Hooray for Session Beer Day!
What is Session Beer Day, you ask? Well, The Session Beer Project blog, tireless advocate for session beers, has put some work into creating this day. It commemorates Little Repeal Day, April 7th, the day on which 4.0% beer became legal before the full repeal of Prohibition. What is a session beer? A session beer is a low alcohol, flavorful beer that you can enjoy more than one of. Session Beer Day is defining it as a beer under 4.5% alcohol.
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Homebrewers rejoice, for today is a historic day: the Wisconsin Homebrewing Bills have been signed into law. This means that it will be legal once again for homebrewers in Wisconsin to take their homemade beer and wine outside of the home for tastings, competitions, or just to share with friends.
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Taking my daily constitutional through the internets today I stumbled across a beer-blogger discussion questioning the impact of homebrewing on modern craft beer. It starts over at Lew Bryson’s blog (respected beer writer and new star of a beer-related TV show), gets a nudge from Alan McLeod, and winds up where I found it, at awesome homebrewing/craft beer author Stan Heironymus’ Appellation Beer Blog (also the co-creator of our Number 8 kit).
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Ah, the first outdoor brewing day of the year. Here in Minnesota the spring came early – like three months early. When the weather hits 70 degrees on a Saturday, everyone in Minneapolis runs out to do their favorite outdoor activity. My favorite outdoor activity is homebrewing. Yeah, I know you can do it indoors, but there are some great reasons to take it to the back yard:
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a.k.a. “St. Edhar 12 First Among Equals” – as seen in “Brewing TV – Episode 58: Guess That Beer.” Continue reading