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- 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...
- Types of Beer
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Making Beer at Home
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