Brew Your Own magazine

12/16/2025

After 3,000-year-old yeast was cultured from ancient ceramic vessels, a homebrewer starts a journey that combines history, archaeology, and brewing science in a way few projects ever have as he recreates an ancient Egyptian beer someone living three millennia ago might have recognized as beer.

A homebrewer combines history, archaeology, and brewing science in a way few projects ever have to recreates an ancient Egyptian beer.

11/22/2025

Don’t miss out on our biggest storewide sale of the year - right in time for the holidays! Save 50% on BYO subscriptions, books, digital downloads, and even brewing events. You can save 50% on hundreds of homebrewing products through December 5 so don’t wait to lock in your savings. Share your love of homebrewing with others or build up your own brewing library for a very Hoppy Holiday season.
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11/13/2025

A few hours away from today's Live Video Chat with brewer/brewery owner/author/Mad Fermentationist Michael Tonsmeire! Digital members, sign up here and get your questions in for today's live event at 1 pm ET!

Register now for Live Chat with Michael Tonsmeire on crowdcast, scheduled to go live on November 13, 2025, 01:00 PM EST.

11/10/2025

Does your wort require yeast nutrients to help the yeast fully ferment it? Learn what factors impact wort nutrient levels, and what yeast nutrients bring to the fermenter.

Does your wort need yeast nutrients? Learn what factors impact wort nutrient levels, and what yeast nutrients bring to the fermenter.

11/04/2025

Beer and baseball just go together. Join Brew Your Own magazine on a classic New England beer and baseball road trip next August 2 - 7, 2026. We’ll hit games at three beautiful minor league stadiums in Maine (Portland Sea Dogs), NH (New Hampshire Fisher Cats), and Mass (Worcester Red Sox) before catching a home Boston Red Sox game at Fenway Park. Along the way we’ll visit 9 local craft breweries including Allagash in Portland, Maine and Treehouse Brewing in Massachusetts. It’ll be wicked fun! ⚾️ 🍺
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10/28/2025

A full day of talking and sharing expert strategies for both the business and brewing side of running a taproom-focused, small-scale craft brewery with panel discussions and seminars at our annual live online NanoCon event. It was fun to have craft breweries from across North America as well as five different countries join us this year from as far away as Australia and New Zealand!

10/17/2025

Weldwerks is one of the hottest breweries right now — from hazies like Juicy Bits, to sours, to traditional styles, they're doing them all right! Their brewers shared tips and 5 clone recipes with us for our Nov-Dec cover story. Check it out!

Founded in Greeley, Colorado, in 2015, WeldWerks has taken the craft beer world by storm over the past decade. Read about their styles.

10/06/2025

“I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke up and was not happy.” - Ernest Hemingway

The last four days the Brew Your Own magazine South Africa Brewery & Safari Adventure went on game drives in the Kapama Reserve near South Africa’s Kruger National Park. It was an unbelievable experience.

10/04/2025

A huge thank you to BYO’s South African beer guide Lucy Corne-Duthie for an amazing job with the BYO South Africa brewery-safari tour group. Lucy is not only a force in South Africa’s craft beer industry running the Africa Beer Cup competition, the BeerEx conference, and writing countless articles and books promoting craft beer across the African continent (including Brew Your Own Magazine) - she’s also just a great person! BYO Publisher Brad Ring had fun planning this trip with Lucy over the past 18 months and then seeing those plans come to life in her hands this past week. The group had special beer experiences and truly warm welcomes from local brewers thanks to her. Cheers to a job well done Lucy!

10/03/2025

We're looking for potential "Last Call" columns in future issues! Got a funny homebrew-related story, amazing experience, or wisdom to share in this human-interest column? Email us at [email protected]!

10/02/2025

There’s an old saying in wine country that it takes a lot of beer to make good wine. The beautiful valleys surrounding Franschhoek and Paarl, South Africa are known internationally for wine, but local brewers are putting their own stamp on the region crafting wonderful beers for all those winemakers (and others!) to drink. The BYO South Africa Brewery and Safari Adventure spent the last two days visiting five breweries to sample their beers and talk with local brewers. It was a great way to wrap up the brewery portion of our tour before we head out on safari. Cheers!🇿🇦 🍺

10/01/2025

Umqombothi is a traditional wild fermented African beer made from sorghum and corn for special family celebrations. You drink it together as a group out of a clay pot only a few days after the wild yeasts on the grains start fermenting and as a result it tastes slightly sweet and a bit sour. The BYO South Africa Brewery-Safari tour group got to enjoy this indigenous cloudy brew - you could call it the original hazy beer - at an award-winning brewery in the Cape Winelands region called Soul Barrel that champions the use of traditional African ingredients. We also enjoyed a barrel sample of Wild African Soul, an amazing blend of Umqombothi and Soul Barrel’s mixed culture farmhouse ale that won the 2025 Best Beer in Africa award at the Africa Beer Cup competition.