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Video Course: The Mad Fermentationist’s Practical Guide to Brewing with Fruit

All Access Exclusive Sapwood Cellars cofounder, brewer, and ”Mad Fermentationist” Michael Tonsmeire shares his expertise in all things fruit—sourcing, selecting, processing, blending, brewing, barrel-aging, and more. In Columbia, Maryland, the suburban brewery known as Sapwood Cellars has a unique origin story: Its cofounders Michael Tonsmeire and Scott Janish are authors of two of the most …

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Get the Big Brew 2023 Official Bottle Label

Link to article The American Homebrewers Association’s annual Big Brew for National Homebrew Day event is coming up. Access the Big Brew 2023 recipe–Nearly Nirvana Pale Ale–and download a free bottle label design to make your Big Brew batch official!  How to Access the Big Brew Bottle Label New for this year, the American Homebrewers …

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Podcast Episode 296: Pilsner Urquell’s Václav Berka Tells the Story of Pilsner and Preaches Excellence in Lager Brewing

The sandstone cellars of Plzeňský Prazdroj—better known to us as Pilsner Urquell—may be the ideal place to wallow in the history of the world’s most popular beer style with brewmaster emeritus Václav Berka. As the brewery’s 13th brewmaster in a line that stretches back to Josef Groll, there are few people better qualified to recount …

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Recipe: Annie’s All Winter Wheatwine Long

While their all-grain friends cope with gummy stuck mashes, here’s a recipe that extract brewers can employ for a strong, elegant, aromatically fruit-forward wheatwine. All Access Subscribers can download the Beersmith and BeerXML version of this recipe. Subscribe today. PARTIAL-MASH Batch size: 5 gallons (19 liters) OG: 1.103 FG: 1.022 IBUs: 50 ABV: 10.6% MALT/GRAIN …

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The Purple Snake: A Hose Designed with Beer In Mind

The Purple Snake’s unique design is the product of conversations with some of the world’s best brewers about the issues they’ve encountered with their transfer tools. Here’s what we learned—and what we did about it. Perhaps the last thing anyone enjoying a cold glass of their favorite brew thinks is, “I wonder what hose they’re …

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