To celebrate our first year of existence, I’m pulling together some lists of articles we’ve published and I’ll post them throughout the week. I’ll have lists of articles for extract brewers. all-grain brewers, hop lovers, and more. Today, I’ll start with the obvious list. Here’s our most-read articles from our first year of publication.
Top 10 Articles From Our First Year
June 24, 2014 by Leave a Comment
300
March 6, 2014 by 1 Comment
Beer and Wine Journal — it’s a journal, of beer and wine. (Mostly beer.)
Today — 253 days after launching Beer and Wine Journal — we’ve hit our 300th post. When publications hit a milestone, their editors frequently decide to get lazy and throw together some sort of lame retrospective that’s both easy to compile and self-serving . . . and that sounded perfect to me.
However, on New Year’s Eve, we posted our Best of 2013 list, so another “best of” list was out of the question. In it’s place, I give you something that requires even less effort — an Editor’s choice list! In this case, it’s a list of articles that I thought were pretty good, but got posted early enough in the life of the website that they never got too many readers. (I’ll also put the top 5 stories posted since the “best of” list in the “Related articles” links, below the story.)
If haven’t seen these, I think there’s some good stuff in them. If you have seen them, don’t worry, I’ll post article #301 tomorrow. And either way, thanks for reading Beer and Wine Journal!
Podcast Roundup
February 3, 2014 by Leave a Comment
(Image from Clker.com)
James and I appeared on an episode of the podcast Gervarpið recently, discussing my Fimbulvinter Øl (winter warmer) and his Fruitcake Barleywine. The show, made by two Icelandic homebrewers, has an Icelandic intro, but the interview is in English.
This reminded me that, back in September (2013), I did a podcast interview for the Final Gravity podcast, discussing brewing big beers.
And of course, James’s podcasts (Basic Brewing Radio and Basic Brewing Video) has featured several episodes with tie-ins to Beer and Wine Journal content (or vice versa), including episodes devoted to the James’ sour mash beer brewed at Fossil Cove, hoppy pale ales, German wheat beers, our IPA experiment results, brewing barleywines and his Fruitcake Barleywine. A full list of recent Basic Brewing Radio shows can be found here. Recent Basic Brewing Viedo shows can be found here. (The related Beer and Wine Journal articles are listed below.)
A Contest for a Cause
January 10, 2014 by Leave a Comment
The entry deadline for the Upper Mississippi Mashout — a large homebrew competition run by Minnesota homebrewers — is January 17. This year, all of the proceeds go to help Kathy Stock, a homebrewer who was diagnosed with brain cancer. Kathy and her husband Curt are longtime homebrewers whose beers and meads have won many medals at competition. So, if you’ve got some beer you’d like critiqued, a shot at winning a medal, and the chance to help a homebrewer beat cancer, send some beer to the Upper Mississippi Mashout.
Chris’s Brew Year’s Resolutions
December 31, 2013 by 11 Comments
Top Stories of 2013
December 31, 2013 by 2 Comments
Before we welcome in 2014, let’s say goodbye to 2013.
Beer and Wine Journal went live on June 24th of this year. Since then, we’ve posted over 220 articles on beer, mead and wine. We’ve got big plans for 2014, but — for a few more hours — it’s still 2013. So, before we turn the page on our calendars, here’s a look back at our top 25 stories of 2013 (ranked by popularity).
Quarterly Index: II
December 23, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Here is an index of the articles that ran in the last three months. Before the end of the year, we’ll have a static index page that is updated once a week.
Quarterly Index
October 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
(Logo by John Weerts.)
Beer and Wine Journal has been around for just over 3 months now. We launched on June 24th (with backdated articles stretching back to June 17th) and have posted updates daily since then. If you’ve just found us, here’s a roundup of the articles we’ve published through September 30. Individual recipes can be found on our recipe page and beer style articles on our beer styles page (posted yesterday). If there’s something you’d like to see us cover, drop us a line. (We’ve got a request to cover some ingredients — malt types, hop varieties and yeast strains — individually, and we definitely plan on that.) This index will become a page on Beer and Wine Journal and we’ll update it each quarter.
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What’s Brewing?
August 31, 2013 by Leave a Comment
American hops are featured at the end of the boil.
The start of “brewing season” is almost upon us. Brewing season is that time of year when temperatures fall low enough to allow most homebrewers to ferment ales with little or no active temperature control. James and I have got a bit of a jump on brewing season with some recent brewdays. Here’s what we are working on right now. What are you brewing?
Welcome to Beer and Wine Journal
June 24, 2013 by 14 Comments
Chris Colby, at the Austin ZEALOTS Xmas party. (That’s Mike Simmons of the ZEALOTS with the photobomb behind him.)
Welcome to Beer and Wine Journal, a website devoted to homebrewing and home winemaking. Beer and Wine Journal will be updated everyday with original content about brewing beer and making wine, and will also feature news and commentary on beer and wine from around the web. Although today (Monday, June 24th) is our launch day, we already have a week’s worth of material posted for you to browse. In the future we will be covering hombrewing and home winemaking ingredients, recipes, equipment and procedures. So come back often and see what’s new. Likewise, if there’s something you would like to see us cover, please let us know.
James Spencer (left) and Steve Wilkes (right) are ready to pitch that yeast starter and happy that nobody can tell they aren’t wearing pants.
Beer and Wine Journal is a joint project of Chris Colby (formerly BYO/WineMaker), James Spencer (Basic Brewing Radio and Basic Brewing Video) and Steve Wilkes (Basic Brewing Radio and Basic Brewing Video).
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