Long Island Homebrew Clubs Forage for Locally Grown Beer
This article originally published in the Club News section of the Jan/Feb 2018 issue of Zymurgy magazine. This past August, author and renowned craft beer authority Stan Hieronymus visited the New York City/Long Island…
DC Homebrewers Club Celebrates 10 Years
The DC Homebrewers club turns 10 on Jan. 15, 2018, and is celebrating the milestone with the release of a collaboration beer brewed with Right Proper Brewing Co.
Southern Hemisphere Homebrewing
[This article is the online extra article of the January/February 2018 issue of Zymurgy magazine.] At the second annual South American Homebrewers Cup (2ª Copa Sudamericana de Homebrewers), a wise man pointed out to me…
Homebrewing: A Tasteful Act of Revolution
This post was originally published on BrewmanceMovie.com. Learn more about the Brewmance documentary, which follows three groups of homebrewers as they adventure into the world of professional craft brewing. *…
SoCal Cerveceros: A Revolutionary Homebrew Club That Supports Young Latino Brewers
"For the last three years, SoCal Cerveceros members have come from across the L.A. basin for meetings held at a rotation of Latino-owned breweries, taprooms, restaurants and homebrew supply stores. At each, they bring new experimental beers to try, give…
Copa Cerveza Mexico 2016
This article is the July/August 2017 Zymurgy magazine online extra. * * * Last November, I traveled to Mexico to serve as one of 22 judges in Copa Cerveza, the largest craft beer competition in the country. I was…
[Video] Celebrating Homebrew Day Around the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKhTgnobo0c In honor of National Homebrew Day, our friends at Ornery Ales Productions took to social media and asked its followers to send videos of their homebrew equipment, their latest brew, and their locations. Most of our followers are outside…
Brewing Brewers: Beer in College is Not What You Think
Today’s college kids are not the same. I see them as freshmen, and again as seniors, and the evolution is stark. Most freshmen have never lived away from home or had a job. They’ve been shuttled from sports to lessons,…
GABF Pro-Am Entrants Talk Homebrewing, Share Recipes
Qualifiers of the 2016 Great American Beer Festival Pro-Am Competition discuss the experience of bringing a homebrew recipe to the masses with the help of commercial breweries.