Understanding beer leads to
understanding the world.
I believe, from experience, that the better we understand the brewing process and where our ingredients come from, the better we understand our beer. When we understand our beer, we learn a little about ourselves and a lot about the rest of the world. Better beer education is the key to better beer sales, better curated experiences, and creating a habit of betterment in other parts of your life. This has been my experience, and I’d like to share this with you.
Your Beer instructor leading a class.
A Stemmed Tulip is my favorite glass to drink beer from: It holds foam, focuses aroma and the stem allows me to control temperature.
Base Malt
Wheat Malt
Rye Malt
Malted Barley
Barley grows rootlets, or chits, in the malting process.
Common Malt Flavors
Making Belgian Candi Sugar at home is easy
Belgian Candi Sugar cooling before breaking up
Candi Sugar wave
Belgian Candi Sugar
Hop Anatomy
Hop Bines (not vines)
Hop Field in NW USA
Hop Shoots - Most valuable vegetable in the world
Hop Truck en route to the processor
Hop Drying
Yeast ready for repitching
Coolship at Jester King south of Austin, TX
Gravity check
Gravity check
Infusing amber honey with rosemary for my Rosemary Orange Honey Ale (ROHA) to create a gastro ale for food pairing
Cleanliness is essential
Kegging your beer to control carbonation and simplify deliver
Bottling and labeling
Your instructor, doing "thorough" research in British pubs
Beer and food pairing
Pairing Belgian Quads
Learn more about Beer Styles
Beer judging 1
Beer judging 2
Beer judging 3
Beer judging 4
What would you pair with an English "London" Porter?
Beer Education Videos
Hops, from Bine to Bale
Mashing malt is just like making tea.
Boiling your wort accomplishes multiple things: sanitization, remove off flavor potential, flavor cultivation, clarification, and more.
Fermentation “burps”
Milling grain to crack it open, not to crush it.
Taking a temperature and pH reading to ensure the mash is within specs
Activating yeast with low gravity wort improves yeast health and better fermentation.
Active yeast in fermentation