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Yours for Good Fermentables ™: An excess of silliness: beer styles
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009. An excess of silliness: beer styles. The Periodic Table of Elements lists 117 basic chemical. Elements of nature, including two new discoveries in 2008. But the Brewers Association. The BA), an advocacy group for small brewers in the US lists . ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY. Different and unique styles of beer, some newly 'discovered' for 2009. I'm going to call it the beer stimulus plan. A number I had then thought self-indulgent. Here, instead, would be my parameters. Fresh (meaning ...
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Yours for Good Fermentables ™: Good night, Mr. Eckhardt.
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Monday, August 10, 2015. Good night, Mr. Eckhardt. Sad, sad news for 'craft' beer today. Well, really for beer. Fred Eckhardt, uber-mensch of 'craft' beer, has died, aged 89 (1926-2015). 8212; The New School Beer. If you are a 'craft' beer brewer and you don't know who Mr. Fred Eckhardt was, you should. He is a big reason why today, nearly fifty years after his first work on beer. A Treatise on Lager Beers: A Handbook for Americans and Canadians on Lager Beer. Published in 1989, would become a seminal tr...
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Yours for Good Fermentables ™: DC Beer Week: The Interview
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Sunday, August 16, 2009. DC Beer Week: The Interview. DC Beer Week ( www.dcbeerweek.com. Runs today (Sunday, 16 August) through Friday, 21 August. That's D.C., as in Washington, District of Columbia. But it's the first time the capital city of the United States has ever had a week-long celebration of beer culture. I recently sat down to discuss the festival with its two principal organizers, 'Hoppy' Jeff Wells and Chef Teddy Folkman. Bus runs for free. Some groused that DC Beer Week. Will only extend ove...
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Yours for Good Fermentables ™: Pic(k) of the Week: A cask's keystone should never look like this!
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Saturday, August 08, 2015. Pic(k) of the Week: A cask's keystone should never look like this! Would you want to drink a beer poured through this keystone? That green stuff is mold. Mold growing on beer residue left on the keystone of a firkin after that 10.8 gallon cask was sealed at a brewery. Mold insinuating itself into the wood (and maybe the beer). Should the brewery have done a (much) better job of cleaning the keystone? Uh, yes (although I suspect that no attempt was made). For more from YFGF:.
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Yours for Good Fermentables ™: Bardo Rodeo Rope-a-Dope?
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012. The story broke, yesterday —suddenly, surprisingly, hopefully— initially at the Prince of Petworth. Blog, and then at the Going Out Gurus. At the Washington Post. 8212;northern Virginia's first-ever brewpub, long-closed— may be returning to the area, not to Arlington, but to the Trinidad neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Here's how the Post's Fritz Hahn put it, giving the story local-beer-history context:. In 2007, Andrew Stewart (l) at Dr. Dremo's,. The scene at Bardo Rodeo.
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Yours for Good Fermentables ™: Clamps & Gaskets: News Roundup for Weeks 30/31, 2015.
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Monday, August 10, 2015. Clamps and Gaskets: News Roundup for Weeks 30/31, 2015. A bi-weekly, non-comprehensive roundup. Of news of beer and other things. 19 July - 1 August 2015. It's been 50 years since the birth of U.S. 'craft' beer. In August 1965, Fritz Maytag, heir to the Maytag washing machine company, purchased a dying San Francisco brewery, the Anchor Brewing Company, and the rest is history. 8212;Via Tom Acitelli, at All About Beer Magazine. 8212;Via Tom Rotunno, at CNBC. The annual report from...
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Yours for Good Fermentables ™: It's the 7th annual DC Beer Week!
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Sunday, August 09, 2015. It's the 7th annual DC Beer Week! In 2009, Jeff Wells —Washington, D.C.-area beer guru— and Teddy Folkman —co-owner and chef at Granville Moore's. A Belgian-beer and food inspired 'gastropub'— conceived and created DC Beer Week. A celebration of the beer culture in the nations's capital, whether brewed there (not many choices at the time) or enjoyed there (many more choices). Today, Sunday 9 August 2015, marks the beginning of the 7th running of DC Beer Week. Jackie Ludden: Direc...
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Yours for Good Fermentables ™: To DC Beer Week 2011, and beyond
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Sunday, July 17, 2011. To DC Beer Week 2011, and beyond. Anyone who has ever organized a city-wide ' beer week. Can empathize with the struggle: a lot of work, a real threat of financial loss, and scant acknowledgement. I'll stipulate to that: the organizers of DC Beer Week. Deserve much credit. But, let's compare DC Beer Week. To similar festivals in two cities just to our north. Philadelphia's Philly Beer Week. Begun in 2008, has been a rousing success. That's not DC Beer Week. The year. When the a...
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Yours for Good Fermentables ™: Firkin Dimensions
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Tuesday, December 08, 2009. I was asked. I didn't know. I took out the tape, and measured. Now I do know, and you can too. Here are the exterior dimensions of a stainless steel firkin. The diameter or width of the head from the outside lip of the chimb is 12 1/2 inches. [ red. The width of the firkin at its widest point at its belly is 16-17 inches. [ green. The circumference of the firkin at its widest point at its belly is 49 inches. [ green. The length of the firkin from back chimb [ blue. A love affa...
