The Hogtown Brewers Earn the 2016 Radegast Club of the Year Award
The Hogtown Brewers of Gainesville, Florida were named the 2016 Radegast Club of the Year.
Please Urge Your California State Senator to Support AB 2172
Legislation Would Permit Homebrew Clubs to Meet, Hold Competitions and Share Their Beer Amongst Themselves at Licensed Establishments. The American Homebrewers Association is supporting an effort led by the California Homebrewers Association to pass legislation on behalf of California’s homebrewers. Your action is…
That’s a Good Looking Beer!
Originally published in the September/October 2003 issue of Zymurgy magazine On Saturday Night Live, Billy Crystal's character Fernando used to say, "It's better to look good than to feel good, and dahling, you look mahvelous." Well, I wouldn't go quite…
10 Tips for Easier Bottling
Originally published in the September/October 2001 issue of Zymurgy magazine Bottling homebrew has fallen out of favor these days for many experienced homebrewers who feel that it takes too much time and is too labor intensive. A lot of folks…
Brewing Champagne Beer
Originally published in the May/June 2006 issue of Zymurgy magazine For more than a generation, the "champagne of beers" failed to live up to its billing. No leap of imagination could conjure a magical beverage from that pale yellow, ghostly beer.…
Constructing a Keezer
Originally published in the January/February 2013 issue of Zymurgy magazine. I’ve been brewing beer for just over four years now. When I began brewing, those with more experience told me that bottling beer was the worst, most tedious part of the…
Showcasing Your Homebrew: Jockey Boxes
Originally published in the May/June 2009 issue of Zymurgy magazine. A jockey box is a portable dispensing device used to chill beer just in time for serving, removing the need to keep kegs cold. A jockey box needs to be functional,…
Frozen: Making Ice Cider
Originally published in the November/December 2014 issue of Zymurgy magazine. Ice cider, like ordinary hard cider, is a fermented drink made from apples, but the juice from the apples is concentrated before fermentation by freezing—that’s the ice part—and fermentation is…
Perry: The Other Cider
Originally published in the November/December 2001 issue of Zymurgy magazine. “Wine made of the juice of Peares called in English Perry, is soluble, purgeth those that are not accustomed to drinke thereof; notwithstanding it is as wholesome a drinke being taken in…
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