Reported by Ken Carman for Professorgoodales.net Vastly superior to my own, pictures without a date stamp are courtesy Steve Smyth. We spent the week in the middle of nowhere: our future retirement home/camp in the Central Adirondacks. About a thousand miles from our present home base for over 30 years: Nashville, TN. When we left [...]

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Nubia region today. Source: Wiki Written by Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer About 1,500 years before the modern world discovered the antibiotic tetracycline, North Africans were fermenting and consuming it, probably for most of their lives, according to a chemical analysis of the bones of people who lived along the Nile. The ancient human remains [...]

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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 Corsair Artisan (Micro Distillery) 1200 Clinton St. Nashville, TN (Old Yazoo location) And 400 East Main Street #110 [...]

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Brewer: Chuck Skypeck

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Perception of beer bitterness is both genetic and dependent on how hops are infused. Photo: Charlie Papazian Written by Charlie Papazian At Slow Food’s Salone del Gusto in Turin, Italy last month I participated in a “Bitterness and Beer Workshop.  It was an eye opening experience about the perception of bitterness and how it related [...]

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Written by David Falchek for thetimes-tribune.com A Connecticut beverage marketer has teamed up with the Lion Brewery in Wilkes-Barre to revive a beer brand, bringing Rheingold to the shelves for the first time in 35 years. Drinks Americas hopes to give people a taste of the past by distributing Rheingold in the Eastern U.S., capitalizing [...]

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Written by Patrick Loch for hopheadnews.com Thanks to passionate entrepreneurs like George and Leah Shetka and Paul Pavkovich of Hippity Hops Farms, LLC, Minnesota might be making some noise in the hop farming industry. (Paul’s son Landon poses at Hippity Hops Farms, LLC, located in Forest Lake, Minnesota.) The three got started when Paul suggested [...]

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Sierra Nevada Chico, CA Profiled by Ken Carman Burnished gold. Tons of pillow/rocky head mix. A little chill haze but clear otherwise nice and clear. Cascade bitter and Cascade nose with some malt. The hops are fresh, though not that grass green you get from wet hops, though they claim “wet.” These hops were grown [...]

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How to make your home brew even more “home brew”-ish? What about roasting your own beans? Coffee Stout or Witte anyone?- PGA Picture of roasting beans, Doug Beghtel, The Oregonian Written by Grant Butler for The Oregonian Portland loves its DIY culture, with all its craft fairs, knitting classes and home-brewing get-togethers. Portland also loves [...]

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Written by Brad Smith for beersmith.com This week it is a distinct pleasure to feature Chris White, the President of White Labs Inc – one of the world’s premiere providers of brewing yeast for both commercial and home brewers. White labs is a pioneer in providing commercial quality yeasts to home brewers. 1.  When and [...]

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