May the Wort Be With You: Star Wars-inspired Beer Recipes
A (not so) long time ago in a homebrewery far, far away… an idea was born! Let’s tell the tale of the original Star Wars trilogy (IV, V, VI) with beer recipes.
This brilliant plan came from Andrew Sanders, Tyler Maybee, and Paul Crowther. The triumphant trio cohosts the Pop Culture Brews podcast, developing beer recipes inspired by their favorite movies and other pop culture media. Check out these 4 Beer Recipes Inspired By Movies.
The Pop Culture Brews crew used the same pale ale beer base for this intergalactic adventure.… Read the rest “May the Wort Be With You: Star Wars-inspired Beer Recipes”
The Coolship Has Landed: Film Elevates the Art of Lambic Brewing
Jerry Franck, an Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker from Luxembourg, grew up near the country’s border with Belgium, but only rarely visited. Decades later, Belgium became the backdrop for one of his most ambitious projects: investigating the evolution of the centuries-old lambic brewing tradition.
At the start of the 20th century, there were more than 70 brewers of lambic ale in the city of Brussels, but by the1960s, only five or six remained. Bottle Conditioned, which contemporaneously premiered at the Sonoma International Film Festival (SIFF) in California and DOCVILLE International Documentary Film Festival in Belgium in March, and played at the American Documentary Film Festival in April, is an aggregation of four years of footage, analogous to the brewing and blending culture of lambics.… Read the rest “The Coolship Has Landed: Film Elevates the Art of Lambic Brewing”
2023 National Homebrew Competition First Round Results
The National Homebrew Competition (NHC) First Round judging is complete and the results have been published.
Congratulations to First Round winners on your achievement and thank you to everyone who entered the world’s largest homebrew competition!
Scoresheets have now been emailed to all entrants via the Beer Awards Platform via contact@GetBAP.com. If you have not received these scorecards, please check your junk/spam folder before emailing contact@GetBAP.com.
In an effort to create unbiased final judging for rarer styles, the official sub-style letter will be excluded until the award ceremony on June 24.… Read the rest “2023 National Homebrew Competition First Round Results”
May/June 2023 Zymurgy Magazine Now Available
The May/June 2023 Zymurgy magazine is now available! Check out featured stories including Czech Amber Lagers, Beers of the Volgadeutsch, Traditional Innovation, Cider, Sidra, Sgardoa, and Christmas in June.
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Heady Homebrew: Making Beer with Cannabis
As cannabis becomes legal and available in more states, the polarizing plant has become a point of curiosity for food and beverage explorers.
Cannabis-related ingredients have long been incorporated into culinary endeavors, and today more homebrewers are finding ways to bring cannabis into the beermaking process.
Use the below resources to make your headiest beer yet!
Techniques for Using Cannabinoids in Brewing
Access a free chapter from the book Brewing with Cannabis by Keith Villa, Ph.D., founder of CERIA Brewing Company and Blue Moon Brewing Company.
Brewing with Cannabis
Keith Villa, Ph.D.
Five Young Breweries You’ll Be Hearing About Soon
A lot has happened across the U.S. since the COVID pandemic shifted lifestyles in 2020. While much of the country was shut down during the pandemic, a handful of breweries were opening their doors or planning to open when the only thing certain was uncertainty.
Fast forward to 2023, and with most of the country reopened, the public able to resume tasting room visits, and brewers getting used to their new normal, a few breweries have managed to make a name for themselves, garnering attention and accolades despite only being open for less than three years.… Read the rest “Five Young Breweries You’ll Be Hearing About Soon”
Member Presale, Exclusive Savings on New Release
Boulder, Colo. — Available April 11, Crafting Brewery Culture: A Human Resources Guide for Small Breweries from Brewers Publications® is the first and only human resources book for the craft brewing industry. Crafting Brewery Culture is the newest addition to Brewers Publications’ Business of Beer portfolio of resources for brewers to excel in beer quality, finance, and now human resources. Written by Gary Nicholas, Crafting Brewery Culture provides breweries of all sizes with an invaluable roadmap for building a growth-centered brewery culture driven by positive reinforcement, teamwork, and accountability.… Read the rest “Member Presale, Exclusive Savings on New Release”
Make Beer at Home on National Beer Day
Making beer at home is really simple when boiled down to its basics:
- Pick out the perfect beer recipe.
- Get your ingredients at a store or online.
- Combine the ingredients to make a wort (unfermented beer).
- Ferment/condition for a few weeks.
Get started with The Easy Guide to Making Beer.
Keeping It Simple
Starting out with a simplified beer-making process that requires minimal equipment and know-how will set you up for delicious tasting beer.
By making beer with malt extract, the homebrewing process is quick and easy to execute. Your first beer will be set up for success!… Read the rest “Make Beer at Home on National Beer Day”