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On their website, Omega states Pils 1 is the H(house?) strain for the famous Czech brewery(Urquell). For Pils 2 it is essentially the same first sentence but the call it the "D" strain. Anyone have any insight into what this means or what it is supposed to be an approximation of?

This weekend I plan to make a belgian single/patersbier, a low abv belgian trappist style beer. My recipe is pretty simple 80% pilsner like 15% torrified wheat, 5% caravienne. My question is about how to treat the yeast when making a lower abv beer, specifically how to get a good expression...

I've been brewing all grain beers for a few years now, and for a while have been focusing on making lighter colored beers for some reason. I have made a few darker ones, a brown ale, black ipa, dunkelweizen, and an imperial stout. One of the last beers I made was a robust porter that I was...

I know there is a ton of information on different methods for simulating a bourbon barrel aged beer at the home brew level without having an actual barrel, but does anyone around have experience aging something in the same fashion (with cubes or spirals) for wine aging. Some of my recent...

anyone ever tried to brew something like this? not a dunkel weisse, more of a wheat beer with a faint roast character and a big chocolate flavor together with the banana yeast coming through. Seems like it would be a good combo in theory but Im not sure how to go about coming up with a recipe...

Just tapped a pale ale I made with a friend earlier this week, and while it tastes delicious as it is, I wish the malt character was a little bit more pronounced. I dont want a sweet malty beer, more like a fresh grain taste or toast kind of taste that I see in a lot of pale ales. Ive thought...

So I'm about 2 and a half weeks in to fermenting an american brown ale. I used wlp001 as the yeast because I was trying to stay away from the british esters. It is still in primary but the gravity hasnt dropped in the last 5 days, its steady at 1.013. Right now its exhibiting a slight green...

I have been lurking on this site for a long time and have learned so much from its contributors over the last few months when I really discovered it. I've been home brewing at various levels of seriousness for about 5 years but just really started brewing regularly and making my own recipes...