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November 6 - 15
As craft beer becomes more popular, San Diego has risen as one of the top craft beer cities —- it was even named the top beer city by Men’s Journal magazine in October. And now, the county’s 33 breweries are coming together for San Diego Beer Week.
More than 200 events are [...]

Filed under: Articles on November 7th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

1. Trip Series:
New Belgium and Elysian are planning to collaborate on at least four
brews, the first of which was a Belgian IPA called Trippel IPA.
2. Midnight Project:
Terrapin and Left Hand released their second collaboration in September,
called Depth Charge, an Imperial espresso milk stout.
3.  Collaboration Not Litigation:
This one has been on the market for a while, [...]

Filed under: Articles on October 28th, 2009 | No Comments »

Craft Breweries Sierra Nevada and Dogfish Head will release two collaborative beers. Limb & Life, a draft-only beer, debuted in October 2009, while Life & Limb will debut in 24 ounce bottles and on limited draft in November 2009.
The two beers are part of the growing “collaborations” among craft brewers. The beers are “dedicated to [...]

Filed under: Articles on October 28th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Brown ale was once the beer of the British masses. In the late 1700s, fancier folks began to favor the newfangled pale ales. (Pale malt was more expensive to process than wood-fired darker malt, making pale ale a bit of a luxury drink.) But low-alcohol brown ales were perfect for fueling long days of hard [...]

Filed under: Articles on October 25th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

A new brewing guide has substance with froth!
Considering beer is the most popular alcoholic beverage in the world, there are still precious few books on the subject.
Guides to breweries and their beers - technical tomes aimed at the advanced home brewer or craft-brewer market, are growing in number, as well as the usual jokey, blokey [...]

Filed under: Articles on October 16th, 2009 | No Comments »

Munich Brewing Engineers Research Energy Savings
Brewing engineers from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) are working hard to improve the energy balance of the amber beverage. They are looking into a new process combination that would allow energy savings of up to 20% during brewing.
The Weihenstephan scientists will be exhibiting the heart of their energy-saving idea [...]

Filed under: Articles on September 8th, 2009 | No Comments »

When Light Meets Beer…
Light sensitivity is caused by hops, the dried female flowers of the hop plant that have been used for about 1,000 years to impart bitterness and a mellow aroma to beer and other brews. Hops boiled during the brewing process contain chemicals called isohumulones, also known as isomerized alpha acids, which when [...]

Filed under: Articles on September 2nd, 2009 | No Comments »

Every year aspiring homebrewers enter their beers into competitions around the country with the goal of bringing home a medal but there is a better reason to enter competitions and that is feedback.
The scoresheet for homebrew competitions have five sections for giving feedback; aroma, appearance, flavor, mouthfeel and overall impression. A judge evaluates these different [...]

Filed under: Articles on August 23rd, 2009 | No Comments »

Tired of drinking the same flavors of beer?
Home brewing offers a chance to create unusual, exotic varieties you could never find in a store.
“The great thing about this hobby is you can keep it as simple as you want,” says Rex Halfpenny, the publisher and editor of Michigan Beer Guide, a bimonthly publication with a [...]

Filed under: Articles on August 19th, 2009 | No Comments »

Or is it Beer o’ Clock?
Who came up with this rule anyway, and does it even apply on the weekend?
I guess as a standard, people who drink beer in the morning are considered
alcoholics -as far as the non-drinking population goes.
But what about champagne brunch? And when is brunch? -sometime between breakfast and lunch! So if [...]

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