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2012 Texas Beer Fest Pre-Party at the Ginger Man
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February Glass Nights at the Ginger Man
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No Label Brewing Beer Dinner at Baker Street Pub
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AHA Rally at Saint Arnold
January 29, 2012 15:01
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Allblue32:
I really like your style.
Blondes, Ballads and the Booze
Posts Tagged ‘hops’
Hops + Chocolate? Yes.
Wow, the’re has been a lot of chatter among the craft beer community online today! Hot topics! Heated debates! Name calling! But – I am not going to weigh in right now about a beer marketed specifically to women or people being specifically offended by a beer label. Nope. Today I’m going to talk about [...]
Beer 101: What are hops?
Hops are one of the four primary ingredients of beer, the others being malted barley, yeast, and water. Hops are cone-shaped flowers that grow on the hop plant, which is a fast-growing vine. The flowers are picked and dried or compressed into pellets before being added to beer. There are three reasons hops are added [...]
Beer 101: What is “skunked” beer?
The word “skunked” is often used to describe beer that has been spoiled. However, skunked refers to a specific type of spoilage that is caused by beer being exposed to light. Skunked and light-struck are synonymous terms. Skunking has nothing to do with temperature, oxidation, or bacterial infection, though all of these can spoil beer [...]
3 West Coast Beers from Laurelwood, Russian River, and Bridgeport
A review of three west coast beers: Laurelwood Brewery’s Organic Free Range Red, Russian River’s Pliny the Elder, and Bridgeport’s Hop Harvest Ale. Beers from Portland, Oregon and Santa Rosa, California. Originally posted at beerandscifi.com
3 Pacific Northwest Beers From: Deschutes, Hale’s, and Bridgeport
A review of 3 Pacific NW (Oregon and Washington) beers: Deschutes Seasonal Jubelale 2008, Hale’s Kolsch, and Bridgeport’s Hop Czar Imperial IPA. The breweries are from Portland, and Bend, Oregon and Seattle Washington.
Fall means hops harvest and wet hop beer
Hops is harvested in early September. It is usually dried in kilns and often pressed into pellets to prevent it from spoiling soon after harvest. But for some lucky brewers who are close enough to the hops fields, fresh, or wet, hops can be used to brew a very special beer. While the drying process [...]
Breweries changing recipes to use less hops
I have written before about the world-wide shortage of hops (and malts) that is causing the price of beer to go up. Now it seems the next logical step is already taking place: breweries are having to change their beer recipes to use less hops. Here’s the root of the problem: The bulk of U.S.-grown [...]
