03 December 2010
Oak has a long history of use in the wonderful and inventive world of alcohol making. From using oak chips or oak flavoring products to aging wine, cognac, rum, and whiskey in oak barrels, the flavor that oak imparts is highly desired by many. But you can also use oak to enhance your next batch [...]
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03 December 2010
Last week we shared with you The Ultimate Home Brewing Hops Guide to help you navigate through the huge variety of hops available to brewers these days. But now we have something much, much cooler. Check out this very sexy hops chart designed by Zeke Shore. Informative and hot – it’s like a sexy librarian [...]
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03 December 2010
You can’t beat a glass of delicious hard cider when it comes to the holidays, especially when you’ve brewed it yourself! If you have always wanted to try home brewing cider, here’s a great recipe to get you started. This Cinful Cinnamon Cider is dry with decadent notes of nutmeg and cinnamon. And as far [...]
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01 December 2010
I’ve recently revived my interest in homebrewed beer. After some spectacularly unsuccessful attempts as a teenager (OK, I started young…), I must admit that I had resigned to buying my beer from the store. But inspired by seeing how easy it is to make high quality beer at home, I decided it was time I [...]
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01 December 2010
The holidays are quickly closing in on us which means it will soon be the season for New Years Resolutions and we’re sure the perennial favorite of lose weight and get healthy will be on a lot of lists. If you happen to fall into that group you might be wondering how much beer you [...]
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21 November 2010
The alpha acid in hops has a huge role in shaping the flavor of your beer. Without this compound, that refreshing bitterness that is so characteristic of beer would be non-existent. In order to measure the bitterness of a certain beer, brewers use a scale called International Bitterness Units, or IBU. The IBU is based [...]
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19 November 2010
Beer College is announcing a huuuuge Black Fri-Week Sale on our starter home brewing kits! If you have always wanted to brew your own beer or if you’re looking for the perfect gift for your favorite Beer Lover, you can pick up all the equipment you need now for only $34.95! Take advantage of this [...]
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18 November 2010
Want to be able to talk like a home brewer? Beer brewers have their very own highly specialized jargon that can be incredibly difficult to break through at first. It can sometimes make starting to brew beer a much more daunting prospect than it actually is! To prevent potential frustration before it happens, we have [...]
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16 November 2010
As promised here is one of Beer College’s favorite fruit beer recipes! This extract recipe is for a Blackberry Peach Lager, but we’re actually going to cheat and use apricots instead since they hold up better in beer and give a peach-y flavor. This beer has an incredibly refreshing flavor and is great for the [...]
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16 November 2010
If you were interested in playing hockey, would you go out and invest hundreds of dollars in equipment to get set up before you even learned how to skate? Of course not! Buy a pair of skates and a stick first and go play some pond hockey or join in a friendly pick-up game to [...]
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16 November 2010
The world’s strongest beer – Samuel Adams Utopias which comes in at an impressive 27% Alcohol By Volume – is about to hit store shelves in Canada this week! The beer is brewed at the Boston Beer Company, but it is so strong that it’s not legal for sale in parts of the US. It [...]
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16 November 2010
Whether you want to enhance the taste of your favorite Wheat Beer or give an extra dimension to a chocolate stout, adding fruit to your beer can open up a whole world of flavor in your home brewing toolbox. Fruit beers are usually associated with summertime, but can work very well with dark beers for [...]
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