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Spiegelau Beer Classics Beer Connoisseur Gift Set, Set of 4 $37.95 This Connoisseur’s set of four beer glasses from Spiegelau feature a unique platinum finishing process to increase durability and add brilliant shine. The thin, laser cut and polished rims maximize your drinking pleasure. These lead-free crystal glasses are great for any occasion and will have you and your guests savoring every sip. The set includes a stemmed pilsner, lager, wheat beer, and tall p… |
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Mr. Beer High Country Canadian Draft Refill Brew Pack $12.99 This Brew Pack has all the ingredients you need to make this summer favorite. It is extremely pale in color and bold in character. An exceptionally hop accented beer, it is preferred by those who demand that extra ?Kick?. This beer brews up clean and impressive.Included:1 High Country Canadian Draft1 BoosterTM (1 Pack)1 One-StepTM (1 Pack)… |
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Beer Tasting Serving Set – Wood Paddle & 4 Glasses $39.99 At a certain point in life, you’d rather have a set of beer tasting glasses than a pair of late-night beer goggles. That’s doubly true when we’re deep in the midst of a beer revolution, and its near impossible to stay on top of all the bold emerging tastes that abound. Luckily, this kit has everything you need to have a fully functional beer tasting. Paddle is made of solid birch wood and holds al… |
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Beer Tasting Tool Kit: How to Choose and Taste Beer Like a Brewer $12.95 There are two types of beer drinkers in this world–those who believe they know everything they need to know about beer, and those who believe they’ll never know enough. If you find yourself in the latter group, this kit will help you on your way to discovering the nuances of artisan beers, from lagers and ales to porters and stouts. Tasting profiles from the 48-page booklet break beers down into … |
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Tasting Beer: $11.18 Tasting Beer |
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Beer Tasting Tool Kit: $16.96 Beer Tasting Tool Kit |
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Beer Tasting Tool Kit $24.95 Discover the nuances of artisan beers from lagers and ales to porters and stouts. The tasting profiles featured in the booklet break down beer into style categories and include information on each variety (background, flavors, aromas, and unique character). Cover your bottles with the included paper sleeves to conduct blind tastings, and record tasting notes. A world of beer awaits! Contains a 48-page book, kraft paper covers, string and other contents stored in a sturdy cardboard box. Size - 7" x 9 1/2" x 2" |
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Beer Tasting Sail $125 Set sail on New York's largest sailing vessel with the craft beer experts from Urban Oyster, and get introduced to the wonderful new world of Craft or Micro Beer.With over 1,500 brewers now making delicious brews all over the country, choosing and appreciating beer has become an art form to rival its cousin wine.Taste several outstanding ales and lagers paired with cheese and charcuterie while you drink in the magnificent views of the skyline of NYC.You'll sail aboard the historic Clipper City, which is an exact reconstruction of the City Clipper ships that sailed the coastal lumber trade in the U.S. during the late 1800's.This is an environmentally friendly experience, as your ship is powered by the wind with auxiliary engines fueled by an eco-friendly bio-diesel mix.What better way to spend a time on the water than taking in the legendary sites of Manhattan while sitting back and sampling beers! |
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Anchor Hocking 90038 Wooden Beer Tasting Paddle, Holds (4) 5-oz Beer Tasters $53.01 Anchor Hocking 90038 Wooden Beer Tasting Paddle, Holds (4) 5-oz Beer Tasters |
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Spiegelau 4-pc. Beer Classics Craft Beer Tasting Gift Set $41.65 The Spiegelau Beer Connoisseur Set's dynamic glass assortment provides for an uparalleled experience in fine beer enjoyment. Craft your own tasting experiences while appreciating how brilliantly clear, functional glass enhances the appearance, aroma and flavor of fine beer. Features: Thin-blown. Thin rim lifts the perception of mouth feel and taste. The beer-specific glass shape supports the beer in releasing its full spectrum of flavors and deliveres them to nose and mouth. Set Includes: 1 Lager Glass (7-in.) 1 Pilsner Glass (8.75-in.) 1 Wheat Beer Glass (9.25-in.) 1 Beer Tulip (6-in.) |
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Tasting Beer: An Insider's Guide to the World's Greatest Drink $14.36 Beer. It's the most popular drink in the world. Enjoyed at ballparks, in home-away-from-home pubs, on the family room sofa, and in every kind of restaurant, beer is at ease in any setting. For all beer lovers who have known the pleasure of draining a pint, Randy Mosher explores and explains the complete tasting experience as it applies to all the wonderful brews of the world. Beer may be the common beverage of the people, but it is far from simple. With 10,000 years of history, more than 900 identified flavors, dozens of styles, and thousands of breweries around the world, beer is as complex as its grape-based neighbors in the liquor stores. It is an artistic creation, brewed from dozens of possible ingredients and processed in hundreds of different ways. Mosher guides readers to a better understanding of how every batch of beer is affected by each of the brewmaster's choices - recipe formulation, brewhouse procedures, yeasts, fermentations, carbonation, filtration, packaging, and much more. Beer can be light, dark, mild, strong, flat, or fizzy. Hundreds of tastes can be detected in beer, from resin to toast, and from apple to smoke. Readers will learn how to identify the scents, colors, flavors, and mouth-feel of all the major beer styles. There are also chapters on proper serving and storage conditions, and classic beer and food pairings. The second half of the book is a style-by-style compendium of the different brews within major beer families, including American craft brews, British lagers, German ales, and Belgian Dubbels. For each style there are historical and regional facts, taste and aroma characteristics, seasonal availability, food pairings, and a few terrific recommendations for readers to sample. From the back cover: Everybody knows how to drink beer, but few know how to really taste it. "Tasting Beer "is a lively exploration of the culture, chemistry, and creativity that make craft beers so wonderfully complex. Heighten your enjoyment of every glass with an understanding of the finer points of brewing, serving, tasting, and food pairing. Praise: "A radical passion for brews." -Bob Townsend, "Atlanta Constitutional-Journal" |
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Beer $15 From fashionable bars to traditional pubs, a new generation of connoisseur is discovering the variety and diversity of beers from around the world, from the brewing heartlands of Europe to the new world beers of the Far East and Latin America. Whether you are looking to find out more about the brewing and history your favorite beer or want to discover a hidden gem that you've never tried, this book tells and shows you everything you need to know from comprehensive tasting notes to how to choose and serve each beer correctly. As the world’s best-selling writer on beer, Michael Jackson needs no introduction. He is renowned the world over for his pithy wisdom and good sense. Michael has written numerous books on the subjects of beer and whisky, and has won many awards, including 1999 Glenfiddich Drinks Writer of the Year and the James Beard Foundation Award for Best Wine or Spirits Book in 2006 for Whisky. He is member of the Belgian Confederation of Brewers, the only non-brewer to be honored. Jackson is also a journalist, and writes regularly for a variety of publications, including Whisky magazine, The Washington Post, and a number of websites. A uniquely illustrated, portable guide to beers from all over the world Includes tasting notes, explaining why different beers taste the way they do Gives information on the top producers from around the word Introduces readers to famous and not-so-famous beers |
Great Grains for a Great Beer
One of the great reasons for learning to brew your own beer is to learn more about the various grains and ingredients that makes one beer better than another one. When you first start your hobby of home brewing, you no doubt got connected to a local club or association of home brewers. They can help you learn the lingo and how to tell what the best grains are to use in your beer. But before you go to the first meeting, it might speed things up if you knew the basics.
The use of malts is at the heart of how grain contributes to a great beer. The difference between a light beer that doesnít have a heavy malt taste and one that virtually tastes like a loaf of bread all go back to what malts you pick and the process that is used during the malting and brewing of your beer. There are actually a big variety of different grains that people commonly use when brewing their own beer and you may have to take some time to brew up a few batches using different grains to see which ones capture what to you is the perfect beer taste that will make your home made beer unique. But understanding how malting works is a good first step.
Now as a home brewing enthusiast, you will probably not actually take grain through the malting process yourself. But you should become familiar with how malting works and why there is so much variety to the outcome of the malting process. In that way you can use that knowledge when buying the malts for your beer so you can get a malt that will give you the flavor, color and intensity of beer that you are looking for.
The malting process starts with the grain to be used. The most common grains are barley, wheat or rye but others can be used from time to time. The grain is used from the seed form and steeped and germinated which gets the active part of the malting and brewing process underway. Germination, which from your high school science class you know is what happens when a seed sprouts out to become a plants, releases the store energy of the seed that was put there to jump start the growth process. We are going to use that energy and convert it into malt mash that you can use to brew your beer.
What happens during the germination process of those grains is that the stored energy in the seed is changed as it is released. When the starches in the seeds changes into sugars by the enzymes that are active part of the germination process, those sugars give us one of the core ingredients for great beer. It is at that exact moment that the germination process is suspended using kilns to dry the grains and all of that good sugar and enzymes that became active remain in the malt for use during the brewing process.
Obviously this description of the basic malting process is simplified but for our purposes it gives you a background into what happens before you buy the malts you will use in your home made beer. But based on this description, you can go on to get a feel for the wide variety of malt types. The more you know about malt, the better informed you will be about what malts you wish to use when you brew your beer. And those decisions will have a big effect on the taste of your beer. So for great tasting beer, use great malts and knowing one malt from the next is the key to knowing which to use for the best home made beer possible from your home brewing efforts.
About the Author
Jennifer Clason runs a Homebrew Kits site which is a resource site that teaches you how to brew great beer from home, find out where to buy homebrewing supplies, and get homebrewing recipes.
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