Archive for the ‘Home Brewing’ Category
Tell your US House representative to join the Small Brewers Caucus
Support Your Local Brewery has sent out an “Action Alert” asking all craft beer enthusiasts (that’s you!) to contact your representative in the US House and ask that he or she join the Small Brewers Caucus. The purpose of the caucus is “gain a better understanding of all aspects of small, amateur and professional craft [...]
Make your own beer labels and cartons
If you brew and bottle your own beer, you should check out this tutorial on making custom labels and 6-pack cartons. It’s geared towards a Fathers Day gift but you could make any design you want. via Make
Big Brew Day 2009
Tomorrow, May 2, 2009, is Big Brew Day. In 1988, May 7 was announced before Congress as National Homebrew Day. The American Homebrewers Association created Big Brew as an annual event to celebrate National Homebrew Day not only in the United States, but around the world. Big Brew is held each year on the first [...]
Utah Legalizes Homebrew Beer
Utah one of the lasts states to change law legalizing homebrewing Boulder, CO • March 25, 2009 – Yesterday, Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. of Utah signed into law legislation that makes homebrewing beer legal. The “Exemption for Alcoholic Beverage Manufacturing License” was sponsored by Representative Christine A. Johnson and made Utah the 46th state [...]
Meet DJ from www.fermentarium.com
Since starting Beer Utopia I have met a lot of great people in the beer world, and twitter has now let me connect with some other beer bloggers devoted to good beer. Meet DJ, he is an avid home brewer and runs the beer site www.fermentarium.com 1) tell us a little bit about yourself? I’m [...]
Making home brew clones of commercial beers
Most home brewers like to experiment with recipes, trying to get a brew just right. Often the standard to which we strive is that of commercially brewed beers. When we taste a really great beer we think, “I wonder if I could brew this?” But how do you go about copying, or cloning, a commercial [...]
Mulled beer an aid to healthy living
So as the days get colder I always joke that it is great beer drinking weather since your beer stays cold. But sitting here drinking my morning cup of joe looking at one of my favorite sites lifehacker.com I ran across this story about mulled beer. Mulled beer is hot spiced beer. It was all [...]
University offers beer brewing class
The University of Wisconsin will offer a class in home brewing next semester and not surprisingly, students are scrambling to sign up. I wish there had a home brewing class when I was in college. Of course Wisconsin has a long history of brewing beer, especially Milwaukee. This may or may not have anything to [...]
Basic Brewing Brewer’s Logbook
So, in what has now become a quest to get my first home brew done, I have been doing lots of reading and research. Twitter and the Craft Brewing population therein have been essential to that. One twitter user has something the has captured my interest strongly with this post “- basicbrewing Brewer’s Logbooks are [...]
Mr. Beer Home Brewery part 3: Bottling
Mr. Beer really comes through with making this easy. After brewing my first batch of beer and two weeks of waiting patiently for it to ferment in the Mr. beer keg, I couldn’t wait to bottle it up. Just to recap, I have half the no-rinse sanitizer left over and the gallon spring water jug [...]



