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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. Brew Biz is a column written by Ken Carman for Professor Goodales The Topic: Beer Priests vs. Gurus of Greed I have [...]

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A bit pricey and decent beer normally takes more than 7 days: conditioning. Plus regular homebrew gear can be had for a lot less.-PGA Written by Ben Coxworth for gizmag.com and Popular Science Ian Williams and and Anders Warn, with the WilliamsWarn beer brewing machine. Home beer-brewing is sort of like writing a novel – [...]

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(The Professor is a little short on taste bud tolerance this century, so he’ll skip this one-PGA) Written by Chris Morran for consumerist.com Earlier this year, the MillerCoors marketing machine decided that people really wanted a lemonade version of its successful MGD 64 low-calorie beer. Alas, there must have been a mistake in the algorithm [...]

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Written by Joe Sixpack (Don Russell) for philly.com ASK ME THE WORST beer I’ve ever had, and the answer was always easy: Stegmaier Gold Medal. This was back in the 1970s. The case of 12-ounce cans was smuggled into a dorm room inside a leather suitcase, and we began popping them open before they were [...]

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Written by Tom Becham for Professorgoodales Anyone who spends enough time in pursuit of craft beer will eventually discover the Belgian monastic brews. These seven brewers – six in Belgium, one in the Netherlands – are all Trappist monasteries and make a fairly limited number of beer styles for the purpose of funding the monastery [...]

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From AP Writer NOT Credited FREDERICK, Md. — Some craft brewers are growing by shrinking. After years of shipping beer farther and farther away, many small brewers are now shrinking distribution to sell beer more profitably at home. The strategy reflects the nation’s growing thirst for boutique beers from independent breweries that simply can’t produce [...]

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Written by Charlie Papazian for craftbeer.com Most discussions regarding food and craft beer pairings emphasize the perfect marriages. It is remarkable to beginning beer enthusiasts how well beer pairs with certain foods. I’ve recently discovered that fundamentally food and craft beer pairings are not about the marriage, nor the independent characteristics of food and beer. [...]

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The BBC NEVER credits their writers. Shame.-PGA From the BBC Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that the occupants of southeastern France were brewing beer during the Iron Age, some 2,500 years ago. A paper in Human Ecology outlines the discovery of barley grains that had been sprouted in a process known as malting; an oven found [...]

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