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2003-05-09
Author(s): Al Boyce
Welcome to Competition Corner! In this feature, we seek out award-winning brewers from around the country and ask them their strategies and techniques for brewing great beer and winning contests with them. The second brewer in our series is Jeff Swearengin - a member of the "FOAM" (Fellowship of...
2003-04-09
Author(s): Lathe Poland
On a recent visit to downtown Kansas City, staff writer for BeerTools.com, Lathe Poland, discovered the River Market Brewing Company. This friendly little brewery is located directly across the street from The City Market, on the corner of 5th & Walnut. When I walked in the door, I was welcomed by...
2003-03-09
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What's it like to own a homebrew shop? Its harder work than most people seem to think. You don’t just sit around all day waiting for customers, and dream up beer recipes, read brewing books or magazines, or brew in between. There is a lot of planning that goes into running this type of business...
2003-03-01
Author(s): Charlie Essers
A Recipe From a Stranger There seems to be a strange need when we first start homebrewing to to brew everything as high in alcohol as possible. I can’t explain it, but I was afflicted with it too. Thankfully we do get over that, but the upside for me was a chance to try beer styles I had never...
2003-02-10
Author(s): Lathe Poland
If you ever find yourself in Charleston, SC be sure to stop by the Southend Brewery and Smokehouse. Jeff and I were glad that we did. Like its fine crafted beer, Southend Brewery and Smokehouse must be experienced to be fully appreciated. Southend Brewery and Smokehouse opened in Charleston on June...
2003-01-23
Author(s): Al Boyce
Welcome to Competition Corner! In this feature, we will seek out award-winning brewers from around the country and ask them their strategies and techniques for brewing great beer and winning contests with them. Our very first brewer is Steve Piatz (pictured) - a member of the Minnesota Home...
2003-01-12
Author(s): Jeff Fowler, Lathe Poland
It was late 2000 that the GOLD membership was conceived. It was an outlet for Jeff to develop some more advanced features for the calculator. In the process of building the advanced features into the calculator we ended up with two very different calculators. The first (the one we now call Basic)...
2003-01-02
Author(s): Lathe Poland
If you are like BeerTools founder Jeff Fowler you are tired of the hassles associated with one or two pot brewing. It can be a nuisance to control flow when transferring sparge water, extract, and wort using hose clamps. How about the joy of negotiating burner space to maintain the sparge water and...
2002-12-20
Author(s): Ray Mills
Ray Mills of Bulli, New South Wales was the most awarded Brewer at the 2002 Australian National Competition. He walked away with first prize for his Robust Porter. Additional he netted two second place trophies. In the 2002 Queensland State Competition he was awarded champion brewer and picked up...
2002-06-14
Author(s): Al Boyce
Name In The Road was awarded a Silver Medal in the Pale Ale category of the first annual Upper Mississippi Mash-Out homebrew competition, with the awards ceremony taking place at the Summit Brewery in St.Paul, Minnesota on May 5, 2002. (See the recipe to see the explanation for the rather odd name)...
