Author: Randy Mosher
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This Beer is Your Beer: In Search of a New American Beer
May 1, 2005 - Randy Mosher We in this country are boastful to the point of annoyance about our technological prowess, but we have long nurtured an inferiority complex about the artistic merit of our aesthetic creations. Since the days when small-town opera houses staged crude pastiches compared to the glittering spectacles staged in Europe, our insecurity has festered, encompassing a... View Article -
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25 Delicious Years of Homebrew
March 1, 2005 - Randy Mosher In 1980, a homebrew shop, if you could find one, was an unkempt corner of a wine-making shop or Italian hardware store, a few dusty cans of English malt extract crowned by wrinkly packets of dying yeast. On the shelf were boxes or bags optimistically marked “fresh hops,” displaying an autumnal brown glow. Bags of... View Article -
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Old School Fool American Pale Ale
March 1, 2005 - Randy Mosher 5 gallons (19 liters) Original gravity: 1055/13.6 degrees Plato Alcohol: 5 to 5.5 percent by volume Bitterness: 55 International Bittering Units Color: Medium amber Yeast: Ballantine’s/Chico strain (Wyeast 1056 or White Labs WLP 001) All-grain recipe calculated at 75 percent efficiency All grain recipe: 9 pounds/4 kilograms US pale ale malt 1 pound/454 grams US... View Article -
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Roll Out the Barrel
January 1, 2005 - Randy Mosher Everything old is new again; that’s one of the great things about the craft beer revival. Creative brewers feel quite free to take the elements of the past and build any kind of modern beer they can imagine. As you may know from flipping the pages of this fine magazine, the beer barrels are rolling... View Article -
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Erntebier Recipe for 5 US gallons (19 liters)
November 1, 2004 - Randy Mosher All-Grain Recipe 6.0 pounds (2.7 kilograms; 59.75 percent) Munich malt 4.0 pounds (1.8 kilograms; 40 percent) Pilsner malt 0.25 pound (113 grams; 0.25 percent) Röstmalz (Carafa II) Malt Extract + Steeped Grain Recipe 5.0 pounds (2.3 kilograms; 74 percent) amber dry extract 1.0 pound (0.45 kilogram; 15 percent) melanoidin/aromatic malt 0.5 pound (227 grams; 7.5... View Article -
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It’s Time for Harvest Beer!
November 1, 2004 - Randy Mosher For millennia, we were primarily an agricultural people. The ebb and flow of the seasons determined much of the rhythm of human culture. In our developed world, agriculture still occupies a lot of land, but the space it occupies in our collective psyche has shrunk almost to nothing. -
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DUMBO IPA
September 1, 2004 - Randy Mosher 5 gallons at 1100 (24 degrees P); 96 IBU; 7 to 8.5 percent ABV 20 pounds (kilograms) US two-row lager malt 0.2 ounces (6 grams), black patent malt, added at end of boil Mash one hour at 155 degrees F (66 degrees C), then mash out by adding sparge water to raise the mash temperature... View Article -
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An Ale Pales in Brooklyn
September 1, 2004 - Randy Mosher We think of India pale ales as representing the glory of the British Empire. And indeed, they served as global ambassadors of England at its zenith, shipping to the far-flung corners of the Earth. Everywhere they reached, they made an impression. This pale, clear, hoppy beer was a dramatic change from the darker and less... View Article