by Angela Valley | Feb 3, 2015 | Pubucation
In 1840, Americans drank 2.5 gallons of spirits per capita, but only about a gallon of beer. But in 1896, they downed 15 gallons of beer. Pre-Prohibition beer consumption reached its high point in 1914 at 21 gallons. When the ban of drinking ended, it took the brewing...
by Angela Valley | Jan 22, 2015 | Pubucation
In the centuries before the invention of the thermometer, brewers would test the temperature of their brews prior to adding yeast by sticking in their thumb. Too cold, and the yeast wouldn’t grow. Too hot, and the yeast would die. From this practice, we get the...
by Angela Valley | Oct 9, 2014 | Pubucation
The Weihenstephan Brewery can trace its roots at the Kloster Weihenstephan abbey to 768. The brewery Weihenstephan was licensed 1040 making it the oldest working brewery in the world. Thats over 974 years of brewing beer…. The oldest operating brewery in the...
by Angela Valley | Sep 1, 2014 | Pubucation
Anchor Brewery is the oldest and still running brewery in California. In 1896 German brewer Ernst F. Baruth and his son-in-law, Otto Schinkel, Jr., bought the old brewery on Pacific (the first of six Anchor locations around the City over the years) and named it...
by Angela Valley | Aug 23, 2014 | Pubucation
Hops are what makes beer bitter. The sceintific name for hops is is humulus lupulus, and is in the cannabis (marijuana) family, but it doesn’t contain any of the psychoactive compounds found in its semi-legal cousin. Hops are used in Beer to provide aroma,...
by Angela Valley | Aug 13, 2014 | Pubucation
Dry-hopping : A small amount of hops is added to the cask. This improves the aroma and bitterness while the beer ferments.
