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Beer Craft — Brewery Tours

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Keep up with what’s brewing! March 30, 2011. Hops come to brewers either as thumb-sized bundles of leaves called cones or flowers (the botanical term is strobilus, and they’re closer to pine cones than actual flowers), or ground up and packed into tiny, rabbit-food-like pellets. The cone-vs.-pellet debate is long and popular. Lagunitas uses pellets. They have to, because whole cones won’t fit into the air cannon head brewer Jeremy Marshall uses to fire hops at 70 psi. March 27, 2011. March 11, 2011.

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Beer Craft — Recipes

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Keep up with what’s brewing! December 05, 2011. Wintertime in the Midwest demands a warm breakfast. Waiting for your oatmeal to boil is a life-and-death situation, almost. You feel like Shackleton watching the sun come and crack the ice. Sometimes more so, if you have errands to run and left the car out of the garage. Buttered beer isn’t my cup of tea, so to speak, so I mulled it. August 14, 2011. Asked me to write about cooking with beer. I decided to make a day of it. Boil some beer with, say, ginger a...

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Beer Craft — Big Beers, Small Barrels

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Keep up with what’s brewing! March 11, 2011. Big Beers, Small Barrels. Texan homebrewers don’t mess around. While we were there we heard about a homebrew made with bacon-infused Scotch, and tried a smoky barleywine that tasted like meat and leather and was so delicious we licked off our fingers when we accidentally spilled a drop. Fort Worth’s Cap and Hare. Homebrewing club is hosting the biggest homebrew competition in the country this month Bluebonnet Brew-Off. Design by Closed Mondays. June 20 in Esco...

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Beer Craft — History

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Keep up with what’s brewing! June 26, 2012. Julia Ioffe’s profile. Of Russian chef/culinary historian Maksim Syrnikov. Includes a wonderful segment on distilling. A kind of rye whiskey, with a very Russian-seeming stove-top still, half built by a professional dairy engineer, half jury rigged with a bath towel, nail, and empty desk drawer. A “degustation”. Sipped from the still, Ioffe writes, “was still warm and smelled of freshly risen dough.” Rowanberry. June 21, 2012. And British cask beer. The best pa...

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Beer Craft — Hops, Stoopid

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Keep up with what’s brewing! March 30, 2011. Hops come to brewers either as thumb-sized bundles of leaves called cones or flowers (the botanical term is strobilus, and they’re closer to pine cones than actual flowers), or ground up and packed into tiny, rabbit-food-like pellets. The cone-vs.-pellet debate is long and popular. Lagunitas uses pellets. They have to, because whole cones won’t fit into the air cannon head brewer Jeremy Marshall uses to fire hops at 70 psi. Why all this hop talk?

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Beer Craft — Homebrewing

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Keep up with what’s brewing! June 21, 2012. Reborn. I began with the beginning: the world’s first beer. After baking some Mesopotamian hardtack. He let his date wine ferment too long, or too hot, or both.). Before IO-Star, before barrels, before bottles, beer was served straight from the fermenter, sucked through. Fresh beer is great; 12,000 years later, it still has its devotees. There’s. And British cask beer. Fresh and foamy) fills Franconian mugs. Bohemians have. June 11, 2012. June 05, 2012. We are ...

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Beer Craft — The Book

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Keep up with what’s brewing! July 19, 2012. New Book, New Blog. I’m working on a new book about the history of beer, a guide to the best booze, brewers, and fine drinking establishments of the last ten thousand years. It’s called. The Brewer’s Tale. And it will be published by Norton. Follow my adventures through time on my new blog. January 24, 2011. The book is out of our hands, and on press. Yeah, that feels good. You’ll learn how to brew one gallon batches of craft beer in your kitchen.

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Beer Craft — Bottling Line

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Keep up with what’s brewing! March 27, 2011. Does the Cicerone program. Certify brewery tour connoisseurship? We’ve been on our share of walks through fermenters and bottling lines and can report with authority that the Anchor Brewery tour is by far the most entertaining. Ask for Bob, and try not to roll your eyes right out of your head. 8230;But Is It Green? You’ll learn how to brew one gallon batches of craft beer in your kitchen. Design by Closed Mondays. William Bostwick and Jessi Rymill.

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Beer Craft — About Us

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Keep up with what’s brewing! Yeah, but what do you look like? Here’s the author photo we used in the book. For outtakes, find us on Facebook! PHOTO BY JEFF ELKINS. We’re Jessi and William, and we make beer. We live in a small apartment and we like being creative in the kitchen more than just following recipes. So we wrote a guidebook for our kind of homebrewing. We think you’ll like it, too. What, you want to know more about us? William is a journalist and beer critic. He’s written for. NPR, and the.

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Beer Craft — Shop

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Keep up with what’s brewing! Looking for equipment or ingredients? Check out our FIND STORES page. To locate a homebrew supply shop near you. Follow us on Facebook. For sneak peeks of our newest projects, and for discounts on. You’ll learn how to brew one gallon batches of craft beer in your kitchen. We’re Jessi and William—writers, designers, brewers—and Beer Craft is our guide to making great beer at home. Design by Closed Mondays. William Bostwick and Jessi Rymill. No public Twitter messages.