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Hoppy Ever After: A Guide to IPAs
Hoppy Ever After: A Guide to IPAs It wasn’t so long ago that everyone was making fruited kettle sours, and almost nothing but. It also felt like most of them were the same base beer with the fruit being the differentiator. The sours still exist but have settled into a more appropriate portion of the…
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Beer Foam
The Crown of the Pint: Unlocking the Secrets of Foam Ah the mesmerizing cascade in a freshly poured pint of Guinness, the massive rocky head on a Belgian Golden Strong, and the tight fleeting white collar on top of a cask ale. All so different, but the ties that bind…… Foam. Beer foam is so…
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Irish Red Ale
Easy to Drink, Hard to Define Whether preparing for beer judging, a tasting exam, or just honing your skills, building a mental sensory profile from which to benchmark is vital. It’s always lovely when something easy and attainable comes along like Belgian Witbier. Which can be benchmarked with Hoegaarden White, Blanche de Chambly, Blanche de…
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The Name’s Bock………..
The GOAT Strong and malty, complex yet clean, and invariably incorporating a goat into the label, the beers we know today as Bock have had an interesting journey. The story begins in the northern German city of Einbeck. In 1368 the city joined the Hanseatic league, and by the end of the 1300s had become…
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A Brief History of Beer
In the beginning It has been proposed, by beer people of course, that humans settled down so they could make and drink beer. It’s a nice story. Similar arguments have been made with a focus on bread. We can generally agree however, that it was the birth of agriculture that set the foundations for human…