Revision as of 23:39, 8 December 2009

Welcome to Braukaiser.com. This site is dedicated to brewing science and topics that are mostly related to brewing German style beers and it is not intended to be a complete reference for the home brewing process. It is a rather loose collection of various articles.

Philosophy

I enjoy the scientific and technological aspects brewing, which shows in the articles, and want to promote a better understanding of them as well as introduce the advanced brewer to various brewing techniques. Being an engineer I like to know what is happening and how I can control the final product and fix problems when they arise. Despite what many readers would think, I'm a fairly relaxed brewer. Some of that relaxation comes from knowing the process and knowing where attention is necessary and where not.

For questions and suggestions contact kai at braukaiser dot com

More recent articles on this site use symbols on the right margins to indicate the type of content and allow readers to skip possibly uninteresting or complex part

	Brewing Basics: The building blocks stand for basic stuff that is important for the understanding of further discussions and elaborations.
	How Things Work: the cogs mark sections that detail how a particular process woks
	Practical Brewing Advice: The pot stands for practical brewing advice that will help you in home brewing. Oftentimes a conclusion that is drawn from preceding, more complex, content.
	Geeky Stuff: The test tube stands for geeky content. Something that is cool to know but has only little importance in practical home brewing.

What’s New

Dec 2009 - added At home water testing
Oct 2009 - Published The effect of brewing water and grist composition on the pH of the mash
Sep 2009 - Released How pH affects brewing
Sep 2009 - The content on braukaiser.com is now licended under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license.
Sep 2009 - Released An Overview of pH
Jun 2009 - Added the infusion version of the Hochkurz mash to Infusion Mashing
Mar 2009 - Created the Efficiency Analysis Spreadsheet
Mar 2009 - Added two articles on historic brewing : German Brewing between 1850 and 1900 Malting and Wort Production, Fermentation and Beer
Feb 2009 - Complete review of all older articles. Some of them littered with typos and other language errors. The work is ongoing.
Jan 2009 – Added the article about Drauflassen
Jan 2009 – Added the Kompensatorzapfhahn article
Dec 2008 – The first part of The Science of Mashing has been released. This series of articles is more detailed and replaces the The Theory of Mashing