Brewers call it packaging. Beer drinkers call it a bottle, a can, draft beer, real ale, from the wood, a long neck, stubby, bomber, dinner bottle, a...
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How many times have you heard “unfiltered beer is better.” How could that be? If it’s true then why do some brewers filter their...
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This week the 17,000 membership American Homebrewers Association has introduced its new website homebrewersassociation.org. Formerly the association...
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Contradicting beer talk about fresh vs. aged beer can get confusing to the emerging beer drinker. Lager is a beer that’s aged.Fresh beer is...
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Most beer drinkers know beer is a naturally fermented alcoholic beverage. Yeast is introduced into unfermented brewed “wort.” Yeast...
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As you’re sipping and savoring your favorite beer, peering into the sudsy universe floating atop the surface of your brew, you’d think...
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Julia Herz, Craft Beer Program Director for the Brewers Association recaps the excitement of her attendance at Hop School 2009. It’s an annual...
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Lautering is not a word most citizen beer drinkers use on an everyday basis, but it’s one that is on every brewers mind when it comes to...
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Some beer enthusiasts call “foul” when it comes to the differences between barley wine ale and strong and hoppy versions of India pale ale...
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You can credit the English for inventing the beer style of ale that created a counterpoint to the gloomy, cool, wet, gray weather and long winter...
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