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The
Joy of Home Brewing
From
Charlie Papazian, the American home-brewing guru
who started it all, comes a book that will change
your home-brewing forever. After many failures
and disappointments this is the book that resurrected
my interest in home-brewing. If you follow the
guidelines in this book you are sure to make the
best home-brew ever! An easy-reading style with
lots of recipes and charts. Charlie will take
you by the hand and guide you along the way as
you make your very first beer. He will then help
you explore intermediate and advanced brewing.
The
Joy
of Home Brewing is a must-have for
any serious home brewer. - Bill Reddy
You can buy this book now at amazon.com.
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Beer—The
Perfect Accompaniment To Any Meal
While matching wine with food includes weighing factors
like flavour, vintage, dryness and acidity, matching
beer with food is far more straightforward. It can be
used to complement, contrast or cut flavour intensity.
And, because beer is much more versatile, it can be
paired with a larger variety of foods.
Try These Appealing Tastes:
- Lighter-flavoured beer should be paired with lighter-flavoured
meals. For example, salmon with lemon goes well with
beer that has citrus notes.
- More flavourfull foods such as game meats and other
full-bodied meals generally pair well with more flavourful
beers.
- Generally if a beer is used to marinate a dish,
it should be served alongside it. A steak marinated
in a dark abbey ale, a Belgian specialty, should be
served with one.
- And, why not serve beer with dessert? Fruit beers
go well with desserts and also act as palate cleansers,
eliminating the need for sorbet.
Beer
is Good for You
Well we have known
this all along, but now Dr. Ken Walker a.k.a. syndicated
columnist, W.Gifford Jones has given his stamp of approval.
"Beer has no
caffeine, no cholesterol, no fat," says Dr. Ken Walker.
"In moderation, it is very sound medication." He even
goes on to say it can be credited with saving lives.
Similar arguments
have been made about the medicinal qualities of red
wine. A couple of beers a night is good, apparently.
Three or four is OK. But any more is trouble. The real
problem, according to Walker, is the habits that go
along with beer. Beer bellies aren't just the result
of drinking too many suds. It's the nachos dripping
with cheese, chips, and fried chicken wings that are
often consumed with beer.
In the Middle
Ages, beer was safer to consume than water. And until
recently some countries gave pregnant women a half-pint
of Stout a day because it was considered nutritious.
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This
is Kevin our resident beer geek. Kevin loves making
beer. If you come into our store and start talking about
beer you are sure to get Kevin excited. So you better
be prepared to stay a while.
