What Is Beer Yeast?People have not always used brewer’s yeast to make beer. The Vikings used the family brewing sticks to stir the wort. In Germany, the Reinheitsgebot, a Beer Purity Law of 1516, listed the hops, malt, and water as allowable ingredients for brewing. It was changed after a century wh

If you are really passionate about homebrewing and want to consider starting your own business, I offer an overview on how to get started with your own microbrewery.There are two types, brewpubs and microbreweries. A brewpub is smaller, perhaps 3-7 barrels (1 US barrel equals 31 gallons). A microbr

LagersCrisp, clean, refined. The perfect balance of malt and hop. By definition, a lager is a beer made with bottom-fermenting yeast that prefer to work at a cooler, slower pace. Think: Pilsner, Oktoberfest, the coveted Bocks brewed by German monks for centuries. Of course, most homebrewers begin wi