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What’s Wrong With My Beer?

April 28, 2013 By Jay Brooks

beer-defects
Today’s infographic is another one from CraftBeer.com, the Brewers Associations consumer website. This one, an article entitled When Craft Beer Goes Bad, was penned by Andy Sparhawk, and included this infographic showing common beer defects and their possible cause.

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Filed Under: Beers, Just For Fun Tagged With: Brewers Association, Infographics, Science of Brewing

How To Pour A Pint

April 27, 2013 By Jay Brooks

pint
Today’s infographic is a How To Pour A Pint, and was created by cartoonist Emily Sauter whose Pints and Panels includes her great cartoon beer reviews. The infographic below was used in a Bay Area Craft Beer post, So You Want to Have Craft Beer at Your Wedding, by John Heylin. Sauter provided the illustrations.

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Filed Under: Beers, Just For Fun Tagged With: Glassware, Infographics

Anchor’s “Steam Beer Billy”

April 26, 2013 By Jay Brooks

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Anchor Brewing released a fun three-part story over the past few days on their blog, pieced together by resident historian Dave Burkhart. The story, “Steam Beer Billy,” is a true story that was told in the San Francisco newspapers in 1898, 115 years ago. The story concerns William “Yankee” Sullivan and his pet goat, Jack, both apparently big fans of Steam Beer, and their exploits that began on New Year’s Eve and ended several days later, when Sullivan was finally out of jail and reunited with Jack.

Part one ran on Wednesday, part two yesterday, and part three finished off their tale today. Enjoy.

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Filed Under: Beers, Just For Fun Tagged With: Anchor Brewery, History

Craft Beer Temperature Cheat Sheet

April 26, 2013 By Jay Brooks

temperature
Today’s infographic is a Craft Beer Retailer Temperature Cheat Sheet, and was created by Julia Herz for the Brewers Association on their CraftBeer.com website.

beer-temperatures
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Filed Under: Beers, Just For Fun Tagged With: Infographics

DIY: Build Your Own Mug Of Beer

April 26, 2013 By Jay Brooks

beer-bag
You’ve probably heard of origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, and a few years ago I wrote about the newer Japanese craze of 3D paper models known as “paper craft” in Japanese Paper Beer. I just came across another one, this time it’s a paper mug of beer — called “Mr. Beer” or “Beer-Kun” — that you can download and build for yourself. If you’re looking for a project or something to do this weekend, here you go. Go to either Tamasoft or Cheek Patch to see the steps and also where you can find a link to the pdf to download as a pdf. Both websites are in Japanese but can easily be translated with the right browser.

This is what it should look like when you’re done.

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After you download the zip file, print out the pdf and then carefully cut out all of the pieces. You should then have all of these separate pieces, ready to build your mug. Have fun.

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Filed Under: Beers, Just For Fun Tagged With: DIY, Japan

How Ales & Lagers Are Fermented

April 25, 2013 By Jay Brooks

brewery-tanks
Today’s infographic is How Ales & Lagers are Fermented, and though I don’t know who created it, I found on Planet Beer. The illustration shows some of the basic differences in the brewing process between ales and lagers.

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Filed Under: Beers, Just For Fun Tagged With: Brewing Equipment, Infographics, Science of Brewing

How To Homebrew

April 24, 2013 By Jay Brooks

home-brew-graphic
Today’s infographic is How to Homebrew, though I don’t know who created it originally. There’s a name at the bottom, but I can’t quite make it out. The poster shows the basic steps to making beer at home.

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Filed Under: Beers, Just For Fun Tagged With: Homebrewing, Infographics

Sh!t Beer Geeks Say

April 24, 2013 By Jay Brooks

humor
Here’s a hilarious video from Down Under. Sh!t Beer Geeks Say is a video produced by the folks putting on Good Beer Week, an Australian beer week centered around Melbourne and Victoria, and also the Bridge Road Brewers. I especially love that Vinnie’s “Lupulin Threshold Shift” made it into the list of phrases used in the video.

Filed Under: Beers, Just For Fun Tagged With: Australia, Beer Weeks, Humor, Video

Gephi Dual Circle Beer Styles

April 23, 2013 By Jay Brooks

beer-styles
Today’s infographic is pretty cool. It was created as design exercise, by Kris Erickson on his blog, EricksonData. It’s what he refers to as a Gephi Viz, this time with beer data. He used the bottled beers listed in the BreweryDB, “and filtered out many of the smaller US brewers (according to number of beers entered into BreweryDB).”

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Filed Under: Beers, Just For Fun Tagged With: Beer Styles, Infographics

Hangover Cures Around The World

April 22, 2013 By Jay Brooks

hangover
Today’s infographic surveys hangover cures from around the world, listing a number of different cures by nation. It was created by Arjan De Raaf for Flavored Delights.

hangover-cures-that-work
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Filed Under: Beers, Just For Fun, Related Pleasures Tagged With: Health & Beer, Infographics

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