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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.
Brewed For Thought
Can CO2 Form a Blanket? — long story short, under brewing conditions, yes
Lake Nyos — The Carbonated Lake
It’s Not “Infected” — . . . but it may be contaminated
Fully Legal! — you can still rock in America (and now you can brew anywhere, legally)
5 Steps to Becoming a Terrible Brewer — bad advice
Barley Legal Aeration Experiment
On Sour Beers and Sanitation — don’t fear the reaper
Fossil Cove Mash Experiment — James’ homebrew gets brew commericially
Worst. Article. Ever. — don’t read it
The Globalization of Beer Styles — this one isn’t so hot, either
Five Years of Legality in Utah
Lessons Learned (by Jason Swalley) — thoughts from a brewer who’s just begun his journey
IPA Experiment — brewing! science!! brewing science!!!
Ingredients
Hops — Alphas and Oils — if you’re holding a hammer, everything looks like a nail
Sunflower Ale — made with malted sunflowers
Starchy Adjuncts and Sweet Potato ESB
Dry Hops and Dry Ice — avoid oxidation when you dry hop
Which Hop Utilization Curve is the Most Accurate? —
High Temperature Yeast Strains (by Forrest Whitesides) — strains to use when the heat is on
Use Those Homegrown Hops! — ignore the naysayers
Pumpkin Ale (by Mark Pasquinelli) — a seasonal classic
Food
Molasses Ale and Candied Bacon Pizza
Beer-Brined Fried Chicken — the fried chicken solution
Beer, Birds and BBQ — w/ smoked turkey recipe
Mead
Dive Into Mead Making — get started making mead, w/ cherry melomel recipe
Old School Mead Recipe — Swedish Viking metal band approved
Techniques
Summer Brewing Tips – the summer wind/came blowin’ in
Split Batches: One Brewday, Two Beers — get two beers for the price of one
Quickly Maturing Ale — grain to glass in 7 days, w/ recipe
Ten Tips for Better Yeast Starters — better yeast starters = better beer
Skim the Scum? — maybe?
Plan For Brewing Success — don’t leave it to chance
Residual CO2 and Priming Sugar — with charts of residual CO2 and CO2 generated by priming sugar
Techniques (All-grain)
Malt Conditioning — get bigger husks and smaller grits when you mill
What Temperature Should Your Sparge Water Be? — you’d think this would be a number, wouldn’t you?
A Mash-In Option — hit your target mash temperature easily
Simple 3-Gallon All-Grain Brewing — an easy way to brew all-grain on your stovetop
Reiterated Mashing (Theory and Planning) — mash your malt with wort instead of water
Reiterated Mashing (Practical Advice)
Drain Your Lauter Tun — save water by collecting every last drop of wort
Brew in a Bag (BIAB) Basics — get started with the easiest method of all-grain brewing; all hot-side brewing done in one vessel
Malt Sieves — assess your mill’s output
Techniques (Extract)
Add Base Malts to Your Extract Beer — improve your extract beer formulations
Water Treatment for Extract Brewers
Techniques (Boiling and Cooling)
Handling Sugar Additions in the Kettle — avoid scorching
The Easy Way to Hit the Proper Boil pH — simple and effective
Wort Chilling and the Danger Zone
Techniques (Fermentation)
Five Tips for Fermenting Big Beers
5 More Big Beer Fermentation Tips
Aeration Tips — simple but effective options for more thorough aeration
Wine
Why Make Wine Kits? (by Rich Weaver)
Why Grapes? — and how to make other fruits into wine
Tweaking a Wine Kit — the smart way to make alterations
Places or Events
A Whirlwind Beer Tour of Philly — James in Philadelphia
Thoughts About Club Night — James at NHC 2013
2013 ZEALOTS Inquisition and Picnic — beer and chicken (and sunburn)
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