2/2 Homebrewing News

// Partners brewing up their dreams
// February 1, 2011 at 10:13 PM

http://www.topix.com/hobbies/homebrewing/2011/02/partners-brewing-up-their-dreams?fromrss=1
To the brewing philistine, those 930-gallon gleaming kettles bearing not-so-appealing names such as fermentor and mash tun might look like an overgrown lab experiment.


// Sake School: Koji, The Miracle Mold
// February 1, 2011 at 7:03 PM

http://www.topix.com/hobbies/homebrewing/2011/02/sake-school-koji-the-miracle-mold?fromrss=1
Editor's Note: Welcome to Sake School! Your professor is Monica Samuels, who trained with American Sommelier Association and the Sake Education Council.


// Today: Mountain Sun pub group starts the Stout Month celebration
// February 1, 2011 at 6:03 PM

http://www.topix.com/hobbies/homebrewing/2011/02/today-mountain-sun-pub-group-starts-the-stout-month-celebration?fromrss=1
Every year, the Mountain Sun pub group celebrates Stout Month, complete with featured stouts on tap, a homebrew competition and the concurrent Chop Month, which features employees and owners styling their facial hair in unusual shapes.


// Copper Kettle Brewing plans to fill a hole in the Denver area's growing beer map
// February 1, 2011 at 1:58 PM

http://www.topix.com/hobbies/homebrewing/2011/02/copper-kettle-brewing-plans-to-fill-a-hole-in-the-denver-areas-growing-beer-map?fromrss=1
Jeremy Gobien went to school for ten years, got his Ph.D. in engineering from North Carolina State -- and then decided to drop it all and brew beer in Colorado.


// Kicking the habit
// February 1, 2011 at 3:24 AM

http://www.topix.com/hobbies/homebrewing/2011/02/kicking-the-habit?fromrss=1
Beer, like wine, is one of the oldest beverages developed by man, dating back nine or ten millennia, probably an accidental by-product of storage of cereals of different kinds.


// The Sip
// January 31, 2011 at 11:10 PM

http://www.topix.com/hobbies/homebrewing/2011/01/the-sip?fromrss=1
Food to put you in the mood, and the beer to drink with it. Oysters Oysters and beer are such fast friends that there exists a style of beer, called oyster stout, to categorize the creamy-textured dark beers that are made to be drunk with the briny bivalves.


// Homebrewing: American Pale Ale
// January 31, 2011 at 7:00 PM

http://www.topix.com/hobbies/homebrewing/2011/01/homebrewing-american-pale-ale?fromrss=1
This style seems to have emerged from the strong hop-producing regions at the beginning of the American craft beer movement.


// There's an art to drawing the label on a beer bottle
// January 31, 2011 at 2:53 PM

http://www.topix.com/hobbies/homebrewing/2011/01/theres-an-art-to-drawing-the-label-on-a-beer-bottle?fromrss=1
A bulldog that looks like Winston Churchill. A Ouija board. A double-wide trailer with a tornado bearing down on it.