Professional brewers use certain pitch rates for styles and different strains.  Let’s get the geeky calculation out of the way.  For an ale, brewers [...]

Are you ready for new ways to tweak your favorite homebrew recipe? Once you’ve tested the affects of playing with your mash and fermentation temperatures, try a few more ways to play with an old [...]

When we just start out, it’s easiest to follow beer recipes exactly as they come. But once you’ve been successful with a few of your favorite beers, why not start tweaking your recipes a little. [...]

Most of us here at Castle Rock Homebrew Supply have outgrown the Easter egg hunts, but that doesn’t stop us from firing up the grill and serving up some homebrews and homemade wine and sharing it [...]

If you’re an avid, passionate homebrewer you’ve got your share of spent grain. Instead of throwing it out, take half a day to turn your spent grain into flour, and voilà, a whole new world just [...]

(Cover Photo Credit: Eric Westervelt /NPR) Homebrewers Around the Country Share Their Story A few weeks back I stumbled upon a college percussion professor who succeeded in literally combining [...]