EXPERT KNOWLEDGE BASE
Whether you're brewing your first batch of beer or your 50th, the brewmasters at Northern Brewer have created a complete knowledge base of articles to help you concoct the perfect homebrew!
BREWER'S PICKS
New To Brewing
How to Make Beer: Brewing 101
Are you ready to take the plunge into the incredible world of homebrewing? This comprehensive guide will teach you everything you need to know to make your very first batch of beer. If you can make mac and cheese from a box, you can make beer. So what are you waiting for? Let's brew this!
Wine, Cider, & Mead Making
How to Make Hard Cider
If you are already making beer or make wine at home, the jump to cider making is simple.
Beer Recipes & Ingredients
Smashing Pumpkin Ale: The Perfect Brew for Fall
Clean and sweetly malty, with just enough hop bitterness to balance.
Wine, Cider, & Mead Making
NEW Fruit Winemaking Video
You can make fruit wine at home from fruit puree or fresh/frozen whole fruit. Watch >
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21 HOMEBREWING LESSONS I WISH I’D LEARNED SOONER
Whether it’s something that saves you time, money, or even space in your...
NORTHERN BREWER HOMEBREWING STARTER KIT BUYER GUIDE
Whether you’re looking for yourself or for a friend wanting to get into ...
HOMEBREWING GLOSSARY
Glossary definitions for homebrewing terms from A to Z
BREWING TECHNIQUES
AERATING YOUR WORT
Aerating, or adding oxygen, to your wort is perhaps the easiest way to i...
HOW TO BREW IN A BAG
Brew In A Bag, or as it’s commonly abbreviated BIAB, is an easy homebrew...
HOW TO KETTLE SOUR BEER
Kettle souring is a technique that allows brewers to rapidly sour unferm...
BEER RECIPES & INGREDIENTS
INTRODUCING OMEGA YEAST'S COSMIC PUNCH™: A THIOL-BOOSTING VERSION OF BRITISH V
Cosmic Punch™ (OYL-402) is the first strain released as a part of a Thio...
SAFALE™ BE-134: THE MULTI-PURPOSE SAISON DRY YEAST
The SafAle™ BE-134 is most often presented on forums and magazines as th...
WELCOME SPRING WITH A MAIBOCK
While Oktoberfest may reign as the popular occasion to drink German beer...
BOTTLING & KEGGING
BREW NOW FOR LATER: WHAT BEER STYLES BENEFIT FROM AGING
It’s true that some things get better with age. While many beers are bes...
HOW TO KEG BEER
Want to know how to keg beer? Watch this video and you'll be ready for y...
HOW TO CARBONATE BEER IN BOTTLES AND KEGS
Learn how to carbonate your beer in bottles and kegs using priming sugar...
WINE, CIDER, & MEAD MAKING
COMPARING YEAST STRAINS FOR HARD CIDER
Each year, during fall harvest and apple season, we get asked a lot of q...
EXPLORING DIVERSITY OF CIDER PROFILES THROUGH THE SELECTION OF NEW YEAST STRAINS
Yeast strains have a huge impact on cider profiles, not only in terms of...
HOW TO MAKE MEAD LIKE A VIKING
Drank by Vikings and their Norse Gods, sometimes even referred to as Nec...
KOMBUCHA & BEYOND
HOW TO MAKE HARD SELTZER
At a time when hard seltzer is taking over the world, we thought we'd cr...
HOW TO MAKE BOOZY KOMBUCHA
Give you're kombucha an extra kick and learn how to make alcoholic kombu...
STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS: KOMBUCHA RECIPE
Once you have all the necessary [ingredients and supplies,] you can get ...
BREWER'S NOTES & NEWS
24TH ANNUAL BIG BREW DAY 2021
Go Big Brew or Go Home May 1, 2021 is National Homebrew Day! And what be...
WITCH HUNT: CRAFT BEER’S COVEN
International Women’s Day has been celebrating the social, economic, cul...
TURN YOUR SPENT GRAIN INTO SAVORY, HEART-HEALTHY PRETZELS
Not only does spent grain allow you to reuse your grain, but it also cre...
