The January/February 2025 Zymurgy highlights the 2024 National Homebrew Competition winners, 2024 GABF Pro-Am winners, homebrewing gadgets, lager coolships, and brewing in the Guianas.
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The National Homebrew Competition is the world’s largest stage for amateur homebrewers to display their skills, creativity, and passion for fermentation, and recognizes the most outstanding homebrewed beer, mead, and cider.
The Pro-Am Competition, now in its 18th year, offers commercial brewers and AHA members who have won an award in an AHA- or BJCP-sanctioned competition the chance to partner up and compete for the highest distinctions. Medal-winning recipes provided!
Zymurgy‘s annual gadgets feature is dedicated to homebrewers finding creative, thrifty, do-it-yourself solutions to life’s beermaking problems. Thank you all for sharing your innovative gadgets, hacks, and workarounds.
Few breweries still employ coolships for lagers. The extra step in the process, the maintenance, and the physical footprint of these large wort coolers make it impractical, but you can still find them in many countries, and for good reason.
The Guianas are home to a variety of languages and cultures, and a diverse array of brewing traditions. Join David Schmidt as he learns about the Maroon brewing culture of Suriname and craft brewing in French Guiana.
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
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