What is Bock beer? Well other than being one of my favorite styles of beer, it is a dark colored sweet lager that is lightly hopped and high on the ABV (6-7%). But Bock hasn’t always been as we know it. The style known now as bock was a dark, malty, lightly-hopped ale first brewed in the 14th century by German brewers [...]
This weeks Beer 101 is a very helpful infographic I came across a little while back. Sometimes the world of beer can be little confusing if you you’re new to it. I like it because it gives you all this information in one nicely presented place. It also gives some different terminology for different areas of the world. Hope [...]
What is ABV? I might be a little weird, but I like to read beer labels. It’s amazing how much information can be found on the side of a bottle of beer. I love to read how brewers like to describe their beer. Some like to be serious, some like to be humorous, and some read like your drinking a [...]
As the name states, a wiezen glass is designed to make drinking wiezen (wheat) beers more enjoyable. Often confused as pilsner glasses, wiezen glasses have a lot of the same characteristics. They are tall and slender….and um….made out of glass and hold beer. Ok that’s about it.
Everything else is different about wiezen glasses. Wiezen glasses are larger than pilsner glasses. While most pilsner glasses hold 12oz of beer, a wiezen glass will actually hol
What are hops? You hear about them all the time in the world of beer. You hear about beers that have double the hops. There are even tripple hop beers now too. It’s one of the basic ingredients of beer, but it seems that everyone assumes that you know what a hop is. Hops are actually the female flower cluster [...]
If you were only able to buy one kind of beer glass, I would recommend getting a pint glass. But next on my list would be a pilsner glass. In fact, I don’t even own a pint glass right now. I only own pilsner glasses (my wife has promised me she is going to remedy this very shortly ). In [...]
Today is going to be short and sweet. Have you ever wondered why once your beer bottle gets a little sweaty the label will pull right off (on about 90% of beer bottles). This is because they are designed to come off. The beer bottling process as we know it today (including the adding of labels) was created in Europe. [...]
Today’s guest post comes from CJ Mills. CJ is the author of Visual:Trademark::Blog. Take some time and go read about his family’s amazing journey as they had their son, Asher, 2 months early and on vacation away from home. CJ is an amazing man of faith and a great father and husband. I want to thank CJ for helping out [...]
I normally don’t blog on the weekend. But as I was sitting here drinking my Newcastle Brown Ale, I was thinking about how God has truly blessed theBeerean.com in the month-and-a-half that it’s been around. I started theBeerean.com on April 20 and in that time we’ve already had 885 visits, 1925 page views, and 34 subscribers (my goal is to [...]
So I woke up a little late today and didn’t have time to write about what I had planned. But I got a suggestion from a faithful reader that I should talk about different types of beers and what makes them different. I had never really thought about focusing on beer itself that much in this blog (except for Beer [...]
