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The Lager Waiting Game: Is It Worth the Patience?

Brewing lagers takes a long time, from weeks up to potentially several months. However, with new brewing techniques, that time can be cut down to a couple weeks. However, does shortening the lagering impact the beer?

Brandon Copeland

Feb 09, 2025

The Case for Underpitching Yeast: Foolish or Genius?

The advice across the board is generally simple; don't underpitch yeast. If anything, the advice is to overpitch your yeast just in case, so you have more than enough to complete fermentation. Therefore, when would you ever underpitch intentionally?

Brandon Copeland

Feb 02, 2025

The Art of Water Chemistry: Balancing Your Brew’s Backbone

Water might be the most overlooked ingredient in brewing, but it plays a crucial role in shaping your beer’s flavor, mouthfeel, and balance. From sulfate-heavy IPAs to chloride-rich stouts, understanding water chemistry can take your homebrew to the next level—or is it just another layer of complexity?

Brandon Copeland

Jan 26, 2025

Wild Yeast Harvesting: Brewing With Your Backyard’s Microbial Magic

There is wild yeast everywhere around us, and it can be captured and used to ferment beer. It's a risky undertaking, because you never know what you're going to get leading to unpredictable results.

Brandon Copeland

Jan 19, 2025

Hop Creep: A Hidden Timebomb in Your Hazy IPA’s?

When brewing big hazy beers with dry hop additions, you may experience hop creep, which causes secondary fermentations that could cause varying unwanted effects in your beer.

Brandon Copeland

Jan 12, 2025

The Mystery of Yeast Blending: Are Two Strains Better Than One?

As homebrewers, we are always looking to push the envelope and create something new. One way to achieve that is to go beyond the yeast on the market by blending two together.

Brandon Copeland

Jan 05, 2025

The Growing Popularity of Dry January

As reducing alcohol intake becomes more and more mainstream, participating in Dry January is more popular than ever.

Brandon Copeland

Dec 29, 2024

Here's To The Best Yeasts of 2024

Yeast is critical to the success of a homebrew - without it, you wouldn't have any alcohol in your beer. We will break down the 10 most used yeasts of 2024.

Brandon Copeland

Dec 22, 2024

For the Love of the Best Hops 2024

Hops are undoubtedly the favorite brewing ingredient for most homebrewers - with just one inhale, you can imagine the flavor and the nose that your future beer will have. However, which hops are the most sought after?

Brandon Copeland

Dec 15, 2024

Brewing Beer and Coding - 2024 Wrapped

No we are not Spotify, but this is our version of a 2024 Wrapped homebrewing stye, with a look inside of what we have been doing at Brewgr this past year.

Brandon Copeland