Ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, helps fuel most of the cars in the United States. Ethanol also fuels your brew. Beer ran on ethanol long before your car did — at least five and perhaps nine solid millennia before. That said,… Read more ›
Ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, helps fuel most of the cars in the United States. Ethanol also fuels your brew. Beer ran on ethanol long before your car did — at least five and perhaps nine solid millennia before. That said,… Read more ›
Anyone with spare cash can purchase some inordinately ornate beer glasses. The beer you pour, however, will taste either no different, or worse than the same beer given a head in a pedestrian pilsner glass. Belgian brewers issue glasses designed… Read more ›
It may not rival the old debate on whether to have your toilet paper unroll from the top or bottom, but how to properly pour beer remains a controversial subject. Poll a series of bartenders, and you’ll receive a range… Read more ›
Too many people associate beer color with the brew’s “strength,” by which they usually mean alcohol content, rather than depth of flavor. The color of beer is unrelated to its alcohol content. Beer with high Alcohol by Volume (ABV) can… Read more ›
Because each of us responds to bitterness a little differently, one might think that tasting a bitter food or beverage is a primarily subjective experience, more opinion than fact, more a feeling than a component able to be counted and… Read more ›