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56Beer - Top 8 Keys to Improving Quality - 1 & 2
Beginning brewers sometimes get discouraged when they finally get to taste the fruits of their labor. Often, their beers simply don't live up to their expectations. When comparing their beers to those made by...
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54Penticton BC - There's a festival for everyone
Penticton is dubbed as BC's City of Festival. All year round, this city celebrates one festival after another. You can come at any time and join in the fun.
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72Walking in London - Bricks, Pubs and Canals - Part 2 - Pubs, mainly
What constitutes a great pub? Is it the history, the decor, the management, the clientele, or the beer? For me, none of these things. A great pub is the one which is conveniently there, and open, just when I want to find one. And the best beer is always the next one.
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67Beer - Chilling The Wort
This type of system dramatically decreases the risk of contamination during cooling since the wort is only exposed to the environment while it is still too warm for microorganisms to survive. When the wort...
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67Beer - The Unique Oud Bruin - Part 1
Oud Bruin: it's an exotic sounding name for a beer. Yet in the Flemish language, it means simply, "old brown." A simple name is somewhat fitting, since this beer style was probably rather ordinary at one...
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68Beer - The Unique Oud Bruin - Part 4
Authentic Oud Bruin, like lambic, is one of the more difficult styles for home brewers and most professionals to reproduce. This is due to the use of traditional brewing practices, antiquated equipment,...
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65Beer - Sailing The Coolship
In the course of your reading about brewing you may have run across the term, "coolship." Some of you may have wondered, "what the heck is a coolship anyway?" No, it's not a boat full of guys dressed in chav...
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62Beer - Top 8 Keys to Improving Quality - 7 & 8
7. Practice Makes Perfect Well, almost. It is a fact that the more you do something, the better you become at doing it. This holds true with brewing. Many brewers spend years just brewing the same beer in...
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62Beer - The Unique Oud Bruin - Part 2
Most brewers of the unique Oud Bruin style rely on pale malts, such as Belgian pilsner, for the bulk of the grist. Small percentages of the more highly colored Munich and Vienna are sometimes used. However,...
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62Beer - Ancient Art and Modern Science
Brewing is an ancient art dating back to about five thousand years ago. It was likely discovered by accident in the area called the Fertile Crescent, an area where barley, along with other wild grasses grew...
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