Team Homebrewing Ups Your Game
This article is from the May/June 2023 Zymurgy magazine. AHA members can instantly access an archive back through the year 2000 with Zymurgy Online.
By Julia Herz, American Homebrewers Association Executive Director
If asked to count the number of days I’ve homebrewed alone versus with somebody else, I’m not sure which number would be higher. I can say the number of days I’ve transferred or bottled has been more solo. Regardless, when people ask about my preferred way to brew or package beer, the answer easily is “I prefer to brew with others.”… Read the rest “Team Homebrewing Ups Your Game”
4 Sourdough Recipes: Pizza Dough, Popovers, Bread, & Pancakes
Sourdough refers to a natural fermentation process that involves undomesticated bacteria and yeast. Instead of using packaged baker’s yeast, a fermenting mixture of flour and water containing wild yeast and bacteria is used to make the dough rise. This mixture is referred to as a “starter” and sometimes lovingly as the “mother.”
Naturally occurring wild yeasts tend to create more complex flavors than their commercially available counterparts. Lactobacillus–the tangy bacteria found in sour beers and yogurts–creates lactic acid during fermentation, which gives sourdough its signature tartness.
The four sourdough recipes below are perfect introductions to another realm of fermentation for homebrewers to explore.… Read the rest “4 Sourdough Recipes: Pizza Dough, Popovers, Bread, & Pancakes”
Cheers to Our Beer-Drinking Moms
Imagine a backyard barbeque in Northern California in the 1990s. Kids in sun-worn fluorescent bathing suits cannonball into the deep end of the pool. Adults grill hot dogs and chat. A woman sits in a flimsy, plastic chair, her curly, jet-black hair surrounding her head like a halo. When she opens her mouth to laugh, red lipstick yields to an orange-slice smile with a charming front-tooth gap. She’s got a cigarette in one hand and a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale in the other, nestled inside a chunky foam koozie. That’s my mom, and the bright green of that label of my youth stays with me today.… Read the rest “Cheers to Our Beer-Drinking Moms”
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
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