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I recently received some Keg & Carboy Cleaning Tablets to try whilst homebrewing and thought I would post an article about my initial experience.

So what is in a beer glass? Hopefully beer! Have you ever thought about the varying designs of different beer glasses and what they do? Check out the infographic from Hangover Revivol to learn your snifter from your stein with The Ultimate Beer Glass Guide.

Previously in this series of articles on How to brew different Styles of Beer? we covered Brewing a Strong Bitter, this time the Beer Style comes from Category 15: 'Irish Beer' in the BJCP 2014 Guidelines and is the style of an Irish Red Ale.

Whilst in the UK over the Christmas holiday period I had the chance to meet up with a brewer from my hometown area in the North-East of England. Andrew Smith is the owner of The Gainford Beer Cooperative which began life in 2013.

During the summer of 2011 we visited Southern Tier Brewing Company who are located in Jamestown, NY, near Lake Chautauqua as we have always been big fans of their beers such as 2XStout, Crème Brûlée, Mokah, Choklat, and Pumking. We knew they were due to expand their operation shortly after our visit so decided what better way to follow-up Thanksgiving than a long weekend back to western New York.

Previously in this series of articles on How to brew different Styles of Beer? we covered Brewing an American Porter, this time the Beer Style comes from Category 11: 'English Bitters' in the BJCP 2014 Guidelines and is the style of a Strong Bitter.

Ever wondered what the difference is between a Vienna and Munich malt, American 2-row Pale and Maris Otter malt, perhaps even Chocolate and Roasted malt? Like with many homebrewers so have I and as all the books I have read, podcasts I have listened to, and seminars I have attended suggest we should taste our ingredients and learn more about them to help better understand how they impact the beers that we brew I decided it was time to get to work on this.

The first featured Beer Style in this series of articles on How to brew different Styles of Beer? comes from Category 20: 'American Porter and Stout' in the BJCP 2014 Guidelines and is the Style of an American Porter.

At the weekend we stayed in Detroit for a few days so took the opportunity to check out a couple of breweries in the Downtown area. We visited Detroit Beer Co. and Atwater Brewery.

Early 2014 I wrote a series of articles based on the BJCP 2008 Style Guidelines looking at how each Category of beers was broken down into one or more Styles. In this series of articles I will be looking at a variety of different Beer Styles from a Homebrewing perspective and taken from the BJCP 2014 Guidelines. I will look at the Background, Guidelines, Ingredients, Recipes and Process plus brew a batch then examine the Outcome.