Category: Pro Brewer

Brewers’ Boot Camp

Interested in becoming a brewer? Learn the ins and outs of brewing beer! We’ll be brewing on the 30 barrel system and the Spike Brewing Pilot System. Highlights – Full Day of brewing education – Pilot System & Commercial System – Mill In, Dough In, Mash Rest, Vorlauf, Sparge, Boil, Muck Out, Whirlpool, Knockout/Pitch, Cleanup […]

Art and Bombers: the Creativity of Fan Recipe Submissions, Post #1

This month’s voting round brings some doozies, with ABV up to here. If you could see me, I’m pointing at my Adam’s apple. I should be pointing at my gaping, watering mouth as I gawk at all these gaudy-delicious, high-gravity beer recipes . . .

Spy vs. Spy: IPA vs. Black IPA

Visually of course there’s no mistaking one for the other, the one being, well, black. But you’ll hear even knowledgeable people say they’re the same, other than the color. Blindfold many a craft beer drinker and have them taste an IBA, and very few will guess it’s not an IPA. So then how come . . .

Ph Effect On Mashing Grain

I recently was able to take part in a collaboration brew with a neighboring brewery, which was a lot of fun! We were doing a Berliner Weiss, chockfull of our slow growing, but precocious, strain of Lactobacillus delbruckii to help sour the beer naturally. As a matter of course, we also decided to use acidulated […]

Ph Effect On Mashing Grain

I recently was able to take part in a collaboration brew with a neighboring brewery, which was a lot of fun! We were doing a Berliner Weiss, chockfull of our slow growing, but precocious, strain of Lactobacillus delbruckii to help sour the beer naturally. As a matter of course, we also decided to use acidulated […]