A Japanese beer that is made with melted icebergs from the Sea of Okhotsk, local flowers, and blue seaweed, is now available online for curious American beer drinkers on Firebox. Abashiri Brewery’s Okhotsk Blue Draft is described as “the bluest beer …
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With Anheuser-Busch InBev rumored to have an interest in acquiring SABMiller and SABMiller trying to acquire Heineken, David Yanofsky for Quartz had a look at the structure of global beer distribution. The companies above, summing to six big beer distributors, accounted …
Brewbot, the startup known for its personal beer making “robots,” has closed a new $1.5 million round of funding today to make homemade beer as common as brewing a pot of coffee. Brewbot’s personal beer-making machine allows you to brew beer in …
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Spend a day at Hallertau learning how to brew the perfect IPA. From kettle hopping to dry hop timings and a few Hallertau secrets. Perfect that ‘in your face’ hop aroma that will impress yourself and your friends. A reasonable …
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I have what I would call a reasonably well put together and balanced kegerator. In spite of that, for years, I have dealt with the dreaded first foamy pint of beer. After that, the beer pours great. That is until a significant …
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Patsy Kerr of Omagh, Ireland reportedly spent 15 years digging a tunnel from under his bed to a nearby pub so he could visit the bar while his wife slept. He was only caught after an investigation into a sewer …
Danish brewing in 1960 – boiling and cooling We’re back with the article on Danish and German brewing in the Journal of the Institute of Brewing. Clearly I find it fascinating because it’s all about Lager. First we have boiling. …
As a method to combat human wine critics’ personal biases and provide more objective feedback, advances in artificial tongue technologies have been made in recent years that put the sensitive discernment of various qualities of taste in the hands of …
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The name might be inspired by a classic country and western drinking song (“You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt”), but 16 Tun is not your everyday swill-house. Tucked into a space …
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: There’s never been a better time to be a beer drinker in America. The skillful innovation of American craft brewers over the past decade has pushed beer in delicious new directions. …
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