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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 decided I needed to find a better way to chill my beer, so I altered my immersion chiller to recirculate the water. The problem This is my recirculating wort chiller in action For wort chilling, I have always used a counter-flow wort chiller. It (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)
Women are often looking for a way to increase the size of their breasts without resorting to painful surgery. One of the crazier ideas I’ve heard recently to reach this goal is “drink beer”. My first thought was to toss this on (read full article)
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)
History of beer distribution Before prohibition, the large breweries had their own saloons. If you wanted a Schlitz, you went to a bar which sold only Schlitz. The large breweries practiced anti-competitive practices by requiring retailers to ca (read full article)
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)
When you’re making a Belgian beer, many recipes list Belgian candi sugar as an ingredient. Belgian candi looks like rock candy and for most purposes it is rock candy. Belgian candi is a common additive for Belgian Tripels and Dubbels. The Be (read full article)
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