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June 16th, 2008

Hoppy Beering: A Quick Primer on Hops Vines

I hate it when I read the description of a beer and I don’t know what it means. I figure this is usually the result of one of two things:
1, the person who wrote the description likes confusing me by using words to describe the beer that no one else would actually use because […]

By Kelly -- 2 comments

May 19th, 2008

Beer Moves in Mysterious Ways

Check out this great video from NPR’s Science Friday series…

Chemists Richard Zare of Stanford University in California (USA) and Andy Alexander of University of Edinburgh (Scotland) explain the science behind the bubbles in beer.
(Hat tip: What’s On Tap)

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By Kelly -- 0 comments

April 3rd, 2008

Green beer, not green beer

The new food industry blog Daily Blender gave me an idea with a post on the carbon footprint of bottled water. Having recently switched from delivered water to Philly’s finest tap water, I began to wonder what the most environmentally responsible way was to enjoy my beer.
Fortunately for me, others have already addressed the details. […]

By Chris -- 2 comments

February 19th, 2008

The science of foam

There are a lot of jobs I think I’d like. I’d like to be a brewmaster, but ultimately I’d rather be someone like Ed Stoudt of the Stoudt’s brewery, who seems to do more tasting than he does brewing. Also on the tasting side of things, there’s always beer journalist, a la Michael Jackson, although […]

By Chris -- 0 comments

February 1st, 2008

Does your beer look like this?

Unfortunately for the less technically inclined reader, I’m a bit of a geek for the science of beer and brewing. Even those of you who aren’t interested in science should find this website interesting. The image above? A microscopy view of Grolsch (which I chose over Pilsner Urquell and Samuel Smith Taddy Porter). If you […]

By Chris -- 1 comment