Dave Carpenter | Craft Beer & Brewing

4 Tips for Spine-Friendly Brewing

Use these tips when moving your wort or beer from Point A to Point B to ensure that Point B isn’t the emergency room.

Brewing with Sugar

Sugar has a time and place in brewing to get you where you want to go.

Clear Beer, Part 2

What about the suspended yeast cells that remain in your beer after fermentation? That’s where post-fermentation finings, or cask finings, enter the picture.

Population Density: A Yeast Wrangling Update

Dave Carpenter provides an update on his spontaneous fermentation experiment.

Clear Beer, Part 1

Use kettle finings to pull proteins from your wort and help produce clearer beer.

4 Reasons to Brew in Small Batches

Small-batch brewing offers some distinct advantages over full-scale brewing.

Black Is the New Black

A guide to stout styles

Which Unit of Measurement Is Best for Brewing?

Whether you’re weighing out specialty grains, calculating pre-boil volume, or timing the mash, measurement is at the heart of brewing.

For Peat’s Sake

Historically accurate or not, I just can’t resist adding a touch of smoked malt to my wee-heavy grist from time to time. Here's a recipe you can try if you feel the same way.

Keep Your Cool

Here are four ideas for keeping your fermentation temperature under control.