HOMEBREW ACADEMY / THE BREW BENCH
Good beer.
Made by you.
Recipes worth brewing. Skills worth learning. A few gloriously unnecessary experiments. Find your next batch and give the fermenter something to do.
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BREW LOG / NEXT BATCH
This space reserved
for your next good idea.
BATCHThe one you haven’t brewed yet.
PLANRead it. Brew it. Take notes.
VERDICTResearch is thirsty work.
Less scrolling. More brewing.
01 / YOUR NEXT BATCH
Start with a beer you’d
actually want to drink.
A manageable first project, a familiar house beer, or a smaller batch. Read the full recipe before buying ingredients; methods and batch sizes vary.
01 / THINK SMALL
Small batch. Big plans. ↗
Explore the one-gallon collection when space and batch size matter.
02 / KEEP IT FAMILIAR
Meet the house blonde ↗
A clean, familiar ale to build your brewing routine around.
03 / TRY A NEW GRAIN
Take the wheat route ↗
An American wheat recipe for a different kind of everyday pour.
04 / GET YOUR BEARINGS
Learn the process first ↗
Start with the extract-brewing guide, then choose a recipe that fits your setup.
02 / THE HOUSE RECIPE BOOK
Six classics.
Six very good rabbit holes.
Golden, hoppy, roasty, or yeast-driven: these recipes give you six different ways into the collection.
HOPS / THE FOUNDATION
American pale ale
Citrus, pine, and a malt backbone. A classic place to work on hop balance.
LAGER / CLEAN & GOLDEN
Munich helles
Soft malt, a clean finish, and a reason to dial in your fermentation setup.
DARK / PROPER PUB MATERIAL
Irish stout
Roast character and a dry finish. Build the pub pint you keep coming back to.
WHEAT / LET YEAST TALK
Hefeweizen
Wheat, expressive yeast, and that unmistakable banana-and-clove character.
ALE / THE HOUSE REGULAR
American blonde ale
A familiar golden ale for a recipe notebook that is just getting started.
03 / FIND YOUR NEXT FERMENT
The recipe cabinet
is officially open.
Search a style, ingredient, or favorite recipe. Choose a shelf to narrow things down—or let the bench pick a project for you.
No recipes found. Try a broader style or reset the filters.
The labels above organize recipes by theme, not difficulty. Fermentation needs, equipment, ingredients, and batch sizes are explained in each recipe.
04 / THE EXPERIMENTAL CORNER
“What if we brewed…”
is how this starts.
Fruit, dessert, coffee, and a beer–cider crossover. Leave room in the notebook for the fun stuff.
DESSERT DEPARTMENT
Black Forest pastry stout ↗
A dessert-inspired project for the dark side of the recipe book.
FALL / COFFEE BREAK
Pumpkin spice latte beer ↗
A roasty autumn project that brings the café into the brewhouse.
05 / BREW A LITTLE FURTHER
A passport with
malt stains on it.
Browse the regional and specialty archives. Follow a tradition, find a familiar style, or take the scenic route through brewing history.
06 / THE BREW-DAY TOOLKIT
Good notes beat
confident guessing.
Keep the useful stuff close: calculators for the numbers and practical guides for the process.
Open every brewing calculator →
07 / WHILE THE YEAST WORKS
Your fermenter has a job.
You can have a snack.
A short detour into the rest of the Academy: use the grain, plan a pizza night, or try a beer cocktail.
FROM THE MASH TUN
Give the grain another round ↗
Explore breads, snacks, and more ideas for spent grain.
THE GREAT AMERICAN SERIES
Plan the pizza night ↗
50 states, 50 pizzas, and 50 local beers for some off-duty inspiration.
The next batch starts with a little curiosity.
Build the skills, explore the styles, and find inspiration for the beer you want to make next.
BUILD YOUR BREWING BENCH
LAST CALL / RESEARCH NOTE
Homebrew counts as research.
Especially the second batch.