There's nothing like having your own brew on tap whenever you want to knock back a cold one.  But what happens when you want to take your suds on [...]

As we know by now, the basic premise of brewing beer is to extract sugar from malted barley and convert those sugars to alcohol through fermentation.  To balance the [...]

The amber ale went into the keg last night after eight days in the secondary fermenter.  The first step I took in transferring the beer was to clean and [...]

Christmas came early this year!  On Friday I got a special delivery: a chrome draft tower with two faucets. This was the final piece that I needed to convert [...]

I've long been a believer that "if one is good, two is better" and that saying is especially applicable when talking about kegs.  You'll remember from It's a Bird, [...]

One of the most important aspects of good health (and the dating scene) is cleanliness.  This is also true of brewing good beer.  When we remove the sugars from [...]

Yesterday, after eight days in the primary fermenter, I took some time to transfer the amber ale into a Glass Carboy for secondary fermentation.  This process will look very [...]

On Monday I wrote about conducting the mash in Do the Mash... The Brewing Mash.  Today we finish the discussion of the Amber Ale brewing session.  When we left [...]

With Thanksgiving weekend just around the corner and winter getting ready to barrel down on San Francisco, I took some time over the weekend to brew a fall classic: American [...]

The last piece of the kegerator puzzle came in the mail yesterday.  No one wants a sticky kegerator top but it's also near impossible to keep the last few [...]