2/17 Homebrewing News

// Prof: What ales you is good for students
// February 16, 2011 at 8:42 PM

http://www.topix.com/hobbies/homebrewing/2011/02/prof-what-ales-you-is-good-for-students?fromrss=1
Some might question the wisdom in promoting beer to college students, but officials at Appalachian State University said the school's beer brewing program helps tackle the issue of binge drinking head-on. The course is named Honors Chemistry: Intro To Beer Brewing, and yes, it's an actual academic class at the university.


// Midnight Sun: Contests for Baltimore home brewers and chili cooks
// February 16, 2011 at 4:33 PM

http://www.topix.com/hobbies/homebrewing/2011/02/midnight-sun-contests-for-baltimore-home-brewers-and-chili-cooks?fromrss=1
Maryland home brewers, there's a contest with you in mind. DuClaw Brewing Company is looking for participants for their first home brewing contest.


// Busy in Beervana: Pike Brewing founders visit...
// February 16, 2011 at 12:13 PM

http://www.topix.com/hobbies/homebrewing/2011/02/busy-in-beervana-pike-brewing-founders-visit?fromrss=1
Charles and Rose Ann Finkel, founders of the Pike Brewing Company, are in town Wednesday and Thursday and will be at Bailey's Taproom this evening before repairing to Higgins for a Pike Brewing beer dinner, and at the Green Dragon tomorrow at 5 p.m. The Finkels opened the Pike Place Brewery in 1989 in the Pike Place Public Market.


// New Mpls. Brewery A Labor Of Love
// February 16, 2011 at 9:03 AM

http://www.topix.com/hobbies/homebrewing/2011/02/new-mpls-brewery-a-labor-of-love?fromrss=1
Behind a red door with a handwritten sign, a Minneapolis man is taking his shot at the American Dream.


// Building the perfect coffee snob
// February 16, 2011 at 4:44 AM

http://www.topix.com/hobbies/homebrewing/2011/02/building-the-perfect-coffee-snob?fromrss=1
Coffee snobs should head to one of the Brooklyn Roasting Company's tasting sessions for the chance to sample brews made by the borough's most fuel efficient roaster.


// Drinking in a little history
// February 16, 2011 at 12:35 AM

http://www.topix.com/hobbies/homebrewing/2011/02/drinking-in-a-little-history?fromrss=1
Jennifer Yuengling 's great-great-great-grandfather may have brewed your great-great-great-grandfather's beer.


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