This summer we dropped a trio of crushable beers - have you tried them yet? 🇩🇪 Kölsch - clean, crisp & crushable. A German ale that drinks like a lager! 🍊 Passion Orange Guava Wheat - made with real fruit puree & Citra hops! ☁️ Hazy Session IPA - 4.5% ABV with tropical hop character from Azacca, El Dorado & Cashmere! All three new beer making kits are available in 1 or 5 gallon volumes. #homebrewing #kolsch #brewityourself
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Sep 13, 2025Instagram
Liquid Lore Episode 16: Saison Yeast Is an Anomaly Welcome to “Liquid Lore,” a weekly series where we dive into homebrewing history and fermentation fun facts. Saison yeast shouldn’t work the way it does. It ferments hot, producing spicy phenolics without off-flavors. It’s also highly attenuative, chewing through nearly everything for a bone-dry finish—a true outlier in brewing yeast. Have you brewed with saison yeast before? #saisonbeer #beerfacts #beerhistory #saison
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Sep 12, 2025Instagram
Let’s play desert island…yeast edition. What are you choosing? #homebrewlife
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Sep 10, 2025Instagram
Start Home Brewing Hard Cider 🍺
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Allow me to reintroduce myself. My name is BC 🍻 You may know me as the face of Craft a Brew on social media. But I’ve been homebrewing since 2010, and YouTube-ing since 2018. I’ve written a book on making mead and host one of the largest mead making competitions in the world. Together, Craft a Brew and I are here to help you lean how to ferment your favorite beverages at home. You can find longer format, deep dives on our YouTube. AND I answer your questions every week on Instagram via our Homebrew Helpline AMA. What do you want to learn? What do you want to see us brew and share here? Drop a comment and let us know! #homebrewlife #homebrewing
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Sep 9, 2025Instagram
Brew Your Own Hard Cider
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Homebrew school is in session over on YouTube! We dive deep into topics like boosting ABV, selecting yeast, balancing acids & more. Recently, we covered all the ways to boost ABV. Here are the top 3 ingredients for higher alcohol wines: 1. Grape juice concentrate (white or concord) - does add acid, so consider balancing by backsweetning post-fermentation. 2. Table Sugar - provides a clean, neutral flavor that ferments out completely. 3. Honey - a wine made with honey is also called a Pyment. This does thin the body, so consider adding tannin or backsweetening for balance. #homemadewine #homewinemaking
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Sep 8, 2025Instagram
We like to get weird here on Instagram with experimental fermentations. If you’re craving some more practical & educational content - join us over on YouTube! Twice a month we take a deep dive into topics to help you brew better beers and wines. Recently, we covered all the ways to boost ABV in beers, meads, wines & ciders. Here are our top 3 ways to amp up ABV in your next beer: 1. Brewers Crystals - add ABV without thinning the body or changing the flavor. 2. Dry Malt Extract - added fermentable sugar with a clean malty character. 3. Table Sugar or Honey - these add ABV, but tend to thin and dry the finished beer. #homebrewer #homebrewlife
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Sep 6, 2025Instagram
I’ve got so many fermentations happening in my brew lab. It got me thinking…what if I made Mead with a Kombucha SCOBY? Here goes nothing! Ingredients: - 1 SCOBY - 1 lb Wildflower Honey - 11g Ale Yeast - Water to reach 1 gallon The SCOBY should provide acidity, so I skipped any additions of Wine Tannin or balancing acids (like Malic or Citric Acid). Honestly…how do you think this is going to turn out? #kombuchabrewing #mead #honeywine #meadmaking
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Sep 6, 2025Instagram
Liquid Lore Episode 15: War Beer Welcome to “Liquid Lore,” a weekly series where we dive into homebrewing history and fermentation fun facts. In the 19th century, mobile beer units supplied lager to troops at the front lines. Beer wasn’t just refreshing—it was strategic, planned as part of wartime logistics. Did you know beer once marched into battle? #beerhistory
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Sep 5, 2025Instagram
Let’s make a Java Monster Coffee Mead ☕️ A coffee mead is called a Coffeemel. We’re making a very unconventional Coffeemel with Java Monster energy drinks. What you’ll need: 2lb Macadamia Nut honey 7 cans of Java Monster 2 packets of Premier Blanc Wine Yeast Yeast Nutrient (we’re using our propriety Mead Yeast Nutrient Blend) How do you think this one will turn out? #monsterenergy #monsterenergydrink #javamonster #mead #meadmaking #honeywine #coffeemel #meadmaker
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Sep 4, 2025Instagram
It’s time to taste our homemade ginger beer! This recipe uses yeast instead of a ginger bug. It’s perfect for anyone who doesn’t have time to grow and feed a ginger bug. It’s spicy and slightly sweet (thanks to non-fermentable erythritol) - we rate it GREAT! Watch us make this in Part 1 - the video is pinned in our highlights. #gingerbeer #gingerdrink #homebrewer #homebrewery
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Sep 2, 2025Instagram
If you see something you like, get it while it’s on sale! 15% OFF ends @ midnight tonight. After that, everything’s back to full price 🍺 Our top sale picks: 🎃 Seasonal pumpkin beers 🍺 NEW Hazy Session IPA 🍯 Spiced Mead Kit (serve hot or chilled) 🍎 Hard Cider Kit (makes 3 batches)
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Sep 1, 2025Instagram
You’ve probably seen *that* purple gin brand at the liquor store 👀 Save your money, because you can DIY purple gin at home using butterfly pea flowers! In this video, we’re infusing our own vodka with our Botanical Gin Kit. If you have a favorite gin brand, just skip to step 4 to turn it purple. Step 1: Infuse 750 mL vodka with juniper for 24 hours. Step 2: Add botanical blend and infuse for 12 hours. This includes lemon peel, rosehips, coriander, cardamom, lavender & more. Step 3: Use the included filter & funnel to strain out the solids into a large mason jar. Step 4: To turn the entire batch purple, add 0.5 Oz butterfly pea flowers to the mason jar and let infuse for 10 minutes. Step 5: Use the filter & funnel to strain out the solids and transfer the gin into the included corked bottles. #gin #purplegin #empressgin #butterflypeaflower #butterflypea
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Aug 31, 2025Instagram
15% OFF ends tomorrow! Stock up on homebrew supplies and fermentation kits during our Labor Day Sale & enjoy free shipping over $99 🍻 Code LD15 unlocks 15% off site-wide!
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Aug 31, 2025Instagram
Don’t wait to shop our Labor Day Sale - no restocks this weekend! Save on seasonal pumpkin beer kits, our brand new Hazy Session IPA, brew kettles, bottles & so many more homebrew supplies site-wide 🍻
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Aug 30, 2025Instagram
Liquid Lore Episode 14: Rice Lagers Welcome to “Liquid Lore,” a weekly series where we dive into homebrewing history and fermentation fun facts. In the U.S., rice is seen as a cheap filler in mass-market beer. But in Japan, rice lagers are an art form. Crisp, dry, and sake-like, rice boosts fermentability for higher ABV and a clean finish—perfect for summer. Would you try brewing a rice lager at home? #beerhistory #beerfacts
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Aug 29, 2025Instagram
This could be you if you shop our LABOR DAY SALE! 15% off site-wide now through Monday Sept. 1 with code LD15
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Aug 29, 2025Instagram
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