Blog Posts
Avoiding sticky situations when brewing with adjuncts
- The Hoppy Horseman
- Education
- 04 Aug, 2023
Q: How do I prevent a stuck mash when brewing with adjuncts like corn or wheat? A: Picture a perfect brew day. Everything seems to be going right. You hit your mash temp perfectly. Everything
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Theories of Thiol
- The Hoppy Horseman
- Education
- 04 Aug, 2023
[Edit May 16, 2025] Sadly, Omega no longer offers thiolized yeast to the homebrewing market.**Q: What’s the deal with this “Thiolized” yeast I ke
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The Horsemen of the Hopocalypse are the American Homebrewers Association’s 2023 Radegast Club of the Year!
- Charlie Scudder
- Announcements
- 07 Jul, 2023
It’s a great time to #flytheflag🏴☠️, y’all. At the AHA’s HomebrewCon in San Diego, your Horsemen were named the first club in Texas to ever win the award, which goes each year to a club that displa
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Best beers to ferment this summer
- Charlie Scudder , Michael Myers
- Announcements
- 07 Jul, 2023
Hot summer temperatures make for long brew days and the need for frosty cold beers. But some of the most refreshing beers ferment at icy-cold temperatures. For brewers without consistent temperature c
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Seven tips for your best batch of mead
- Charlie Scudder
- Education
- 07 May, 2023
At the end of April, we met up at the Morriss house for a special hands-on Horsemen meeting. Award-winning meadmakers John Bates and Reni Morriss walked us through the ins and outs of fermenting honey
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Beer Clarity and Finings, Part 3
- Michael Myers
- Education
- 04 Feb, 2023
This is the third part of my four part series on improving beer clarity. In the previous sections we discussed how to measure clarity, causes of poor clarity, proteins and tannins and how to control a
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- Michael Myers
- Education
- 04 Feb, 2023
In the previous sections we discussed how to measure clarity, causes of poor clarity, proteins and tannins and how to control and improve beer clarity in the mash and the boil. Today we’re going to di
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- Michael Myers
- Education
- 06 Jan, 2023
Last month we covered how to measure beer haze and some of the major causes of beer clarity issues. This month we're going to go in-depth and discuss yeast, proteins and tannins and begin to cover how
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- Michael Myers
- Education
- 04 Dec, 2022
This is a detailed series on beer clarity and finings. In this first we are going to cover what beer clarity is, how it's defined and measured and the potential causes of haze or clarity problems in b
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Style in Focus: Munich Helles
- Michael Myers
- Education
- 04 Dec, 2022
The devil is in the details with this style. It's a delicate balance in many ways. A little malty, but by no means sweet. Pleasantly full-bodied, but by no means full bodied. A little grainy, but by n
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