Category: Craft Drinks
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How to Brew Your Own Kombucha
What’s brown, cloudy and made with a large, dubious bacteria that floats at the top of a large batch? It’s kombucha, one of the fastest growing beverages in recent years. Kombucha is crisp, sour and carbonated. It’s actually delicious, but many folks still aren’t sure exactly what it is or how it’s made. Kombucha is…
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Top 3 Thanksgiving Beers
Before everyone gathers around that Thanksgiving table, many of us are plotting how to make this year different from the others. The staples of Thanksgiving from turkey to stuffing and root vegetables a-plenty could use a breath of fresh air. How about adding some new craft drinks to the mix to complement these tried and…
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What Are Barrel-Aged Beers All About?
Barrel-aging is a technique brewers use to place the beer into a wooden barrel for a certain period of time. It’s a relatively cheap, eco-friendly method that uses discarded liquor barrels to make delicious beer. Many craft breweries have begun producing all sorts of barrel-aged beers and they’re proving quite popular. Why Barrel Aging? Barrel-aging…
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What Are the Ingredients in Craft Beer?
It may be surprising to some, but most craft beers only have four main ingredients. The tiniest of tweaks in these core ingredients have a huge impact in the resulting beer. Now we all know that craft breweries add additional ingredients like fruits and spices, we’ll be focusing on the main four here. There’s also…
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What Makes a Beer a Craft Beer?
Big beer brands are household names. Many people also know craft beer – the smaller, local beers that have proliferated in recent years. We know they are two different products, but they are more distinct than you may think. Here we will explore the craft beer criteria that makes beer “craft”. A craft product is…