I've created a diagram which allows you to quickly choose a substitute hop variety when the one in your recipe is not available.
There are many varieties of hops. Now imagine you have a beer recipe which calls for--say--Bramling Cross hops. You go to your local home brewing store and find they do not have Bramling Cross hops. How do you quickly choose a good substitution?
The store is coming along, and hope to open our doors very soon. I have been busy stocking the shelves, learning to use a POS (Point of Sale), pricing inventory, talking to vendors, and the list goes on. This has been a big jump into the business world for someone who used to be a physical therapist. I am having a lot of fun doing it, wondering how I manage it all with Adria (my one year old) running around the store.
Wanted to put up a Help Wanted message. I am looking for an employee to work part time in the store. If interested or know someone who is please send a resume to:
Hello this is Jocelyn. I will be writing a blog here on homebrewexchange.net about our new store and how the opening process is going. To receive updates as I write them, you have two options:
There is nothing quite like freshly made cheese. Cheeses such as Queso Blanco, Paneer, or Ricotta are a very easy introduction to homemade cheese. These cheeses don't actually require fermentation, and so the preparation is quick and foolproof.
We recently made some Queso Blanco with a kit from Urban Cheesecraft.
Gruit (or sometimes grut) is an old-fashioned herb mixture used for bittering and flavoring beer, popular before the extensive use of hops. Gruit or grut ale may also refer to the beverage produced using gruit. Gruit was a combination of herbs, traditionally consisting of...
Here are some very useful sites for brewing beer and wine at home.
I will be making some changes to the way beer recipes are recorded. For instance, I am going to change the "beer style" field to use official BJCP styles.
Some other ideas I'd like to implement:
Does anyone have any other suggestions about how homebrew recipes should be entered or displayed?
