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January/February 2001

January/February 2001

Check out the featured stories, such as Roast, Toast, Season and Spice, Introduction To Home Malting, Malt Wisdom, Cult Classics: Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale, New Department: Extract Experiements, American Homebrewers Association FAQ, For Geeks Only: The Use of Handheld Refractometers by Homebrewers and Observations on Mash Hopping.

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Cover Story

Roast, Toast, Season And Spice

By Randy Mosher

Making your own custom grains can add complexity and unique flavor components to your brews. And, best of all, it can be done right in your own kitchen. Here’s how.

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Zymurgy: January/February 2001

Introduction To Home Malting

In the old days, every brewer was a maltster. And if you couldn’t make good malt, you didn’t make good beer. The world has changed of course, but some folks just have to do things the hard way. This article tells what you need to know to start practicing the maltster’s art in your brewery.

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Zymurgy: January/February 2001

Malt Wisdom

A master maltster might taste a sample of malt and tell you not only the type of malt and variety of barley, but what state that barley was grown in. In this age of change in the brewing world, such wisdom adds valuable insight and perspective to our practice of the brewer’s art.

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Zymurgy: January/February 2001

Cult Classics: Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale

Seasonal strong beers have long been the stuff of legend among American craft beer drinkers. This feature chronicles the history and culture of one of the most well-known and most anticipated of these annual legends.

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Zymurgy: January/February 2001

New Department: Extract Experiments

Our newest department puts kits into the hands of good brewers to see what they’ll come up with. The resulting five recipes show the way to some great extract beers.

Recipes in this Issue

  • Jason’s Porter
  • Cooper’s Sparkling Ale Clone
  • Duvel Clone
  • New American Ale
  • Beyond the Ordinary Ordinary
  • Up Your Kilt, Scotty!
  • Ridgewood E.S.B.
  • Rye Beer with Weisen Yeast
  • Mill Rd. Lager
  • Zinger Champagne
  • Jay’s No Boil Bitter
  • Dan’s Belgian Dubbel
  • Bill’s India Pale Ale
  • Ron’s Extra Special Bitter

Meet the Editor-in-Chief

Dave Carpenter

Dave brewed his first batch in 2009 and started writing about beer soon thereafter. In addition to geeking out on beer and language, Dave enjoys hiking, traveling, and other gerunds as well. Email Dave