Homebrewing

Our new Honey Wheat kit is in stock and available online and in store. It's a refreshing wheat ale for those sun soaked days of summer! This is a Bavarian style wheat beer with very little bitterness and tasty honey notes. Buy Now Shop Extract Beer Kits...

If you are a brewer who brews to style, you'll be happy to know that the 2015 update to the BJCP (Beer Judge Certification Program) Style Guidelines has been released. Some big changes including a stand alone IPA category, a new clone brews category and a major sour category expansion. Click here...

Well that didn't take long! Hop rhizomes poking through the ground are a true sign of the season. Our pre-ordered rhizomes came in a little over a week ago and we promptly planted a few of these guys at our house in Saginaw, Michigan. A few days of warm, sunny weather is all it took for them to ...

We are happy to announce that we now stock the Michigan made Barley Crusher Grain Mills! The "Home Brewer's Best Friend" has proven to be just that. The Barley Crusher is a high quality grain mill constructed using materials that will last you a lifetime. Barley Crusher - 7 lb Hopper Barley ...

We've updated our brewing log to better assist in recording your brewing details. Click on the image below to download the latest version. ...

We are happy to announce the latest addition to our online brewing tools, a Priming Sugar Calculator! To ensure proper carbonation (and no bottle bombs!) it is essential that you add the correct amount of sugar at bottling. This calculator will allow you to select a particular beer style, enter a fe...

Join us on October 13th for a brewing class at the Midland Center for the Arts. This is perfect for those looking to get into brewing. We will be on hand to answer questions. $12 per person which includes 4 beer samples. Visit http://www.mcfta.org/event/science-cafes/e19446/ for more details. Explo...

Specific Gravity or Gravity, is a measure of the amount of sugar in your wort. Water has a Gravity of 1.000 so when you add sugar via malt extract or grain it rises up to greater than 1.000. Original Gravity, often referred to as OG, is the Specific Gravity you measure once your wort has chilled an...

A phrase famously coined by Charlie Papazian in The Complete Joy of Homebrewing. As a homebrewer, always keep this in mind. ...

We just added a new Hydrometer Temperature Adjustment Calculator to help assist you on your brew days! I know there are many calculators out there but being a developer and a brewer, I just couldn't help but write my own. This is the first of many tools that we plan on incorporating into the site. ...