Ken Carman is a BJCP judge; homebrewer since 1979, club member at Salt City Homebrewers in Syracuse, NY. Former member of Escambia Bay Brewers, Clarksville Carboys and Music City Homebrewers. Ken has been writing on beer-related topics, and interviewing professional brewers all over the east coast, for well over 30 years. There’s an …
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Written by Franz Hofer for A Tempest in a Tankard ~The Lay of the Land~ Munich. Beer gardens. And beer hiking. Three things I can’t get enough of. Put them all together and you have a ramble that takes you to some of Munich’s most beloved and most illustrious beer gardens. For years I’d had …
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Written by Franz Hofer for A Tempest in a Tankard Zoigl: More Than a Kind of Beer It’s been way too long since I posted about the Oberpfalz, one of my favourite beer regions in Germany. Sure, beer in nearby Franconia is the stuff of legend. And there’s no denying the sublimity of the Alpine …
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Written by Franz Hofer for A Tempest in a Tankard So Many Beer Gardens … Let’s assume for a moment that you love beer gardens as much as I do. You’ve explored all that there is to offer in the English Garden, you’ve visited some of the iconic beer gardens in the center of town, …
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I’m glad this trend of fresh hops/green hops started. It used to be shunned because of grassy notes.Now I know brewers who drive across the country and back just to make sure the hops arrive in optimum, pristine, even quite green, condition.
It can be done wrong,however. It can be quite abrasive and like chewing on a whole field of grass.Sounds like this was pretty much perfect.