Beer is Good for You
[class photo is at the lab]
Beer is good for you in all kinds of ways. More notes to follow.
Homework:
Find a six pack of a beer that you haven’t had for a while and enjoy it with a friend.
Watch out for the lions.
Beer: Racer 5 from Bear Republic.
Those Fall Colors
We talk about wet hops, GABF, Long Shot, Teach a Friend to Homebrew Day, pumpkin beer, 10 years of Magnolia, Beer Bus and Twin Peeks. Plus a lot more.
TheBN covers brewing with wet hops.
Simpsons avatar generator. South Park avatar generator. Here’s John and John.
D’oh.
Here’s the words to sing along:
DO-RE-MIBEER, by Homer J. Simpson.
DOUGH… [...]
Live from ESB
Watch homebrewers brewing from 1PM until 5PM Pacific time. This is part of National Teach a Friend to Brew day.
Motor phones in from the GABF
Motor got to spend time at the Great American Beer Festival held in Denver Colorado. By calling into the ‘robot’ he was able to record some impression of the show from the floor. A link to some pictures will be up later.
pre GABF
The Great American Beer Festival is just a week away. Be sure to listen to the GABF preview from the Brewing Network.
Gold, silver and bronze medals in 75 beer-style categories will be awarded October 13 at the 1:30 p.m. awards ceremony held during the Members Only Tasting Session.
408 Breweries on the festival floor [...]
A Brewer’s Perspective of Brewing
A perspective (actually maybe this should be retrospetive instead) of brewing and beer culture going back to 1983. Shaun O’Sullivan from the 21st Amendement Brewery in San Francisco, CA joins the discussion. We talk about the beginnings of the micro brewery revolution, what worked, what failed and the future of craft beer.
[group photo posted soon.]
Belgium 101
Belgium is a wonderful place for beer. There are many styles from that country. Many of which are not always accessible to the American style beer drinker from a palette point of view. Belgium beers don’t follow marketing trends that “large beer factories” making labels that look uninviting.
Zappa and the Three Beers
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In the tradition of the show “Your Next Four Beers” we talk about the beer that you should try next. This time we pick beers that push you further from the beer that you might be drinking now.
Homework: While you might have trouble finding Russian River Redemtion finding Orval and Chimay should [...]
Dad’s Beer
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The brands that my father and his friends used to drink were Hamm’s, Schlitz, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Olympia and Old Milwaukee. There were great marketing campaigns that went with these beers making them memorable even today. However these beers are little more then a brand names made in somewhere in America (like [...]
Syllabus
It has been six month since we started Beer School. It’s time to restate the goals of the class. The entire text of the syllabus can be found here. We talk about how some things have to be reassuringly expensive.
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The burrito tunnel!
BJCP study guide and BJCP off flavor [...]
