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Ken Carman is a BJCP judge; homebrewer since 1979, club member at Escambia Bay and Music City Homebrewers, who has been interviewing professional brewers all over the east coast for over 10 years. Written by Ken Carman Barrington Brewery and Restaurant aka: Berkshire Mountain Brewery 420 Stockbridge Road Great Barrington, MA 01230 413-528-8282 Brewer and [...]
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Profiled by Ken Carman I approached this brew with a bit of “barf” mentality as beer judge. There are some fruit beers I like, but gimmicky brews remind me of Zima: a product that should have been sent to Gitmo and waterboarded until it admitted responsibility for all the other crappy gimmick beer that followed. [...]
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Written by Martyn Cornell for Zythophile.wordpress.com (Note: a little minor editing was provided, simply because the other IPA articles are not posted here. The Professor suggests you check Mr. Cornell’s posts at Zythophile if you wish to read previous entries- Prof. GA) Here’s the executive summary on what we know, what we don’t know, what [...]
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Written by Charlie Papizian America’s small brewers need beer distributors to get their beer to beer drinkers. But getting beer to beer drinkers is often threatened with thumb-squashed state based beer distribution laws. In the beer business they call these laws “franchise laws.” Some who feel anger refer to these laws as “monopoly laws.”
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Bar customers finding new ways to boost profits with Beer Tubes, as fans put the Tubes to the test at parties and sports leagues. From mmdnewswire.com. Author(s) not attributed (MMD Newswire) July 9, 2010 – The evolution of Beer Tubes continues to gain momentum as new uses for the 100-plus ounce table top beverage dispenser [...]
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Shi Shi Beach: Beautiful images require wondrous beer. From “the crew” @ beerblotter.wordpress.com (writers or writer not credited on site) Last weekend we embarked on what might be the greatest “hike-in” beach camp spot in all of the Northwest. Our trip to Shi Shi Beach in the Makah Indian Reservation (Neah Bay, WA) was beyond [...]
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Written by Scott Hammers for The Democrat Herald The Oregon Liquor Control Commission’s new interpretation of an old law has put homemade beer and wine in the spotlight, effectively banning judged competitions, home-brewing club tasting nights, and even the taking of a six-pack of home-brewed beer to a neighbor’s barbecue. At issue is ORS 471.403, [...]
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Hop (Humulus lupulus): Downy Mildew Note the shoots with shortened internodes, characteristic of hop downy mildew From OSU University’s Website: content edited by: C. M. Ocamb and D.H. Gent Aerial spike present on hop bine Cause: The fungus-like microorganism Pseudoperonospora humuli persists from year to year in infected hop crowns or plant debris in soil. [...]
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