How to Brew



Resources for Homebrewing

Welcome to the How to Brew page for DC Homebrewers. Below will be a catch all for articles and blog posts from and for members on the site. I hope that advanced homebrewers in the club will contribute advice and how-to's for this page and we will try to make it a resource center for our brewing knowledgebase.


Here are a few useful homebrew sites that will help get you started:

  • Brewing Techniques Magazine It's a little random, but its a great old magazine from the 90's with a number of useful articles put online for posterity. Lots of style articles!
  • HomebrewTalk Keith recommended this site. It's a really active forum with lots of homebrewing advice. You can probably find a lot of info already posted in the search, or post any questions you have to the forum. --Just be sure to come back here and share any knowledge you found out!
  • All About Beer's homebrewing section -Not the most updated, but a few interesting articles here.





Kölsch Style Ale

Submitted by mdoczkat on Tue, 03/25/2008 - 11:49.

This recipe, the same recipe used for yesterday's meeting (3/24/2008), was given to me by my dad. It is a traditional Kölsch style recipe. For those of you who may not know, Kölsch style beer is a clear ale with a "straw-yellow" hue with prominent hop levels (but not so much as available in typical German pilsener beers) that is a specialty of Köln (or Cologne), Germany. I will try to describe the standard process of making this beer, and the compromises and ranges that have produced an acceptable home-brew product. I do not have the all-grain conversion list for the recipe, but it is simple enough that conversion should be easy enough to figure out on your own (probably pilsener malt). This recipe is great for a novice home-brewer because of its simplicity.

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How to Brew - Beginner's Instructions

This article is a little bit of a work in progress. We will add more pictures of the steps, expand it, cut it down, add links, and other stuff as we develop the tutorials on the site. We can also get into more depth on some of the subjects in other articles and in our Advanced Brewing section. For now, this is to get started.

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