Good Beer
August 29, 2011
Good Beer
Twenty years or so ago beer and other alcoholic drinks were generally considered unhealthy. This hasn’t always been the case.
Historically beer was seen as beneficial and rightly so because it was often more sanitary than local water supplies. The water used to make beer was boiled early on in the brewing process which killed any pathogens. The alcohol produced during fermentation and the addition of hops helped to preserve it. Until modern civic water treatment plants became common beer was often the only source of sanitary hydration.
Beer glass There was a time when no food was too fancy for beer. Then along came ostrich meat.
It’s a new ballgame out there in the food world, with access to meats, fruits and vegetables that a few years ago we could never enjoy without the aid of a plane ticket. The upscaling of the American palate has been going full tilt ever since that first clog-wearing chef daringly put a sundried tomato next to a pile of cous cous on a dinner plate somewhere deep in the foothills of northern California. And whatever upscaling has happened to food in the last ten years has happened to beer in just the blink of an eye.
So how can you take advantage of all this upscaling? First of all, you have to realize that beer is just as serious an element in today’s gastronomy as, say mushrooms or sherry. Gone are the days when you could, with any seriousness, say, “”this dish goes well with beer. “” There are simply too many choices available today to pretend that “”beer”" represents a single flavor.
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Beer TapSecond, you must impress this fact upon your servers and other employees. Many folks still gloss over their beer list as if it merely represented the same flavor in fourteen different bottles. You would expect a server to know the difference between a chardonnay and a merlot, why not between a pilsner and an India Pale Ale? And to make things worse, plenty of servers still think that beer is somehow the chump’s choice at dinner. An attitude like that can lead to a lost sale or a lost customer — which can hurt your profits.
Third, you must match your selection to your clientele and food. Just as there’s no point in trying to sell high-end beer in a corner tappie, there’s no strategy to limiting your beer selection to the usual industrially-brewed stuff in an upscale context. Good food deserves good beer. And if you think you can compete today without a little attention in this department, then you’re missing the boat.
Just as everybody had to get over the information hump when products like gaszpacho, orange roughie, broccoli rabe and hummous came on the scene, we have a similar hump to get over in the beer world before we can sell beer effectively. Already you can see it starting to happen in Philadelphia: people are beginning to understand that beers are separated into ale and lager, not light and dark; and that there’s more money to be made by selling a Duvel at .00 than a Rolling Rock at .50. We all want to give our customers something special at our establishment — whether it’s decor, service, concept, or food. Why not apply that standard to the beer list, as well?
Beer KegBalance your list by offering a variety of styles, as you would with your wine or liquor list. You offer salads, meats, fowl, and pasta for the different tastes and moods of your customers. Offer them pale ales, fruit beers, wheat beers and stouts for the same reasons. Try taking advantage of the array of beers available in 220z. or 750ml. bottles, which gives parties the opportunity to share, making for a more social and memorable dining experience. And give your customers the same quality of beer choices as you give them with your food.
The decision is yours, so why not give a few new beers a try — given the low cost of even the world’s finest beers, isn’t it worth taking a chance on something special?
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Using Your Home Brew Kit Properly
August 26, 2011
Using Your Home Brew Kit Properly
Lots of time the urge to finally take the plunge into home brewing comes when you went to the brew pub and paid ten dollars for an imported beer of one that was brewed in their pub. And even if that beer is good, it’s easy to start to suspect that you could do as well making beer and that your beer would be perfectly fresh and would cost a lot less than ten dollars a glass to enjoy this flavor all the time. When that thought crossed your mind, the home brewer in you is born.
The community of beer lovers is very large as documented in the huge beer sales that stay consistent around the world. That is why it is almost a shame and a crime when beer is mass produced and bad beer is sold so widely. It’s a crime because it is so easy to make really good beer. If you have that desire to enjoy the finest of this ancient recipe and maybe crossing the line to want to BE a maker of great beer, you will find that getting started on this great hobby is far easier than you may have thought. And yes while you will have to learn a few things about the process of making beer, it will be more fun than any class you took in high school for sure because you are learning to make something you love and you get to drink your final exam!
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Unlike school though, once you get down the basic process of home brewing, the variety of “right answers” to how to make a great beer are diverse and fun to play with. You can try different grains, hops and yeast combinations. You can adjust when each ingredient is added and learn how to balance the bitter flavor with the hops flavor to give you a deep rich blend or a light beer and all using the same equipment and much the same ingredients. So with that enticement to the fun and endless variety you can find in a hobby of home brewing, it’s just a matter of getting started.
It’s very easy to fall under the influence of “beer purists” who will advocate very expensive and complicated equipment and using exotic ingredients to make a beer of very high quality and taste. If you make it a practice to socialize at the home brewing retailer or at home brewing clubs or web sites, it’s easy to pick up that side of the home brewing community that is very particular and advanced in the craft of home brewing.
But it is important to remember that just starting out that you are not a home brewing purist yet! And its best not to try to be one because starting out, its best to let others help you get some very basic equipment so you can learn the craft of home brewing and develop your skills easily and without so much pressure. If you spend thousands on very elaborate and hard to operate equipment too soon, you will be frustrated and if the outcome is not just right, you will be disappointed. So cut yourself some slack and buy just the basics and just learn to make a very down to earth starter batch of beer. If it is drinkable at all after you step through the process a few times, you are doing great. And you have all the time in the world to learn your craft and grow until you can afford to be a “beer purist” and be fussy and particular too.
So don’t be ashamed to buy a basic beer making kit at the beer retailer store or online to get you started. These kits come with all you need in equipment and supplies to step through making your first few batches of beer. It’s important you give yourself the time to use these starter kits to learn your basic skills. Then once you have the basics, it will be great fun to buy different types of grains, hops and yeasts and experiment to refine your skills. That is a natural way to learn and away to become along time beer making enthusiasts and enjoy this wonderful hobby for many years to come.
Brewing Beer for Beginners
August 23, 2011
Brewing Beer for Beginners
The Beer Machine – An Ultimate Home Brewing Device for Beginners
Brewing Beer is a fantastic hobbie and very addictive. You can really impress your friends with great tasting home made beer. The beauty is that when you brew your own you have the opportunity to make virtually hundreds of styles of beer.
The world is facing a serious shortage of barley, a key factor in producing beer. There is continually less barley farmers every day, they have found other things to grow which sell for more which is causing the shortage. Because of the shortage of Barley, the price for beer is steadily on the rise, and there is a lot more people getting into brewing their own beverages. Now the hobbie is well practiced amongst both young and old, throughout the world.
If you want to learn how to make beer at home, and are new to home brewing, the most inexpensive and simple way to get started is with a Beer Machine. It the perfect device for beginners who want to get started brewing their own beer.
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The Beer Machine Ltd. has been established for over 20 years now and ships 10 000’s of Beer Machines each year to doorsteps around the world. The Beer Machine is a self-contained, single-step brewer that makes brewing your own fresh premium naturally made beer as easy as brewing coffee.
Once purchased, you have the option to brew any style of beer imaginable for literally pennies a bottle! The fermentor produces 2 gallons of great tasting beer in as little as 7 days. Each kit is completely reusable and includes everything you need to start brewing batches of beer.
It doesn’t get much easier to drink beer than this. Except maybe some of that store bought beer – but where’s the fun in that?
Once you Tap your first batch of Beer Machine brew, it will be the first of many and the beginning of a long term relationship. To visit the official website Click Here
Home Brewing Equipment: Kegs Are Simple and Cheap
August 20, 2011
Home Brewing Equipment: Kegs Are Simple and Cheap
Brewing beer at home using kegs is actually a simple process. If you are unfamiliar with how to do this, you cannot take advantage of an opportunity to save tons of money. Are you still uncertain about whether to try? Then, think about this for a moment. Did you know that brewing beer at home using kegs has a cost of about 6$ per gallon?
Home Brewing Beer Kits
So, if you want to jump on this great idea, you need to purchase a home brewing beer kit that includes a keg, a tap, and other supplies you will need, such as hops and containers. A home brew beer kit will only cost you about . And, for your investment, you can brew beer at home using kegs. Once you get a taste of the final product, you will never go back to any other way again.
Depending on your skill level and the amount of beer you want to make, the price of the home brew beer kit can vary. No matter what, when you brew beer at home using kegs, you can make a tasty brew that will turn out exactly the way you like it. This is a pursuit that is worth your time. If you brew beer at home using your kegs, you can come home after a hard day on the job and enjoy a frosty glass of beer you made yourself. Is there really anything better than the feeling of putting the perfect brew of beer to your lips?
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Once you have bought a home brew beer kit, you must be careful to follow each instruction to the letter and measure each ingredient in an exact manner. If you variate even a tad, the taste of the beer can come out different than you had hoped. Brewing beer using kegs has become such a popular method, there are brew beer at home radio stations and pubs that advocate making unpasteurized beer.
In order to brew beer at home using kegs, you have to know about the sugar to ethyl alcohol conversion process and the fermentation process of yeast and carbon dioxide. When comparing beer brewed at home to big-name beer, the difference is in the scale of beer made. You can brew any kind of beer your imagination dreams up, as long as you have brewing know-how and ability.
So, if you want to make beer with a quality that is on par with commercial brands, you need the correct home brewing equipment and an ability with a certain refinement. You will soon be on your way to making beer that is second to none.
Buy Beer Brew Starter Kits-Hold On A Minute!
August 17, 2011
Buy Beer Brew Starter Kits-Hold On A Minute!
One of the earliest, modern attempts to regulate private production that affected this era was the Inland Revenue Act of 1880 in the United Kingdom; this required a 5-shilling home brewing license. There is a majority of people who fail to brew a successful batch of beer (over 75%), try to avoid being a statistic.
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Brewing on a domestic level has been done for thousands of years, but has been subject to regulation and prohibition. States remain free to restrict, or even prohibit, the manufacture of beer, mead, hard cider, wine and other alcoholic beverages at home. For example, Ala. Please pour yourself a cold one and sit back and enjoy this read.
Knowledge of brewing beer and wine was passed on from the Egyptians to the Greeks and finally to the Romans. Alcohol has been brewed domestically throughout its 7000-year history beginning in Mesopotamia, Egypt and China. The ticket is making an amazing beer that commercial beer brewers would like to keep secret from the public.
The goal these days is to build a good beer brewed from fresh grain and hops, one that is pure all-grain wort, made the same way as those very good commercial micro brewed beers, otherwise what is the point of brewing your own beer, right? Either brew some good stuff or just go buy it. In the United Kingdom, diverse pioneers were home winemakers owing to the greater availability of information and ingredients. These included C. J. J.
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Primary fermentation of home brewing takes place in a large glass or plastic carboys or food-grade plastic bucket, nearly always sealed. Home brewers can make beers in a variety of styles. Cider Beer making kits are frequently pre-boiled with the hops.
Sometimes known as beer in a can, no-boil, and hopped wort; beer kits contain liquid malt extract that, when reconstituted with water, produces wort. Wort is typically boiled for an hour to two hours, which allows the beer to be infused with hop flavor and which also has the effect of sterilizing the liquid so that it will not be contaminated before the addition of yeast.
Having a high quality beer making guide that will enhance and help you complete the beer making sustain is paramount. A guide that will steer you clear of trouble and remedy you with the equipment choices and the best quality ingredients like those from Muntons, Coopers, Briess and Brewers Best to name just a few. Home brewing can be cheaper than buying commercially equivalent beverages; it can allow people to adjust recipes to their own tastes (creating beverages that are unavailable on the open market, or low-ethanol beverages which may contain less calories and so be less-fattening); or people may enjoy entering home brew competitions. Quit spending your money on poor tasteless commercial beer from the local store! All you home beer brewers should have the very best start admissible for a great beer making meet.
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There are home brewing methods that can save you hard earned cash at the same time allowing you to brew some of the best beer ever made right at home.
Brew Beer Bible – The Ultimate D.i.y Beer Brewing Guide
August 14, 2011
Brew Beer Bible – The Ultimate D.i.y Beer Brewing Guide
Yes, it’s true. I did a taste test with some of the top restaurant owners in my area. They all told me that the quality of beer which I produced would be more than worthy for serving in their very bars and pubs (some even said it was better than certain commercial brands!). As well, you’ll learn:
Exactly what you need to know to start from the first to the final step to becoming an expert at making crisp, delicious and hearty homemade beer!
The secrets to making amazing beer that most beer brewers would rather hide from the public – stop being put in the dark!
Discover where to go to get all of the necessary equipment needed to brew unforgettable tasting beer!
After going through and purchasing all the other junk guides out there for beer brewing (unfortunately I’ve lost a lot of money due to this fact), I’ve come to realize that most of them are nothing but cheap talk and fluff with only a few good tips lost in between the bullshit.
Another fact, most of these so called ‘guides’ just tell you where to buy the expensive kits
for making beer at home (some of these guides & kits cost over 0-200 dollars!), this does NOT save you money!
The guide and methods inside Brew Beer Bible are 100% made to save you money while at the same time allowing you to brew some of the best beer you’ve ever made!
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The 5 Biggest Myths About Home Brewing Beer
August 11, 2011
The 5 Biggest Myths About Home Brewing Beer
Whether you’re just starting to think about brewing your own beer or you’ve been brewing your whole life, you’ve probably come across a lot of misconceptions about home brewing. Maybe some of the things you’ve heard have even stopped you from trying home brewing before.
Well it’s time to bust those myths!
Here are the five biggest myths about home brewing beer:
5. Home Brewed Beer Tastes Funny
Nope! In fact, most home brewers will tell you thatt home brewed beer is just as delicious if not better than store-bought beer. This is because home brewed beer is usually much fresher than anything you’ll find in a can. In fact, home brewed beers dominate most beer tasting competitions.
4. Home Brewing Beer Takes A Lot of Skill
False! If you can boil water and follow instructions, you can make beer. Home brewing is kind of like making soup – just a soup that has to wait 3 weeks to be ready. Yes, it can get complicated but you don’t have to make it complicated to brew great beer. Whether you use a pre-made ingredient kit or just find the right recipe, anyone can home brew.
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3. Brewing Your Own Beer Isn’t Legal
That’s just not true! Brewing your own beer is legal almost everywhere. In the US, Congress even passed an act in 1978 allowing individuals over 21 to brew up to 100 gallons of beer in a year at home. Want to know if home brewing is legal where you live? Read more about the Legalities of Home Brewing Beer Here.
2. I Won’t Be Able to Make Anything That Tastes Like My Favorite Store-Bought Beer
Wrong Again. Whether you love Killians, Heineken, or Sierra Nevada there are literally hundreds of recipes out there designed to help you clone the taste your favorite beers. All at a fraction of the cost of buying beer from a store.
1. Home Brewing Costs a Lot of Money to Start.
HELL NO. Most people think in order to start brewing beer at home, you need to spend at least 0. In fact, the most common mistake new home brewers make is spending too much on their brewing equipment. (And we’re sure lots of brewing supply companies would love to keep it that way). The truth: You can start brewing your own beer at home for only .
What are you waiting for! Want to get started? Find out how Home Brewing Beer can save you 0 a year!
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A Brewing Society
August 8, 2011
A Brewing Society
One of the reasons the hobby of home brewing is so popular is that you are not just taking up a pastime, you are becoming part of a closely knit society of home brewing that has its own culture, language and social structure that is unique to brewers alone.
Of course, the social aspect of drinking beer is well known. The infrastructure of pubs and bars that offers to patrons a place of comfort, friendship, fun and relaxation is about a lot more than just tipping back a delicious drink,. It is a part of our social fabric that goes back to revolutionary times when our most important documents were hashed out over a beer. And the importance of sharing a beer is just as powerful today as we all enjoyed thinking about that bar where “everybody knows your name” called Cheers.
So just as the social aspect of enjoying a beer with others is strong and well entrenched in our culture, so too is the art of making beer a deeply rooted part of society that goes back generations. That popularity has regular revivals and we are seeing a surge of interest in brewing today as all over the country brew pubs are springing up around delicious home grown beers that in many cases are far better than the mass produced beers that are heavily advertised during the Super Bowl.
This well developed and sophisticated brewing subculture not only will be of great help to you as you start to learn about becoming a home brewer yourself, it will become a society that is a lot of fun to be part of and where you may make friends for life as you share with others your love of making your own beer. In America the grass roots level subculture of home brewing is growing fast. This is no small concern to the big retail brewers who cannot possibly make the quality and rich kinds of beers that can be made at the local level. But this is a natural evolution as we follow our cousins in the UK where keg beers made locally dominate the world of beer consumption in a culture where pubs are a central part of the fabric of society.
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One reason home brewing has such an appeal is the tremendous diversity of beers you can produce and the control you have over flavor, consistency and alcohol levels. In most cases, once you have your basic equipment for brewing beer, it is cheaper to make your own beer. And there is something satisfying about brewing up a big batch of beer to put back to ferment as you enjoy a five gallon batch you made last month. Beer brewers can become quite obsessed with flavor, color and “punch” and always be looking for new ways to become better at this fun and interesting hobby.
Whatever level of involvement in beer making appeals to you, you can probably find new friends in the beer brewing society that you can share your hobby with. There are beer brewing radio stations and ham radio channels devoted to helping amateur brewers share their secret recopies and solve each other’s problems. And there are home made beer competitions with beer kits that can really put some challenge that all on you to make that blue ribbon beer that rally makes the judges sit up and take notice. We recommend the Coopers Beer Kits for novice users.
So as you find yourself getting more and more enthusiastic and “caught up” in the fun of home brewing, don’t be embarrassed by that because you can find a diverse assortment of other beer making enthusiasts to share your hobby with. So have fun, make friends, make good beer and above all, share your beer and your knowledge with others. Because beer is about more than good drink. It’s about good times with good people as well.
Beer: A Story Being Told Through Beverages Versus Words
August 5, 2011
Beer: A Story Being Told Through Beverages Versus Words
I should firstly note that I come from a world of wine, not beer. I spent seven years working in the restaurant industry in high end fine dining dealing with the greatest and rarest wines the world has to offer. I was given a chance to change my scenery and take on a project far greater than anything I had experienced and I took it. The world of beer! I entered a world that I had never known existed and with four months of intensive training in one of Denver’s fastest growing Beer Halls I have learned a lot and I wanted to share that knowledge.
There are some important things to understand about beer that makes it so much more exciting and different than the world of wine. For one you can’t have a bad vintage. With wine you you can blame people, climate, weather, any number of things for why your vintage is not up to par. With wine they will still bottle and sell that one, knowing its not up to par. With beer that can’t happen. Every beer put out has to be exactly what was intended while brewing. Wine is similar to a long term savings plan. Change doesn’t happen rapidly and its about making a portfolio for the years to come; That’s why you see the same vineyards producing the same couple of bottles a year now until forever. Beer on the other hand is similar to day trading. There are new beers coming out daily! Breweries do have their seasonal beers (found all year long) but they do collaborations with other breweries, have series of beers for special release, and barrel aging programs. One brewery out of Fort Collins, Co. is changing the game entirely when it comes to Beer and Wine; Their telling a story, that which has never been done.
Avery began in 1993 out of Fort Collins, Co. making large flavored beer. They are known to make some of the most flavorful and hopiest beers on the market. They are also quickly becoming known as the “Aging Brewery”. A great wine is one that can age for years, mellowing out the tannins and bringing out the fruit equating in a very balanced beverage. Avery is making beer that is done the same way. While on first sip of most of their beers you’ll find they are massive in character and flavor, however after aging for a few years you’ll notice they the massiveness they seemed to impart up front, subdues and balances out into one of the most magical moments you’ll ever have when sipping a beer; Let alone a beverage.
In 2005 Avery began their Demonic Ale Series. These are very dark and massively flavorful beers with high abv that have the potential to be aged for years to come. They are the dark side of Avery. One of three Demonic Ales is Mephistopheles. This is a tremendous dark stout with bitter malts reminding me of sipping a double espresso straight but like the shape shifter himself, changes from sip to sip. Mephistopheles is also a major character in Goethe’s Faust.
In 2006 Adam Avery traveled to Belgium to learn about barrel aging from the masters. He then began his Barrel Aging program to show another side to Avery Brewing Company: Sour beers. On Friday the 28th of January Avery will be unveiling their 6th barrel aged beer: Margarete. Margarete was Faust’s love interest and an instrument of Mephistopheles to win his wager with God. Margarete is no shining light in Faust’s story. She’s a very dark character and one that is portrayed as such perfectly through Avery’s barrel aging program.
Margarete was brewed using a lighter and more sweet version of Mephistopheles. Still a massively powerful stout but with sweeter malts versus bitter, she was aged for 11 months in bourbon barrels with sour cherries. The outcome one might ask? A sour stout that has feminine qualities versus masculine yet is equally as powerful as the Mephistopheles Stout.
This is why I love beer and am a huge advocate of Avery Brewing Company. They are telling a story, one that began in 1808 (Goethe’s Faust), revisited in 2005 with Mephistopheles and another chapter in the story of Faust with Margarete’s birth in 2011. No vineyard in the world has told a classic story using their wine as a metaphor nor any brewery using their beer to tell stories. All but one, Avery Brewing Company. This gives me up.
Everyone loves a story; Everyone. Avery so far is the only one telling a story, whether they planned for it or not, and here it is. I can only hope the world of wine takes a note on this and changes their bottling program to be as creative as Avery has been. I do hope that breweries take a notice as to what Avery has been up to and revamps their beer program. And lastly, I pray that this is not the story of Faust coming into fruition, but rather just another chapter in this story as we await Avery to make their Faust. Maybe I’ll make a wager with the Mephistopheles such as Faust once did in order to see the story continue to be told.
Biggest Beer Drinkers in the World
August 2, 2011
Biggest Beer Drinkers in the World
When you walk into a pub, the scent of beer instantly hits you. I’ve often wondered who drinks the most beer on an international scale. Everyone knows how popular the beverage is with us Australian’s, but I’ve heard many a time that the best beers are made in Germany. I’m sure I wouldn’t be punished for thinking that German’s are the biggest beer consumers, I mean, does Oktoberfest happen over there for the sake of it? After a little research, I found that while beers produced in Germany might be some of the most popular, those German’s aren’t the biggest beer drinkers. Certainly, Germany is in the list of top five consumers, but they aren’t first like I initially thought. Want to know who is? Read on to find out.
Five: Austria
During the middle ages, Monks were the only beer makers in Austria. Soon after the concept was mastered by the Monks, the bourgeoisie moved in, acting as the main economic source for the country in the 11th century. It was also during this time when people within Austria besides the Monks were able to produce beer. The 14th century saw beer being served in public bars (which is where the word “pub” stems from), the first official brewery opened in Vienna and Austrian beer became serious business when many brands of the drink were celebrated at the Paris World Fair. Austria is considered one of the biggest beer exporters in the world and natives consume 200 pints annually per person at home and in pubs around the country.
Four: Australia
The history of beer dates back to the time of Captain Cook’s arrival. Cook transported beer with him when traveling from England to Australia and believed the beer could be used as a method of preserving clean drinking water. The Australian way of beer making was a method bringing the processes used in both England and Continental European nations. The first brewery opened in Kissing Point in Sydney, but it wasn’t until the Government set up their own brewery that the beer industry really kicked off in pubs around Australia. Since then, breweries have popped up around the country, with Cascade brewery in Tasmania the biggest in the country. South Australia, Western Australia and Victoria soon followed in Tasmania’s footsteps. Any individual Australian will consume 110 liters of beer annually.
Three: Germany
Beer was born here in 800 B.C. Evidence was found in ancient scripture where beer was used as sacrifice to medieval God’s. Throughout time, Monks were responsible for the development of beer, making it in monasteries. The Monks were interested by the scientific aspect of beer making and gradually started to include hops within the mixture. This method was to be known as the cloister as it was discovered in Brabant Cloister Zum Wurzen. It was in this period that marketing of beer as a product took off on an international scale, the task of brewing became known as a respectable occupation, exporting of beer around the world was thriving and a purity law was introduced. The law, enacted in 1516, said that beer could only be brewed from barley malt, hops, water and later, yeast. Germany’s religious and political changes made an impact on the production of beer within the country. We could sit here all day telling you about it, but what I think you really need to know is that today, there are 1200 breweries in Germany, 5000 different brands of beer and German’s consume 121.4 liters per person a year.
Two: Ireland
There has long been a running joke about the Irish having ongoing tendencies for drunkenness. Beer was born during the 19th century, when Arthur Guinis set up the first brewery in Dublin. His first bit of brewing was bitter, but he soon switched to producing porter – a style borrowed from the breweries of London. What set his beer apart from the one created in England’s capital was that he used unmalted roasted barley – giving a drier and more bitter taste. In the 20th century, the Guinness brewery became the largest in the world sharing this new way of beer making with other nations. Ale and Stout also became popular in pubs around Ireland during this time. According to research conducted in 2002, the Irish drink 76 liters of Stout annually per head.
One: The Czech Republic
The Czech’s have been making and consuming beer since 859 A.D. In the beginning, only Czech citizens were able to make beer and the Government ruled that beer could only be made by individuals for their personal use therefore; Czech’s generally had small home breweries. Eventually, many citizens got together in secret breweries where they would start the beer making process before taking the beer extract home to complete the process privately. Beer making was made a publicly legal concept in the 13th century by King Wenceslaswhich kicked off the exporting process of Czech beer to other parts of the world. According to Roman Emperor, Charles IV, the grapes in the Czech Republic were some of the best and in the 16th century, 87 percent of income generated by the country was from the Czech beer industry, with neighbouring Germany the biggest buyer. The country is home to three of the biggest breweries located in Pilsen, Budweis and Bohemia with Lager being the first beer ever produced by Czech’s in 1842. The Northern European country is well and truly beer capital with the first beer museum, the first beer-brewing textbook and the first golden beer in the world. Today, someone from the Czech Republic will consume 159 liters for themselves each year.
How to make Beer Can Chicken. Visit www.summerkitchen.tv to experience a new video cookbook with delicious summertime recipes, perfect for your picnic basket or backyard BBQ table. Ingredients 1 whole chicken 1 tsp of sugar 1 tsp of salt 1 1/2 tsp of paprika 1 tsp of ground black pepper 1/2 tsp of onion powder 1/2 tsp of garlic powder 1/2 tsp of cayenne pepper beer can stand/beer can Instructions 1. Heat the grill to medium high heat. 2. In a small bowl, combine sugar, salt, paprika, ground black pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, and cayenne pepper. 3. Rub the outside and inside cavity with the rub. 4. Tuck the wing tips under. 5. Fill a beer can stand with 1/2 a can of beer, or use a 1/2 filled beer can. 6. Holding the chicken upright, slide it over the stand/can so it fits inside the cavity. 7. Cook with the grill closed for 1 hour and 15 minutes.