21st Amendment in San Francisco recently won first place in the newly created Indigenous Beer category at the Great American Beer Festival, for a beer called HQT. And, in part because who cannot pass along a story like this and in part because emmer was involved, here’s their press release: HQT was a type of [...]
From the Table of Contents (with details added) Foreword By Yvan De Baets Introduction About the Book Part I – Wheat, the Other Brewing Grain 1 Wheat, Beer, and Bread 2 Wheat Basics: Why Is My Beer Cloudy? - Partly Cloudy to Cloudy - Twenty-First Century Solutions - You Say 4-Vinyl Guaiacol, I Say Clove [...]
In his ground-breaking book, “The World Guide to Beer,” Michael Jackson wrote that Berliner Weisse was undoubtedly more famous than the Weizen beers from the south. That was in 1977. Today only one Berliner Weisse is still brewed in Berlin, but brewers elsewhere are making similar beers. Or there’s Gose, once wildly popular in the [...]
Are you a beer judge? Do you have an opinion about how beers you’ve entered in competitions have been judged? Here’s an opportunity to comment. That means everything from common flaws in these “historic styles” to what you view as misconceptions about them Anonymous comments are OK, although I prefer you sign your name. If [...]
