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Do you like to drink beer out of the can or the bottle or poured into a glass? The sophisticated European almost ALWAYS drinks his beer from the glass. In fact, European breweries belive that drinking beer from the glass is so vitally important, that almost all have their own glasses manufactured for their company with their cute little logo on it and some go as far as producing glasses for each particular style they brew. Drinking beer from a glass allows beer to...

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Is it possible (and legal) to make beer at home without heavy equipment? Not only is it now legal, it is quite rewarding. Beer is not very hard to make. While you can easily foul up a batch if you are not careful, be sure to follow STRINGENT sanitary guidelines and you cannot go wrong. Beer kits are phoney, as it is not very hard to make a batch of beer. Making beer can be time consuming, but kits really do not produce beer that is much better than most big label...

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How exactly do they put the bubbles in beer? Great question. Tiny, microscopic yeast cells, a prokaryot in the biological world, ingests the mash, or 'immature' beer. As a result of this feeding process, the yeast produces carbon dioxide "carbonation", and ethyl alcohol as waste products. Interestingly enough, yeast was not known about to mankind until the 19th century following the advent of the microscope. It...

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What are 'lambics'? Lambics, much like Trappist Ales are a part of a dying, largely Belgian breed. Brewers rely on the wild yeasts floating around in the air outside to turn the mash into beer. This is accomplished by storing the 'beer' in huge vats without lids and exposing the beer to the outdoor air because parts of the roof are on a track much like screen doors that necessitate their ease of opening....