Today’s beer video is a short interview of beer historian Ron Pattinson, the description for which reads. “Ron talks old beers with Bocky whilst sitting next to a very bad gnome. Find out about the latest Once Upon A Time Beers as well as Ron’s pursuit of the truth about porters.”
Beer In Film #32: The Chemistry Of Beer With Grant Wood
Today’s beer video is all about the Chemistry of Beer and features Grant Wood, when he still brewmaster for Samuel Adams, at their Boston brewery. Grant recently left to open his own brewery, which is in Texas. His Revolver Brewery is also making some really terrific beers. The video is part of the Byte Science Science series, and provides a great overview of the chemical processes involved in brewing beer.
Beer In Film #27: The Chemistry of Beer Online Course
Today’s beer video is an interview with Mark Morvant, professor of chemistry at the University of Oklahoma , by the local newspaper blog The Thirsty Beagle. Morvant is teaching a free online course on The Chemistry of Beer. The class started January 13, but apparently you can still participate and catch up if you hurry and register soon. So far, over 7,000 people have signed up for his class. Watch the video below to see if it’s for you.
Sir John Barleycorn — Miss Hop — (and their only child) — Master Porter
Here’s a pretty cool historical artifact, from the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale. It’s a print that was created in 1808 by London publisher Thomas Tegg. It’s printed on woven paper, an “etching with stipple” and is hand-colored. The “plate mark is 25 x 35.2 cm.,” on a sheet of paper 27 x 28 cm, and the plate is numbered 151 in the upper righthand corner. When new it sold for one shilling, but I’m guessing it goes for a bit more now. It’s title is “Sir John Barleycorn — Miss Hop — (and their only child) — Master Porter” and is further “dedicated to the publicans of London.” Ah, they had a baby and named it Porter, too. Small world.
Beer In Film #23: SABMiller Brewing Process
Today’s beer video is a great little isometric motion graphic animated film of the SABMiller Brewing Process, told in about three and a half minutes.
Dunedin’s Mobile Brewhouse On Wheels
My friend and colleague, Gerard Walen, has an interesting story on CraftBeer.com about a mobile brewery that drove from Florida to Oregon. In Collaboration On the FL-ORegon Trail, Walen details the rolling brewery built by the Dunedin Brewery and its journey to Oregon, and then on to Denver for GABF. Check it out. Gerard can normally be found on Road Trips For Beer, and recently finished the Florida Breweries book in the same series as my northern California guidebook, which will be published this April.
The Mobile Brewhouse.
Time-Lapse Bigfoot Fermentation
Here’s a very cool video of Sierra Nevada’s annual Bigfoot Barleywine Style Ale being brewed in open fermenters. The video shows 12,400 gallons of barley wine fermenting “over six days in four traditional open fermenters.”
First made in 1983, Bigfoot has been released every February since, and will again be much easier to find than the real Bigfoot this coming February, as well.
The Beer Breakdown
Today’s infographic is entitled The Beer Breakdown to shows some of the basic differences between ales and lagers, some examples and the brewing process. It was created by Chloe Hoeg for an illustration class she took at Ohio University, where she graduated from in 2012.
Click here to see the infographic full size.
Varieties Of Beer Venn Diagram
Today’s infographic is a Venn Diagram showing the basic divisions in beer styles, created by A Drinker’s Guide to Beer. I might have preferred “hybrid styles” to “mixed,” but it’s an interesting way to show that some varieties are neither an ale or a lager, but share elements of both.
Click here to see the venn diagram full size.
Beer-Tapping Physics: Why A Hit To A Bottle Makes A Foam Volcano
If you saw my post on Beer Tapping Physics on Monday, NPR did a more in-depth look at the phenomenon based on the press release that started it all. Their piece, Beer-Tapping Physics: Why A Hit To A Bottle Makes A Foam Volcano, goes into much more detail, including a trio of animated gifs.
