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• A Great Beer Deserves the Right Glass
  Which glass looks best for beer presentation is largely a subjective issue. Belgian brewers, for example, are known to take the issue to a delightful extreme, some going so far as to design the brew...
  
  
• A Short History of Beer
  The history of beermaking is a story of invention, dedication and pride. Though winemaking is a very old art - perhaps beginning...
  
  
• Ale - The Experimenter's Choice
  Ale is at the top of the beer pyramid in more ways than one. The two broad categories of beer - ale and lager - are distinguished chiefly by the kind of yeast used during the fermentation process...
  
  
• Barley Malt: Beer's Basic Ingredient
  Sometimes a problem is cleverly turned into an advantage. The world is indeed fortunate that barley is good for little more than making beer. But for that, it is excellently suited. Barley is a...
  
  
• Beer Ingredients
  Beer is essentially four basic ingredients: water, malt, yeast and hops that are boiled, cooled and stored to ferment.
  
  
• Beer Is Mostly Water
  Water might be the most varied chemical compound on the planet. Plain old H2O is the same anywhere, of course. But brewing with pure water is not only expensive, but leads to poor beer - flat, stale...
  
  
• Enjoying the Brew: Beer Tasting Tips
  Tasting is about the last thing in the world most beer drinkers would think they need advice on. But to get the most out of the experience, emulate professional...
  
  
• Home Brewing Equipment
  Before you can start making your beer, you will need to assemble the right equipment.
  
  
• Home Brewing in 10 Easy Steps
  Once you have equipment assembled and cleaned, you can begin to make your own beer. It's a time-consuming process but well worth it.
  
  
• Hops: Clever Use For a Useless Plant
  Beer is essentially four basic ingredients: water, malt, yeast and hops that are boiled, cooled and stored to ferment. The last, hops, are the flowering cone of a viney plant related to cannabis. But...
  
  
• How To Store Beer
  Unlike wine, the majority of beers are not brewed to age. Beer typically spoils within a few months, a year at most, with rare exceptions. Even specialty brews aren't made to improve over the five,...
  
  
• Is Lager Your First Choice?
  Lager - America's Favorite Beer Even the most avid fans would find it difficult to sample a fraction of the thousands of varieties available worldwide. But all this delightful choice is the product...
  
  
• Latest Beer Making Videos
  Latest tips from veteran home brewers
  
  
• Making Beer at Home
  
  
• Pairing Food and Beer
  The idea of giving deep thought to which food to serve with a selected wine goes back centuries. It will surprise many that the same is true of pairing a good beer with a favorite dish. Beer has a...
  
  
• Types of Beer
  
  
• What Online Beer Clubs Offer
  Wine clubs have been around longer than the Internet, but they blossomed there. Providing full-color catalogs via mail-order is slow and expensive and expanding your customer base is more difficult....
  
  
• Yeast: Fermenting Beer
  Beer - Yeast Yeasts are living organisms, a uni-cellular fungus, and have a rare ability: to live with or without oxygen. In the presence of air, they multiply. In the absence of oxygen, they ferment...