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on dogs and baseball, I love that ass, what are hops? and no I'm not Googling it I just want someone to tell me okay I'm the guy who just tells you so these are hops hops are a pineapple shaped green flower that grows large on a vine in this country. in the pacific northwest and when that hop cone grows that little flower that's where you're going to develop all your flavors and aromas now here's an interesting fact hops are the closest botanical relative to cannabis this hot flower you have resins and those are the resins give you bitterness give you flavor give you aromas hops are varietal like wine grapes there are about a hundred varieties of hops available on the market right now some of them have a floral flavor some of them smell citrusy some of them smell a little damp , many spices used to be used in

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, but hot pepper often became the only spice in beer because it also acts on the growth of bacteria and bacteria can spoil the beer, so people started noticing more hops. you add the longer the beer will last so the hops really became the focal point of the beer's bitter flavors in james 241 473 7 ask how do you make beer without yeast sorry james you can have yeast in there to ferment the sugar. in alcohol and to create all the flavors we associate with beer, you can use other things besides yeast, like bacterial strains, etc., but you must have yeast to do the job in Ziermann asks: is it the chemistry of beer? hmm, well, beer is chemistry. also biology, beer is also art, wine is easy, right, you have some grapes, grapes have sugar, you stomp on them, anything else, they could start fermenting on their own and you have wine, beer is harder, we are Starting with this, there is no sugar in barley malt. to break down the starch into sugars, which is made into a slurry called a mash, the natural enzymes that are in the malt break down the starches into sugar, so you have a formulation: is it going to be dark? will it be red because it has fruit, will it be a caramel color like that and that's a little more artistic and then you have biology because you're going to add yeast that will then consume those sugars and give off carbon dioxide flavors. and of course alcohol, there's a lot of pipe cleaning to do too so you have to be prepared to wear a lot of hats if you want to be a brewmaster so Yoff Jackson asked me how you can become a brewmaster because I think it's awesome. job hashtag dream job the brewmaster is essentially the chef of the brewery.

There are two main ways you can learn to be a brewmaster: one is by taking classes sometimes for years or you can do it the old fashioned way, which is the apprenticeship where you basically usually join another brewmaster for years and little by little You learn on the job, there are many jobs in each brewery, but in each brewery there is only one brewmaster in the same way that there are many cooks in a kitchen, but there is only one chef. in the smarmy swami asks: is jamaican viagra really equivalent to guinness plus peanuts mixed in a blender?

I don't think that makes me very playful. I prefer my guinness and peanuts separately. I don't know why you didn't put them in a blender. but guinness has a reputation in the caribbean and africa for giving people extra potency i don't know if there is any truth to this i just think it tastes pretty good but there is one thing especially with the stronger versions the guinness far and extra strong with around Eight percent is supposed to be very good for you. They think it is an aphrodisiac and will give them special powers. I'm not sure, I just think it tastes good in biophilias.

Ask and it is illegal to home brew. No, but that's how it is. So after prohibition, people were really worried that all these people were fermenting at home and not paying taxes. My grandfather was one of them during prohibition who made his own beer at home in the 1970s. President Jimmy. Carter signed legislation legalizing home brewing in the United States. You can brew your own beer at home, you can drink it and bring it to your friends. What you can't do is sell it, you have to pay taxes, you need licenses. etc, etc, so yes, you can legally brew beer at home, but no, you can't sell it to all your friends by Susan Arlene asks if boxed beer exists and if not, why not, no, and why what is not because you need to carbonate. hold pressure in your container and a box doesn't really hold pressure in Sparkly June asking how do you make your own beer well is like asking how do you make your own pancakes well you can get a box mix just add water just add milk or you can make pancakes from zero, kind of like with beer, you can start with a kit, but if you want to have more control, you'll start here with the original beans, you'll grind them.

Mix them with hot water at very specific temperatures, around 150 degrees Fahrenheit. Activates enzymes. You're going to break down all those starches into sugars. You're going to strain out those sugars. You will bring it to a boil. Now you have a liquid called Wurtz. w-o-r-t, you bring it to a boil, add the hops, cool everything and add the yeast, then it goes to eat, the sugars give off carbon dioxide, give off flavors and of course give off alcohol within a few days. I have beer. I was a hobby brewer for years. We are 400 years old. I didn't like the beer offerings we had in the mid-80s at the time, so I started making my own beer.

My own beer at home and it turned out my beer was better on Reddit Beer asks Hey Reddit Beer, what's the weirdest beer you've ever tried? I have tried all kinds of beers. One of the best beer experiences I've ever had, but the strangest. in flavor I was drinking the traditional South African uncumboti beer from a kind of galvanized steel bucket passed around the community on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa, and it was sour, it was funky, it had all kinds of things going on, it was made from sorghum, but this is a Really traditional lager style beer was invented probably about 10,000 years ago when you got to ancient Egypt.

They had everything. They had styles of beer. They had names. They had advertising. Ancient Egyptian cities like robbers were actually built with beer money. The pyramids were built. money for beer, so beer goes back a long way, it started in africa and then spread around the world in greg merced's exile. Ask a question about beer on Twitter. Why do Belgian, German and French brewers predominantly use glass, but in the UK most craft breweries and microbreweries use cans? case of cost versus tradition in the old days the only people who could afford a canning machine were the big brewers so if you wanted to buy a canner it cost over a million dollars as the craft beer movement began take off, the people who made canning

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nology got better, it didn't affect the taste of the beer the way the beer can used to. and eventually it became, from a technological point of view, equal to the glass bottle, many people feel that the can is more ecological, it goes to more places where glass is not allowed, such as a stadium, Belgians do not use many cans, but in the UK and the US the can is really taking over.

We're using bottles, we put beer in a brown bottle, because a brown bottle is going to block a lot of the light coming in, but it can't block it completely. A can, however, can block out all the light and that's one way. where a can is actually superior to a bottle these days, when executed correctly, both packages are pretty much equally good, although in some ways I feel better about a bottle, but that's because I'm 400 years old, you know? a lamb traditionalist asks how do you make beer from pumpkins, do you cook the pumpkins, mash them, mix them with the grain in the mash, do the enzymes in the grain break down the starches in the pumpkins into sugars and ferment it all together often people add a little pumpkin spice because people like pumpkin spice, but pumpkin beer is actually hundreds of years old in Hedwig Gray Malk says: Remember last year when Republicans were crying that if Biden won, he would make them drink plant-based beer.

I know my beer was always plant-based, so that's one of those weird things like gluten-free vodka, like vodka is gluten-free in Dell Boy 1978 UK asks how do beer makers keep their yeast, how do they is the yeast grown? Yeast is one of the most important elements of beer, it is the agent that actually takes this sweet liquid called wort and transforms it almost magically into beer and there are several types of yeast, the main one that we use in beer is called saccharomyces and saccharomyces it means that the sugar yeast or the sugar fungus that you consume, the sugar gives off alcohol and that's what it does, it does it everywhere in the natural world including our beer, when you add the yeast it starts to reproduce and it reproduces by sprouting , so you have like one yeast cell here and another one starts growing from it and this happens over and over again until you have a whole population of yeast.

Now, when the fermentation is finished, we will usually cool the tank and the yeast will go down to At that point, you can remove the yeast from the bottom and save it for later use. You can't keep it forever, but you can easily keep it for a week or more and you have to keep it healthy because basically when you're a brewer. the yeast is your partner, we like to joke that we are basically here working for the yeast, it is the yeast that actually does all the work, they make the beer, we make the word and together we do it all in dad walking ask which one is the best coffee for sunday morning a stout or wheat beer the best coffee for sunday morning is coffee however wheat beer will be better with breakfast at rambo cowboy asked if there were any good seafood combinations and beer my first book The Brewers' Table was about beer and food pairings and I can tell you that there are many good beer and seafood pairings.

My favorite though is probably the Belgian style with beer and a very tasty salmon in a lemon butter sauce. I have memories of sitting on the canals in Amsterdam drinking that beer and eating it. the food and it's so spectacular but the seafood and the beer absolutely in t gwin wonder how people taste beer the difference in the ipas. I had a mango and an orange and couldn't taste anything different. ipa means india pale ale india pale ale was the most rigidly defined style of beer at virtually all times. This was a type of beer that was brewed in England and sent to the colonists in India.

Beer was not entertainment, it was a basic food product. Many people drank it from the moment they got up in the morning until they went to bed. The water could kill you, but beer was always safe and nowadays it doesn't mean much. It usually means that the beer at least has a real aroma of beer. hops and has at least a reasonable bitterness, someone can put mango or orange. That happens in beer too, but you want to check the label because you never know. Baby. My social media ask pale ale ipa what is the difference between an ipa and a short pale version.

Intensity, so you're talking about pale ales, usually between five and six percent. Traditionally, the ipa was stronger, bitterer, drier, and more hoppy, but actually you can almost think of the ipa as a heightened version of pale ale. On the play dating app, I asked the guy for ale or mead. wonder at Monster Land Arcade, it will have to be beer for me there. There are two main types of beers: ales and lagers. Ales are fermented hot. Lagers are cold fermented. They are two different species of yeast. They have slightly different flavors. The beers tend to be fruitier and more complex.

The need is fermented honey. You add a little water and ferment it. with yeast and you end up with mead the first time I got drunk in my entire life right after high school it was legal back then to drink mead right after high school at a renaissance fair I admit it, both things happen I drank mead at a renaissance festival and I'm wearing this jacket. I'm not ashamed of tacos. 314 asks what makes a New England style ipa basically haze and a big fruity tropical flavor, it's something that actually came up in New England about 10 years ago. in orboros asks when buying beer how many different ways you can mix itwheat and hops.

Here's the thing: Not only are there wheat, barley, hops, spelt, einkorn, and all the other grains you could use, you can also toast them very lightly. until they are dark like coffee beans, you can caramelize them, you can flavor them in different ways, then you can decide if you are going to add spices, so not just hops, let's say you want to add ginger, you can add fruit when we judge the beer in great extent. At the American Beer Festival, we actually judge beer in over 100 different styles, so if you look at wheat and barley and wonder how many ways this can really be combined, these beers must be the same, right? , they can all be really different I can mix them in infinite ways in caroline on crack ask if the craft beer and spirits movement threatens the big brands the short answer is yes, but there is no reason to be threatened by the big brands they make their kind of beer and that's great, but there used to be all kinds of beer, we had one of the most vibrant beer cultures in the United States and around the world, but then prohibition crushed everything until maybe the late '70s and early 80s, we had a monoculture, essentially one type of beer with different names on it, so now our beer culture is super creative and it's based on Belgium, it's based on Germany.

It's based on the UK and also our own local traditions, so today you are living in a beer nirvana, but remember that we always had good beer in the United States, but we forgot about it for a moment. Andy Hank asks anyone else climbing into a mash. Today, luckily, no, I didn't get into a mash today, a ton of mash is basically, you mash it up, you mix it with hot water, you make the slurry that will break down the starch into sugars. That container is called a mash ton, a ton is like a and I didn't get into one today, but I used to get into it a lot when I was younger.

It was a pretty dirty job at Madnessnut asks, so British pubs lost a lot of money by having to throw away kegs of obsolete beer. Sad, yes, the traditional one. The British style of beer actually finishes its fermentation in the barrel. It's called molten beer and you should serve it within three or four days once you've reached it. If you don't serve it so quickly, it can become sour and flat. and no one likes that, so it's one thing that if you don't take care of your beer, you might have to throw it away joyra artificer asks if they are hazy ipa.

Beer is only for people who prefer to drink juice but want to say they love ipas. yeah basically if you don't like big bitter beers you can still go for the juicy hazy style and you know you have your fruity character but not as much bitterness in our ourwilliams3 question with the FDA laws being so strict how Do wine and beer liquor manufacturers get away with this? list the ingredients, what's actually in my adult beverage, that's a good question, the answer is we can't tell you what's in the beer to a certain extent, interestingly it's not legal in the US for us to publish for example, information nutritional, even if it's 100 true, people are worried that, in the context of alcohol, you might try to get an advantage by saying that your beer is safe and full of vitamins, even if it's one of those things that is rare in the US laws if you go to other countries you may have to put those things on the label and I think that would be a very good idea in Patton Smith's says these anti-ipa tweets peaked in 2015 who even makes ipas super hot since everything is confusing.

Fruity Citrus logs off Twitter and learns about beer nerds. I think we could learn to be a little more inclusive. There are a lot of people here who like the modern, hazy, fruity, juicy version, and people who like the traditional strong version, drink what you want. The most important part about beer, we're here to have fun, it's a pretty cool thing.