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Best Substitutes for Carapils Malt in Extract Kits

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Best Substitutes for Carapils Malt in Extract Kits

If you’re brewing with an extract kit and it calls for Carapils malt—but you don’t have any on hand—don’t worry. There are several great substitutes that can achieve similar effects in your homebrew, ...

Jul 16, 2025

The Best Hops for Hazy IPAs

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The Best Hops for Hazy IPAs

If you're chasing that signature hazy, juicy, aromatic IPA flavor in your next homebrew, hop selection is critical. While the grain bill and yeast do their part, it's the hops that deliver the punchy ...

Jul 15, 2025

A RECIPE FOR DELICIOUSNESS USING FRESH HOPS: WET HOPPED PALE ALE

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A RECIPE FOR DELICIOUSNESS USING FRESH HOPS: WET HOPPED PALE ALE

Harvest time is here, and hop cones are plentiful on the vine! Wet, fresh hops are a bit of a different beast than commercially-available pellet whole hop cones. Their water content adds to their weig...

Aug 12, 2021

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIQUID YEAST AND DRY YEAST

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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIQUID YEAST AND DRY YEAST

Traditionally, there have been more yeast strains available to homebrewers as liquid strains than dry, so you were able to get a more specific flavor profile from a liquid yeast strain than a dry one....

May 25, 2021

VIKING #YEASTSCREAMCONTEST

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VIKING #YEASTSCREAMCONTEST

Here at Great Fermentations, we've brewed a ton of beer and have always added yeast to our wort, placed the airlock, and called it a day. WHO KNEW though that we were missing a crucial step in this pr...

Jan 11, 2021

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NEW ENGLAND IPA BREWING MUSTS: THE RIGHT WATER PROFILE AND MINIMIZING OXYGEN

Recently we launched an exciting new beer kit here at Great Fermentations - Dumpster Fire IPA. It is a New England Style hazy & juicy IPA and is our biggest and most ambitious IPA to date. As an aside...

Dec 24, 2020

BREWING WITH SMOKED MALT

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BREWING WITH SMOKED MALT

By Lindsay Perdue So what would you do with Smoked Malts? Good question. Over here at Great Fermentations, we are getting excited about brewing with smoked malts. If you haven't taken stock of our off...

Dec 4, 2020

is star san foam bad for my homebrew?

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is star san foam bad for my homebrew?

Have you ever used Star San for sanitizing your brewing equipment? If you have, then you know it is an effective sanitizer AND that it also has the propensity to foam. Actually, the last part would be...

Apr 24, 2019

GLASS VS PLASTIC: ARE GLASS CARBOYS REALLY BETTER THAN PLASTIC?

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GLASS VS PLASTIC: ARE GLASS CARBOYS REALLY BETTER THAN PLASTIC?

This is one of the topics we tackle quite a lot at Great Fermentations. Glass vs plastic carboys: which one is better? Glass carboys are impermeable to oxygen, easy to clean, don't scratch, and lasts ...

Apr 3, 2019

BREAK FREE AND CREATE YOUR OWN BEER STYLE

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BREAK FREE AND CREATE YOUR OWN BEER STYLE

Hello Fermentation-ists! Bryan here from Great Fermentations. I was recently working on our annual Fall Newsletter for 2018 , and I found myself stuck on what to write. At the time of writing the news...

Oct 23, 2018

5 BENEFITS TO SWITCHING FROM EXTRACT TO ALL GRAIN BREWING WITH BREW IN A BAG

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5 BENEFITS TO SWITCHING FROM EXTRACT TO ALL GRAIN BREWING WITH BREW IN A BAG

Hello everybody! Wes here. Our customer and friend, Trey, made the following blog post for us about switching from extract to all grain brewing using the Brew in a Bag (BIAB) technique. Check it out b...

Sep 18, 2018

AFTERBURNER PEPPER ALE RECIPE

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AFTERBURNER PEPPER ALE RECIPE

Greetings, and welcome to another Recipe of the Month blog post! This month, we will be looking at making a pepper ale with just a little heat on the back end that I like to call Afterburner Pepper Al...

Oct 16, 2017

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