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Curbside Beer – The Do’s and Don’ts

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At the time of this writing, various parts of our country are opening back up, while other regions are still under severe Covid-19 quarantine. A map of the Nation shows a patchwork of states with varying degrees of restrictions and infection trends. It’s a mess and we all want it to end. We are going to emerge from this, God willing sooner than later. I wish we didn’t lose 100k lives, millions of jobs and our ability to live freely. For me personally, I miss…

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Don’t Open a Brewery

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Exclusive interview with Kelly Meyer founder of New Braunfels Brewing Company and author of “How NOT to start a F@ck!ng Brewery: Ten Lessons From The Front Lines of The Craft Beer Industry“ The Emotion Behind the Book David: Why would a brewery owner write a book telling other people not to open a brewery? Kelly: The short answer to that question is, I assume you can sense the anger that was in the book. A lot of what my motivation stemmed from was the idea…

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Sometimes All I Want is a Beer Flavored Beer

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Regis Schmerheim
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Craft Beer Drinker, Padres, USC Trojans, Navy Midshipmen, & SDSU Aztecs Fan. I enjoy watching movies & sports, mostly at home. I typically do that with a beer in my hand.
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Every time I go shopping for beer the plethora of choices always brings a smile to my face. I’m not just talking about the various styles of Craft Beer. I’m talking about the flavors that are added to those styles. For example, Peanut Butter Milk Stout, Serrano Baltic Porter, Mexican Lager with Lime, Tangerine IPA, and Honey Blonde Ale just to name a few. An exhaustive list would have thousands of beers in it. Speaking for myself. There are times where all I want is…

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My Barn Shop Collection

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One man’s beer can collection has turned into an art display that friends and family now contribute to. Untappd Comes to Life The bottle art catches your eye, its a beer style you enjoy,  you scan the hops used and ABV/IBU are right up your alley, into the pick six pack it goes.  This scene is repeated by craft beer drinkers all over America daily. You chill your new additions and anticipate enjoying them and adding each to your Untappd roster of unique beers.   Beer…

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The View From Behind Two Counters

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Beer secrets from a man who works at brewery and a liquor store. I had the pleasure of meeting Griffin one Saturday afternoon driving through northern Indiana. I knew Chapman’s from the brown they distributed in the region and I finally had a chance to visit the place. I had an amazing experience that afternoon. Not just from the good beer but also from a guy that really understands the art of being a good bartender. He has a unique background working at both a…

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Bombs Away Brewing, Albuquerque NM

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Writer & drinks nerd. Blogs about beer, homebrewing & travel. Words in @ReadOctober and @FermentHQ. Novel in progress, sponsored by G&Ts.
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A review of Bombs Away Brewing, located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A veteran owned brewery located next to a military base has to be something special. “Bombs Away Beer Company is a Veteran owned and operated Brewery & Taproom in Albuquerque’s Skyline Heights Neighborhood” You’d be hard pressed to find a denser huddle of engineers drinking beer anywhere in the country than at Bombs Away Brewing on a late Friday afternoon. This veteran-owned brewery is aptly located next to an Air Force base, on the…

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Recipe Design for Brewers…Simplified (Part 2: Hops)

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Tom Ayres
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This series by Tom Ayres, explores recipe design. Brewing creativity and the factors that makes each beer style worthy of celebration. All segments in this series can be read here. Now that we have a structure for our beer, we need to develop our recipe further to include the equally important ingredients of hops, yeast and water. In this article we’ll explore designing hop additions. A quick review of our design plan… As we discussed last time, we’re going to tackle beer recipe design in…

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Recipe Design for Brewers…Simplified

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Tom Ayres
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This series by Tom Ayres, explores recipe design. Brewing creativity and the factors that makes each beer style worthy of celebration. All segments in this series can be read here. When it comes to designing your own beer recipes, there’s a lot of great information out there. From books on the subject to website articles, there’s a lot of great detailed information and approaches to designing beer recipes from scratch. That said, it’s pretty complicated stuff. After reviewing some of my favorite sources on this…

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How Adnams went from traditional family brewer to craft collaborator

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Sean O'Reilly
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Traditional Adnams Brewing (Southwold, England) collaborates with new breweries from America. When I started drinking Adnams beers in the mid 1980’s, the brewery was already over 100 years old. It was one of three regional breweries in the county of Suffolk in East Anglia, England, and it had a proud local reputation. In fact it had won national and even international awards in the 1950’s. At that time it was very much a traditional brewery. Much has changed since then, with Adnams recently having collaborated…

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