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After successfully assembling and wiring my new Electric Brewing system it was time to make my first beer with it. The style I chose was a Robust Porter as I have previously had success with a Coffee Porter and a Bourbon Coffee Porter so this time I wanted to try a basic BJCP style and focus on getting to grips with using Electric instead of Propane as an energy source and also find out what Brew In A Bag (BIAB) was like process wise as opposed to infusion mashing with my old three-tier Sanke keg based system.

Recently I was fortunate enough to spend the day with a fellow homebrewer from my local club, the Black Hops Unit of Centre County, at a commercial brewery located 90 minutes due east of State College in the town of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. Turkey Hill Brewing is located next to the Inn at Turkey Hill and the Brewmaster is Donny Abraczinskas.

In this article I will run through the wiring and assembly of my new 240 volt Brew-Boss BIAB electric brewing system - this will include looking at GFCI options.

Last weekend we attended a couple of the numerous local Oktoberfest events that were being held in the State College area. These were the Tussey Mountain Oktoberfest and Olde New York Oktoberfest.

Beer Infinity has written a guest article on Modern Man Jack titled "Is Craft Beer more than a 'hop bomb' IPA?".

Problems getting the right levels of carbonation in your homebrewed beer? Do you bottle condition and find that sometimes your beer is flat or under carbonated or becomes over carbonated? Force carbonate your beer and find that it foams too much so you feel like you waste more than actually ends up in bottles?

500 Tips & Recipes for Making Great Beer by Ted Bruning & Nigel Sadler. Published by The Taunton Press. Priced at $21.95. Available in Hardcover.

In this last article on Electric Brewing we are going to see how each of the options meet our initial requirements and pull together some of the findings into a summary.

In the fourth part of this series of articles on investigating how viable electric brewing is we take a look at the options available for converting our existing 3-tier Sanke-keg based propane system.

In the third part of this series of articles on investigating how viable electric brewing is we take a look at RIMS-based systems which utilize direct heat during recirculation to maintain the mash temperature.