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Fermentarium serves as one place to collect everything interesting about alcohol, predominantly beer and wine. There are articles about how to start homebrewing or winemaking, advanced topics, industry news, wine and beer reviews, and other articles about beer and wine! Hopefully you will find this site a great place to find homebrewing information, gather new ideas, and share new ideas with other readers.

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Recent Posts Tagged With 'Wine'

Mar 24

The $7.9 Million Schnoz

Ilja Gort’s nose is worth $7.9 million dollars (5 Euros), at least according to his insurance policy.  Jonathan Thomas, the lead underwriter for the policy, stated that the nose could distinguish millions of different smells.  This ability was i (read full article)

industry, nose, strange, Wine

Mar 24

Winos have smaller brainos

If you drink wine to excess, it may be the worst choice for you.  Researchers (psychiatrists) found a region of the brain in alcoholic wine drinkers was more damaged than the same region in alcoholics who prefer beer or spirits.  This is the first (read full article)

brain, Recent Studies, science, Wine

Apr 22

What do you really need to start making wine?

Equipment for making wine from a wine kit Making wine from a wine kit is very easy. Making wine from a wine kit is as easy as mixing Kool-Aid, but you get a MUCH better beverage! Just like making beer, the no-rinse sanitizer is required.  A no-rins (read full article)

equipment, Wine, Winemaking

Feb 26

Biodynamic Wine – Organic’s older, crazy half-brother

There’s a large sign on one of the (many) organic/natural/vegan/I’m better than you for not eating “x” restaurants in Boulder, Colorado reading “biodynamic wine” in huge, bright letters.  Boulder, being commonly referred to arou (read full article)

biodynamic, featured, industry, myths, Organic, science, Wine

Jan 26

The ritual of drinking

Corona Lime There are several reasons offered for why the lime is added to the neck of a Corona bottle, none of which have any credence.  The main reasons suggested for the lime are masking the light struck odors, protecting the lip of the beer fro (read full article)

corona, featured, guinness, Lifestyle, mexico, ritual, Wine

Jan 22

DNA Drinking

Humans have been altering the genome of many plants and animals for thousands of years.  The wild “natural” grape still exists in parts of Eurasia and north Africa but bears only a passing resemblance to its relatives cultivated for the wine tr (read full article)

beer, dna, industry, Recent Studies, science, Wine

Aug 20

Can red wine make you live longer?

We’ve all read the health benefits from drinking red wine.  One joke that commonly gets tossed around for any ailment is, “You have x?  Red wine cures that!”  Distinguishing between myth and science can be very difficult.  Ever (read full article)

health, Lifestyle, red wine headache, resveratrol, science, sulfites, Wine

Aug 08

The Basement Winery

Pour someone a glass of fine looking wine, then right before they are about to take a sip, tell them you made it—invariably there will a hesitation (the length of which depends on the default courtesy of the guest)—followed by questions.  Peopl (read full article)

basement winery, homeberw, Wine, wine kit, Winemaking

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