Friday was the final judging round for the National Capital Homebrew Competition. Sitting around head judge Barry Beadman’s dining room table, five men were in the middle of a heated debate: what makes a fantastic beer? http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/for-beer-judges-and-homebrewers-the-art-of-a-good-beer-is-all-in-the-details —Sent from Zite, available for …

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Marlborough’s Renaissance Brewing hope to raise up to $700,000 through equity crowdfunding when its campaign goes live next week. The firm will offer 350,000 shares, or 12.28 per cent of the company, through equity crowdfunding platform The Snowball Effect, which …

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Call it a happy accident, or even a beautiful mistake – but the last post ended in the place where this one begins: with my elbows resting atop a Galbraith’s Kauri table, pint of Bob Hudson’s Bitter within reach. But this time, my exceptional company is …

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The Brewers Assocation released their mid-year statistics on the craft beer industry in the United States this week, and a new benchmark was reached: probably sometime in June, for the first time since the 19th century, 3,000 breweries were operating …

Relax and Have a Beer — There’s No Beer Bubble Read more »

We (Koen and Elco) recently converted a Koen’s fridge into a BrewPi fermentation chamber and made a lot of photos of the progress. This guide will show you various options to convert a fridge or freezer into a temperature controlled fermentation chamber …

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A guide to Kiwi beer, breweries, brewers and beer regions. kiwi CRAFT will be a comprehensive guide book to New Zealand beer and breweries of New Zealand, focusing on the craft brewing industry. Please follow the development of kiwi CRAFT on Twitter and Facebook.  There are …

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While I wouldn’t call myself an expert, I’ve been brewing beer at home for years with decent results. Although the hobby of home brewing is becoming considerably more popular every year, many people still don’t realize how fun and easy …

The Sous Vide Beer Making Adventure Read more »

To most folks, mead is little more than that sickly-sweet honey drink from the Renaissance Faire—a hangover in a glass for nine bucks a pop. But hear me out: that’s the crappy stuff. When it’s made well, mead can be …

A Beginner’s Guide to Mead Read more »

R U L E S    f o r    B R E W I N G . Care must be taken, in the first place, to have the malt clean; and after it is ground, it ought to stand …

Rules For Brewing Circa 1747 Read more »

It seems like everyone’s experimenting with making beer at home these days—but you want to make sure your results taste more like your favorite beers, and less like, well, science experiments. We asked eight Certified Cicerones for their advice on …

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