Q & Ale – What is a Diacetyl? What Causes It?
Diacetyl is one of the most common off-flavors in beer. As someone who works in the industry, it’s something I’ve become intimately familiar with. I’ve […]
Diacetyl is one of the most common off-flavors in beer. As someone who works in the industry, it’s something I’ve become intimately familiar with. I’ve […]
Bottle conditioning is certainly not the sexiest of beer topics. In all the classes I’ve taught, I don’t think I’ve had one person ask about […]
I recently read a blog post discussing Czech beers and how the beers are classified. It was completely wrong. I won’t say what or […]
“Skunky” is one of the most common sensory adjectives I see applied to beer that has “gone bad.” In beer terms, skunky has become sort […]
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be peppering in a few of my most popular posts as I celebrate the two-year anniversary of this blog: […]
Recently, my friend Bobby emailed with a beer question. He had a charity event where they had cans of Hopworks chilled in tubs of ice. […]
I received this question via my “Contact Me” link. Cody from Illinois asked this, to paraphrase ” I was wondering if you knew a good way […]
I received this question via my “Contact Me” link. Cody from Illinois asked this, to paraphrase ” I was wondering if you knew a good way […]
I’ve run across this question/assumption quite a bit lately and decided to tackle it for this edition of Q & Ale. Are all sour beers spontaneously fermented? […]
This is a question that has come up a lot over the last 6 months surrounding the excitement of the 12/12/12 worldwide, one-time release of […]
One of the more common questions I get when teaching classes about beer or when hosting beer dinners is: “What is “dry hopping?” In the […]
One of the more common searches that leads to my page involves the label of Blanche de Bruxelles. Blanche de Bruxelles (my review) is a Belgian Wit/Blanche […]
Today’s Q & Ale question was brought to me via search engines such as Google. I’ve actually seen some version of this question several times […]