Yeast will have a huge impact on a beer! Without the yeast it will not be a beer, just a sugary brown liquid called wort. The yeast takes over from the mash enzymes and converts the sugars that they produced

Malt - defines a beer! There is a bewildering amount of different malts on the market today but there are some that occur more frequently in beer recipes than others and today I will describe them to you!

The forest floor gets a nice color when the heather starts flowering! Picture taken with my Nexus 5X. I was out in the forest walking with my dog and I found this lovely spot, had to take a photograph!

The fun part, the beer is ready for serving! When the fermentation is ready it is time to either fill the beer into bottles or into a keg. I find it very tedious to clean and fill bottles so I have invested

Fermentation is both exciting an very boring at the same time... FastFerment tank Fermentation is a fascinating topic that can be as easy as just sprinkling a packet of dry beer yeast on top of the wort

First taste!! It is still too young really, but I could not help myself, I had to taste! There is still some yeast swimming around and the hops still taste a little vegetal but I can sense that this beer

This afternoon I will be tasting my Imperial Stout for the first time! I'm so excited, my Imperial Stout is finally ready for tasting after fermenting for two weeks. It showed great promise when I pulled

Finally, it is time to Brew! The end result of a successful brew day and approximately 2 weeks of fermentation will hopefully look similar to the beer above, clear, with a beautiful color and a nice head

Mashing can be a science of it own or very simple! When creating a beer recipe it is important to think about what mashing schedule to use, this is dependent of the beer style, the available equipment

How to create a simple Pale Ale recipe in Beersmith When I want to design a new beer recipe I use the Beersmith software, there are several other softwares available for this but I have found that Beersmith

There are a few ingredients that are absolutely essential for brewing beer!!! Malt is the most important ingredient, otherwise it would not be a beer! There are many different malts available in a plethora

Brewing beer is so easy that anyone can do it! This is the first post about beer brewing that I plan on posting in the coming week. I will describe the ingredients, how to create a recipe, the brew day

Just poured myself a cellar cold wheat beer from my previous brew day! Lots of foam as it should be and a rather acidic taste from the wheat. I have installed four beer taps in our winter garden and the

Things has quieted down in the cellar, the krausen has subsided as the most intense part of the fermentation is over. I have opened the valve between the main tank and the yeast collection bulb so that

There is a lot of activity in my cellar... The Nottingham yeast is doing its job splendidly as usual and there is now a lovely krausen in the Fastferment tank! In Sweden there is a Christmas tradition

Everything went as planned and was just as easy that I had expected! I have pumped the wort into the Fastferment tank and added the Nottingham yeast, I like that strain of yeast for the clean taste and

I thought I would share some notes from my brewing day, today I'm brewing an Imperial Stout! And, if all goes according to plan, it will be one of the easiest brewing days ever for me! I started out with

Enjoying the sun We have seen squirrels running around in the trees in our garden for several years now, always on the move, jumping from branch to branch or running across our lawn. But the other day

Hi All, is it just me or have all images just gone missing? Even my profile fish has gone deeper than ever before and are now nowhere to be seen... No idea to put an image into this post... ;-) Does anyone

Elder flower cider recipe When the elder tree in our garden starts to flower, around midsummer, it is time to make the elder flower cider! This is a tradition that we have kept alive for over 20 years