• Brewery - North America

    Bear Republic Brewing Company, Inc.

    December 31, 2009 /

    Bear Republic’s brews are hand-crafted using traditional brewing methods. We hand select only the choicest ingredients for each batch. The specialty grains and hops used by Bear Republic have been chosen for their unique characteristics. The recipes and their final formulations were developed over a period of several years. Those wonderful homebrewing sessions and the lessons learned from trial and error have established the solid foundations for each recipe’s commercial equivalents. It’s our goal to continually develop new recipes using our time tested home brewing methods. “I feel home brewing is the laboratory where true advancement of beer styles is coming from. “Richard G. Norgrove, Master Brewer.

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  • Brewery - Europe

    Weisses Bräuhaus G. Schneider & Sohn GmbH

    December 31, 2009 /

    The history of wheat beer is also the history of the Schneider brewing family and its famous Schneider Weisse. Georg I. Schneider acquired the rights to boil wheat beer from King Ludwig II. in 1872. Back in those days the sales of wheat beer in the royal brewhouses were continuously declining and no one would have forecast a future worth mentioning for this noble beverage. That’s why it can rightly be claimed that it was Georg I. Schneider who saved wheat beer from “dying out”. Being the wheat beer pioneer and creator of the original recipe for Schneider Weisse which still holds good today, he is revered by all wheat…

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    Interview with a Homebrewer

    Interviews with a Homebrewer – The Mike and Joe Show

    December 31, 2009 /

    Name(s): Mike Lairson & Joe Vickery (Brown Water Brewery) Day Job(s): Couple of Computer Consultants When did you start homebrewing? March 2009 What got you into homebrewing? A person? An unfulfilled interest? Sheer boredom? I have had friends that brewed, and had an interest for a while. I think we can credit a gift of a Rogue Dead Guy clone received by my brewing partner and a friend who let us use his equipment to brew this first batch that pushed us over the edge. Where do you brew? Inside/outside? Weather permitting, we cook outside.

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