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And will your AI girl/boyfriend steal your banking details?

Grab a beer and tune in as the boys answer these critical questions in the latest BBB!

Booze, Booms & Busts… Read the rest “Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #88 – Florida man and his AI girlfriend”

The six new beers have been brewed exclusively for Aldi Scotland at Fierce Beer, Aberdeen
The Drinks Report Custom News Feed… Read the rest “Aldi Scotland collaborates with “Fierce & Friends” for beer range”

I got a blend of juice and this was the breakdown. Ask your local homebrew store to get juice or shop online. The French harvest is October to December, so juice is usually available in late fall. Varieties were Frequin Rouge, Muscadet de Dieppe, and Binet Rouge. If you can’t get these varieties, use low-tannin culinary apples, which you can balance with tannins later in the process. Juice kicks off with a natural fermentation. On day 3, add the cultured yeast. Fermentation is slow. Ferment cool at 60–64°F (16–18°C).

Rack several times for clarity, and then condition on French oak cubes (I leave the cubes in for one to two weeks).… Read the rest “Norman French Cider”

Calling all homebrewers. We want to hear from you! 

We’re thinking about the future*, and your insights on homebrewing are super valuable to us. We’ve put together a quick 2024 survey to learn about how you brew, what resources you love, and what you think we’re missing.

The details:

• Responses are anonymous
• It’ll only take about 10 minutes
• Membership is not a requirement of the survey
• The survey closes on the evening of July 19th
• As a gesture of our thanks, we’ll send a summary of the survey results to anyone who is interested.

Raise your hand if you participated in Dry January or plan to do Sober October this year. Even those of us in or adjacent to the beer industry occasionally need a reset. We’re “tapped out,” as Mark LaFaro says in his article for Good Beer Hunting about the problem of overdrinking for those who work in alcohol.

Still, we’re thirsty and our wallets are open. That’s why savvy retailers know it’s good business to offer nonalcoholic options on menus; not doing so is a missed opportunity at every pint.

As if on cue, those with capital and know-how in the beverage market (and beyond) are taking advantage.… Read the rest “The NA Way: The Rise of Non-Alcohol Beer”

After racking an English dark mild to a keg, we decided to put some old orange blossom honey and the must and oak chips from an even older wine kit on top of the mild’s yeast cake. Fermentation was sluggish, so K1-V1116 was directly pitched on day 2 of primary fermentation. Fermentation stopped at 1.087, so we made a starter of EC-1118 yeast with a little honey and pitched it at high kräusen. The mead only dropped to 1.084 and was sticky sweet, like grape jelly. We balanced the sweetness with citric acid and wine tannin and added the peanut butter whiskey to give it a PB&J flavor.… Read the rest “Frankenbutter! Specialty Mead”

The National Homebrew Competition (NHC) allows homebrewers a chance to receive invaluable feedback on their entries. It also recognizes the most outstanding, world-class homebrewed beer, mead, and cider.

In 1979, 34 entries competed in the first American Homebrewers Association (AHA) National Homebrew Competition held in Boulder, Colorado. Since 2023, 162,710 entries have been evaluated, and the NHC has become the largest homebrew competition in the world.

Browse through 20 fruit mead recipes that earned medals in past years of the National Homebrew Competition, the biggest amateur homebrew competition in the world!… Read the rest “20 Award-Winning Fruit Mead Recipes”

Welcome to AHA at GABF. We’re excited!

For 2024, the American Homebrewers Association (AHA) is pleased to offer AHA members the option to gather surrounded by layers of beer appreciation, education, and off-the-charts networking at the who’s who of U.S. beer gatherings, Great American Beer Festival

We look forward to celebrating homebrewers on a national stage and hosting the National Homebrew Competition awards at the country’s largest beer festival, first hosted by the AHA in 1982.

Learn more about Homebrew HQ at GABF

The post Get Ready: Homebrew HQ at Great American Beer Festival appeared first on American Homebrewers Association.… Read the rest “Get Ready: Homebrew HQ at Great American Beer Festival”