Written by Donna Goodison for Bostonherald.com Samuel Adams is giving its social network a say in the brewing process by crowd-sourcing a beer. Using the “Crowd Craft Project” app, Facebook fans can determine the color, clarity, body and character of the malt, hops and yeast for the collaborative ale, which will make its debut during [...]
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Jan
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Jan
Picture courtesy howderfamily.com and panoramio.com Written by James F. Lee for Washingtonpost.com Alois Bube was urging us on. “Drink plenty of beer!” he cried. “I put plenty of myself into every keg!” Not needing any more prompting, I went up to the bar and ordered a Bube bock draft — rich, slightly sweet and with [...]
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Jan
Written by Will Trice for the AHA Which is better, bottling or kegging? It’s one of the great homebrew debates, right up there with extract vs. all-grain and batch sparging vs. fly sparging. Both bottling and kegging have their advantages and disadvantages, and both can be onerous at times. Peeling labels off of used bottles [...]
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Jan
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Jan
Profiled by Ken Carman for Professor Goodales Nice long lasting head, brown, caramelized nose but not much else, lots of body to the mouthfeel with darker malt sense: perhaps a tad to heavy for a Scottish, this is very interesting. Kind of an odd Scottish Heavy with parts of the profile on steroids, and at [...]
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Jan
Professional brewers and beer business people in Arizona predict the future of Craft beer: both in Arizona and for the nation. Picture courtesy Pat Shannahan/The Arizona Republic. Ron Kloth, owner of Papago Brewing Company, passed an extensive test on beer knowledge, from brewing to serving, including how to pair different beers with certain foods to [...]
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Jan
Profiled by Ken Carman for Professor Goodales I love Barley Wine. I paid almost $20 for this champagne bottle of Abomniable… explaining why I’m kind of pissed. This had all the markings of a great Barley Wine packaging-wise, but it was Barley Wine light: mouthfeel, taste, aroma-wise. Looks good: solid gold, a bit foggy probably [...]
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Jan
Image courtesy alibaba.com Written by Tom Becham for Professorgoodales.net Let’s face it. Amongst beer geeks, beers containing fruit and/or spices tend to have a poor reputation. Fruit beers are routinely called “girlfriend beer” (that’s actually the most POLITE term I can find for them), while spiced beers are usually written off as gimmicks and/or seasonal [...]
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Jan
Samuel Adams Brewers Unveil A New Spring Seasonal Beer
Posted by Professor Good Ales Published in Front PageBrewed with Noble Hops From the Alps, Samuel Adams® Alpine Spring Hits Shelves this Month BOSTON, Jan. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — The brewers at Samuel Adams have crafted a brand new seasonal beer, Samuel Adams Alpine Spring. This beer has the balanced maltiness and hoppiness of a helles, the strength and smoothness of [...]
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Jan
Author NOT credited. From foxnews.com QUEENSTOWN, New Zealand – Despite being named Beer, and making her own brew, a New Zealand woman has been prohibited from entering a home-brew beer contest because she’s not a man. Rachel Beer, who makes a brew named “Beer’s Beer,” was shocked to be told a home-brew competition at an [...]
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