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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.
After several beers, you tend to think you’re a bit better looking than you are. Now researchers have scientific proof, you really are more attractive to females when you drink beer. The bad news is you’re more attractive to female mos (read full article)
Oak is commonly used in winemaking, but lately there is interest in putting the oak in beer. Oak can give your beer different flavors from vanilla to whiskey depending on the type of oak used. Oak barrels are lots of work, but you can carbonate th (read full article)
I’ve heard of many people getting fired for drinking on the job, but this is the first time I’ve ever heard workers going on strike because they can’t drink on the job. You read that right, Carlsberg workers went on strike yester (read full article)
I see nothing wrong with a free bottle of beer as an apology. Beer seems to solve all kinds of police problems. Here in the USA, when police arrested a Harvard professor in his own home the policeman, the professor and President Obama settled (read full article)
A few months ago, Vaune Dillmann owner of Mt. Shasta Brewing Co. tried capping his beer with the slogan “Try Legal Weed”. Anyone who has ventured out in society past the Republican National Convention knows “weed” is a slang term for marij (read full article)
H.R. 4278 Federal legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R. 4278, is a bill which you want to bring to your representative’s attention. The purpose of the bill is to lower taxes on beer produced by smaller brewers. New legislati (read full article)
Smoked beer (bacon beer) When I was at the Great American Beer Festival this year, I only came across one smoked beer. There may have been other smoked beers, but it’s easy to get lost among the thousands of other beers. The funny thing was, t (read full article)
When light strikes beer, the beer can become skunked. This flavor and aroma is described as tasting like onion and smelling like the nasty stuff that shoots out of a pissed-off striped mammal. The skunky flavor comes from the compound 3-methylbu (read full article)
Apparently this video has been around for over a year, but it’s the first time I’ve seen it. If you haven’t seen it, check it out! This video was embedded using the YouTuber plugin by Roy Tanck. Adobe Flash Player is required to v (read full article)
If you’re paying attention at all to the beer world you’ve probably heard the lawsuit InBev and Labatts has brought against Ontario-based Brick Brewing for copyright infringement. Here’s how Brick Brewing has allegedly infringed (read full article)
Beer Compass is a simple $0.99 application for the iPhone. You want beer, and the beer compass finds it for you. The application doesn’t really find beer, with a press of a button it searches for all the bars and restaurants nearest to you (read full article)
The alcohol burn (alcoholic) Some alcohols taste warm and there are others which taste like jet fuel. The jet fuel beers taste overly alcoholic and burn as they travel down your throat. Other unwanted alcohol flavors include strong unwanted bana (read full article)
The problems Most of the draft beer you see from other countries will be mass-market beer. In America we see Heineken from Europe, and in Europe they see Budweiser. This is an over-simplification of the market, but for the most part niche beers (read full article)
Since 1988, the United States has recognized May 7th as National Homebrew Day. Big Brew Day is the day homebrewers get together to make beer and celebrate National Homebrew Day. It is an annual event held on the first Saturday of May. I decide (read full article)
There are several ways to make beer, each with their own list of equipment requirements. You’ll need less equipment if you’re making an extract beer than you would if you were making an all-grain beer. But what is the minimum you wil (read full article)
When I first read the reader’s comment I thought, here we go again. I’ve written about how Canadian beers are not stronger than American beers (when you compare the macro brews), but the reader’s claim was slightly different. T (read full article)
What’s at stake in the 3.2 beer battle? If you live in Kansas or Colorado, you know about the looming battle over beer in grocery stores. Currently grocery stores in Colorado, Kansas, Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Utah are allowed to sell only 3.2 be (read full article)
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)
Where does this beer myth come from? American beer used to use alcohol by weight to denote the alcohol content in beer. Some areas still use alcohol by weight, but there has been an effort to convert to alcohol by volume in the past decade. Alco (read full article)
Nitrogen in the beer (beer gas) The main reason the above beers taste creamy is how they are carbonated. Instead of using regular CO2, these beers use nitrogen for “carbonation” (carbonation isn’t really the right word since you’re adding (read full article)
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