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. …
Here’s How A Six-Pack Of Craft Beer Ends Up Costing $12 Read more »
Nobody is calling it “beerpocalypsemageddon” or anything idiotic like that quite yet, and I’m certainly not implying that it’s time to panic and start hoarding cases of beer in a deep, razor-wire covered pit in the backyard*—but you should probably …
Montana Barley Crop Ruined, Beer About to Get More Expensive Read more »
There are beer geeks. There are co-op geeks, too. Matt Cropp could be a hybrid. “I geek out on co-ops,” said Cropp, 27, of Burlington. He writes about credit unions and is making a video about a central Vermont electric …
Oliver Streumpfel, who works as a waiter at a beer tent, set a world record at a beer festival in Abensberg by carrying 27 full 1-liter mugs at once. The mugs weighed around 2.3 kilograms each, meaning he had to …
German man breaks world record by carrying 27 mugs of beer Read more »
The science underpinning brewing can be a fascinating subject. However, rather than focusing on practical applications, academic brewing experiments are often stripped down (e.g., an isolated enzyme applied to a specific substrate molecule). This can yield interesting results and demonstrate …
Article: Phenols and Brett – The Fruity and The Funky Read more »
It’s Okay To Be Smart explores the scientific processes behind brewing beer in their latest episode. Host Joe Hanson visited the Jester King Brewery in Austin, Texas and spoke with brewer Averie Swanson about the history of beer and the various strains of yeast that the brewery uses. http://laughingsquid.com/its-okay-to-be-smart-explores-the-scientific-processes-behind-brewing-beer/
Terroir is a fascinating thing. New Zealand white wines (chiefly Sauvignon Blanc) have gained worldwide attention for exhibiting exciting flavors and aromas (e.g., lime-zest and gooseberry) not produced when the same grapes are grown in Europe or the Americas. It is intriguing …
In this episode (Episode #9):Marco Beero explores 8 Wired Brewing Company’s Barrel Program in Blenheim, New Zealand…and learns about aged beers, sour beers, fruit beers and more from “Yeast Wrangler and Barrel Shepherd” Jason Bathgate. 8 Wired’s barrel program is …
Untappd provides a mobile check-in application for beer lovers. Their application has been downloaded by over a million users and on any given night, they can register over 300,000 individual checkins and social sharing events. http://blog.iron.io/2014/08/how-one-developer-serves-millions-of.html