Homebrewing

I Am A Homebrewer Answers The Call

August 21, 2009

I’m not sure who’s actually responsible for this, but it’s a great answer from the homebrewing community to Greg Koch’s video I Am A Craft Brewer.

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A Bender That Brews Beer

January 10, 2008

Remember the television show Futurama? It was the Simpsons’ Matt Groening’s other animated series that ran on Fox for four seasons beginning in 1999. There was a robot — or perhaps more accurately a “foul mouthed, cigar smoking, booze drinking, shiny metal arsed, bending robot” — in the show whose name was Bender. Besides his [...]

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Northern California Homebrewers Festival

October 8, 2007

I spent a fun weekend with the family attending the 10th annual Northern California Homebrewers Festival. Friday night we had a great beer dinner by Sean Paxton, the Homebrew Chef, and Saturday all day we enjoyed some excellent homebrewed beer. The theme for the festival was sour beers and beers made with wild yeast. Homebrew [...]

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Session #8: Food and Beer

October 6, 2007

+ Our eighth Session, hosted by Captain Hops at Beer Haiku Daily, involves the pairing of beer with food, a subject near and dear to my heart. I have been persuaded by extensive testing — better known as eating — that beer and food go together far better than wine will for the average meal. [...]

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NorCal Beer Dinner Menu Finalized

September 26, 2007

Over the last year I’ve gotten to know the “Homebref Chef,” Sean Paxton, and he was kind enough to invite me to his 10th annual beer dinner at the Northern California Homebrewer Festival which will take place October 5. The festival itself is the 5th and 6th and takes place at the Lake Francis Resort [...]

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Do You Want Some Pizza With Your Pizza Beer?

June 18, 2007

I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry. Pizza and beer, of course, are one of the most beautiful pairings and one of the most natural, rivaling such other hit duos as peanut butter and jelly or warm apple pie and vanilla ice cream. But it may have been taken too far, as homebrewer Tom [...]

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Ember Ale Collaborator Beer

January 14, 2007

Oregon Brew Crew member Jamie Dull, whose homebrew, Ember Ale, was made using roasted grain that was smoked on his barbecue. It was then brewed commercially as a Collaborator beer with Widmer Bros. Brewing. Fox Channel 12, KPTV Portland, did a nice three-minute segment on his Collaborator Ember Ale. You can watch it on YouTube.

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Sam’s “Extreme Brewing” Published

November 1, 2006

Sam Calagione’s newest book, Extreme Brewing: An Enthusiast’s Guide to Brewing Craft Beer at Home, was published today. This one is more about homebrewing than his last book, Brewing Up a Business, which was all about his iconoclastic marketing style. If you know Sam, you’ve got to love this quote from Forbes. “The Italian word [...]

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Samuel Adams Brings Back the Longshot

May 18, 2006

Back in the mid-1990s, Boston Beer Co. sponsored a contest for homebrewers. For a couple of years, homebrewers submitted their efforts in the hopes of seeing their beer in a six-pack. That’s because the two winners for each year’s contest would have their beer commercially brewed and sold under the Longshot label by Boston Beer. [...]

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