Equipment

Brewing gear, tools, and equipment reviews for home fermentations.

Intro to Making Mead

Intro to Making Mead

A complete beginner's guide to making mead at home, from equipment and ingredients through fermentation, back-sweetening, pasteurization, and bottling.

August 6, 2026 46 min
Bottling Day: The Final Stretch
brewing

Bottling Day: The Final Stretch

Bottling day is the most rewarding and stressful part of homebrewing. Learn my siphon setup, stabilization, pasteurization, and how to avoid bottle...

4 min
reviews

A Tilt Hydrometer review for homebrewers — real-time Bluetooth gravity and temperature monitoring without drawing samples, plus the flaws that hold...

4 min
PLAATO Airlock Review
reviews

PLAATO Airlock Review

A PLAATO Airlock review — the smart fermentation tracker that promised bubble-counting gravity, then became a $100 paperweight when the company...

3 min