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Practical homebrewing guides, recipes, experiments and honest gear notes from a Norwegian homebrewer who’s been making beer since 2015.
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Latest from HoppyGeek
The latest recipes, experiments, guides and things I’ve learned at the brew bench.
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Homebrewing Equipment: What You Actually Need
What homebrewing equipment do you actually need? The answer depends on whether you choose fresh wort, extract or all-grain.
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Dry Hopping: What Actually Matters?
What actually matters when dry hopping homebrew: timing, oxygen, contact time, hop creep and keeping the process simpler.
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I Brewed My Christmas Beer One Month Before Christmas
Christmas was one month away and I still hadn’t brewed my Christmas beer. Plutselig Jul was made for exactly that problem.
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Guides, recipes and tools I think are especially useful right now.
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Plutselig Jul Recipe (20 L)
A 20 L American Amber Ale with caramel malt, American hops and an optional Christmas-spice twist.
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How to Know When Fermentation Is Finished
Learn how to tell when beer fermentation is truly finished using gravity readings, expected FG, and a few practical checks before packaging.
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How My Homebrew Setup Changed Over My First Decade of Brewing
I started with a kettle and mash bag. A decade later, my homebrew setup had changed completely—and so had my brew days.
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How to Brew Beer at Home: The Whole Process Explained
A practical guide to brewing beer at home, from malt and wort to fermentation, packaging, and the first glass.
About HoppyGeek
Homebrewing since 2015. Still testing.
I’m Espen, a Norwegian homebrewer who started brewing in 2015. HoppyGeek is where I document what I brew, what I test, what worked — and what I’d do differently next time.
You’ll find practical guides, full recipes and brew logs, small experiments and honest notes on the gear I actually use. No pretending every batch is perfect — just useful brewing notes from the bench.
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Useful brewing notes, when there’s something worth sending.
A short email when I publish something useful — a new recipe, experiment, guide or brew note. No fixed schedule, no filler.