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Sensory Analysis of Hop Aroma for Beer

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This week I take a look at methods for doing sensory analysis of hops as well as some of the resources available to understand hop flavor and aroma better. Understanding Hop Flavor and Aroma For a few years now I’ve been doing presentations on beer recipe design where I encourage brewers to get more familiar […]
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Winners of 2020 Great American Beer Festival Competition Revealed During First-Ever Virtual Ceremony

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272 medals awarded to 240 breweries in world’s most prestigious professional beer competition Boulder, Colo. • October 16, 2020 — The Brewers Association (BA) awarded 272 medals* to 240 breweries across the country during the 2020 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) competition awards ceremony. The best beers in 91 beer categories covering 170 different beer styles (including all subcategories) were awarded gold, silver, and bronze medals during a virtual ceremony hosted on The Brewing Network. Judges for the 34th edition of […]

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Gluten-free Breweries Worldwide Attend The 2nd Annual Gluten-free Beer Conference

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On September 23, 2020, gluten-free breweries from around the world connected virtually at the 2nd Annual Gluten-free Beer Conference, hosted by Golden-based Holidaily Brewing Company. Out of over 8,000 craft breweries in the U.S., only 15 breweries are dedicated gluten-free, meaning they brew, package, and sell gluten-free beer only. The U.S. breweries in attendance included […]

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Fretboard Brewing and Branch & Bone Artisan Ales team up for “Dark Throne” Collaboration

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Fretboard Brewing Company (Blue Ash, OH) isn’t known for their collaborations with other breweries. Over the course of their 3 year history, they’ve partnered with musicians like Bootsy Collins and The Cliftones, to foundations like ArtsWave, and even a bread company (Klosterman Baking), but they’ve never released a product brewed in partnership with another brewery. […]

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Virginia Beer Co. Celebrates Harvest Season With Two Wet-Hopped Recipes

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Fall is in the air and that means one thing: harvest season! Brewing with fresh hops is a meticulous process, having to rely on bountiful bines and timing of wet hops plucked, packaged, and shipped overnight via air freight to align with a brew day built around the arrival of those hops and those hops alone…and this […]

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The Untold Benefits of Award-Winning Beer

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For us homebrewers that enter a competition sanctioned by the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP), the goal is clear – we want feedback on our brews from trained tasters. And, if we win an award, we want to strut. As homebrewers progress to professional brewing, little changes in regard to competition goals. Professional brewers still […]

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Thompson Island and Fifer Orchards Team Up for Beer Releaes

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Thompson Island Brewing Company in Rehoboth Beach will hold another event in its beer-and-donut pairing series Saturday, Oct. 3 and this time, they’re working with Fifer Orchards on a limited edition beer. This fall, the brewpub owned by SoDel Concepts has incorporated Fifer Orchards’ fresh-pressed apple cider into its Apple Crisp Bliss Belgian Tripel. SoDel […]

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BeerSmith 3.1 Mobile Released and Price Lowered

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I’m happy to announce the BeerSmith Mobile 3.1.9 update has been released for Android, iPhone/IOS and the Amazon app store. The app is being released on an “rolling” basis to existing users or via the app store over the next week. More Value, Costs Less The new BeerSmith Mobile release is a significant improvement over […]
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Coin Toss Brewing Defies the Pandemic Odds, Announces Expansion of its Oregon City Brewery and Taproom

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OREGON CITY, Ore.––Sept. 29, 2020––While 2020 has led to closures and downsizing for many small businesses, Coin Toss Brewing is thrilled to announce an expansion. The Oregon City brewery and taproom, located at 14214 Fir St., Unit H, is taking over an adjacent suite in its building complex. The new space is approximately 1,500 square […]

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BeerSmith 3.1+ Storage and Backup Improvements

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Starting with the BeerSmith 3.1 update we’ve added improved data storage security as well as backup options to the BeerSmith platform. I strongly recommend upgrading to 3.1 or higher by going to the main download page at BeerSmith.com if you are using an older version of BeerSmith. Improved Storage In earlier versions of BeerSmith the […]
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New Dry Hop Features in BeerSmith 3.1

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Today I’m going to highlight some of the new dry hop features in BeerSmith 3.1. BeerSmith 3.1 was released in mid-2020. Dry hopping is one of the best ways to preserve aroma oils in your hops. Because it is done at low temperature, you don’t risk boiling off volatile aroma oils. Also the long contact […]
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BeerSmith 3.1 Released

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I’m happy to announce the official release of the BeerSmith 3.1 update. This update includes some significant updates to the BeerSmith data storage model, TILT data import, new brewing features and a large number of bug fixes. This release is also a very important foundational step towards establishing both an online version of BeerSmith and […]
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BeerSmith 3.1 New Update Features

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Buy BeerSmith 3 Download BeerSmith 3 Here is a summary of the new features coming in the BeerSmith 3.1 desktop update. I have posted the open beta version on the main download page at BeerSmith.com, and plan to publish the formal release in the next week or two. You can find additional details for all […]
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Perfecting Your Brewhouse Efficiency in BeerSmith

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This week I take a look at how you can use BeerSmith brewing software to adjust the brewhouse efficiency for your individual equipment setup. Understanding Brewhouse Efficiency Brewhouse efficiency is simply a measure of how efficient your all grain brewing system is at converting pounds (or kilograms) of grains into Original Gravity (OG) points going […]
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The BeerSmith Podcast Index

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I received a lot of positive feedback from the BeerSmith Blog Article Index that I sent out last week featuring about 360 free articles on brewing. So last weekend I indexed all 212 BeerSmith Podcast episodes by subject so you can find the ones you are most interested in:   BeerSmith Podcast IndexThe BeerSmith podcast is […]
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