Flying Dog Brewery in Denver has finalized the recipe for its Collaborator Doppelbock.
The brewery has posted the recipe its brewers will use to make the beer – which gets eight weeks lagering – in a way that makes it easy to convert into a recipe for a smaller (homebrew) system.
Readers of Zymurgy, the journal of the American Homebrewers Association, have chosen Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA as the “Best Commercial Beer in America.”
90 Minute was a three-time champion of Real Beer’s Battle of the Beers.
Zymurgy has been conducting the annual survey for five years, inviting readers to send in a list of their [...]
The BBC reports on the homebrewed creations of Ugunda and how drinkers share ajono, a beer made from millet:
The adoption of a “one-man, one-straw” rule in home brew drinking clubs in eastern Uganda has seen a resurgence of a declining social tradition.
What do they do for Happy Hour?
Richard Skains of Rocky River, Ohio, won Best of Show and National Homebrewer of the Year in the National Homebrew Competition judged in Denver, Colo. Jamil Zainasheff of Elk Grove, Calif., won the Ninkasi Award as the winningest brewer in the second round of judging.
Awards were presented Saturday at the National Homebrewers Conference Grand [...]
Eight hundred or so homebrewers will gather this week in Denver for the American Homebrewers Association’s national conference.
Last week the Rocky Mountain News had a story about how the hobby contributes to Colorado’s economy – including the fact that perhaps 90% of professional brewers got their start as home brewers. The Denver Post had a [...]
Wyeast Laboratories will soon begin selling two of its most popular yeasts to homebrewers in gluten-free form. The Oregon yeast lab already offers the yeast to commercial brewing companies.
Wyeast 1272 GF American Ale II and Wyeast 2206 GF Bavarian Lager will be sold in Activator Pure Pitchable Yeast packages.
The gluten-free yeast will be offered to [...]
The Cincinnati Post profiles federal judge David Bunning.
For fun he brews his own beer, about two cases at a time three or four times a year, some of which he gives as Christmas presents. Honey wheat is a current favorite, and he allows that “it’s pretty good.”
Of course he also tells fisherman’s tales.