Author: Stan Hieronymus
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Brewing ChemistryThe Family Tree of Yeast
May 1, 2017 - Stan Hieronymus Per Kølster, who grows his own raw materials to brew beer in the countryside outside Copenhagen, Denmark, headed east several years ago to learn more about traditional farmhouse brewing. In Lithuania he made beer with a local farmer, and when it came time to pitch yeast, they walked to a neighboring farm to collect what... View Article -
Brewing FeaturesFlavor Matching: How Breweries with Multiple Locations Create Consistency
September 8, 2016 - Stan Hieronymus This article appears in the November issue of All About Beer Magazine. Subscribe today and have All About Beer Magazine delivered to your mailbox, tablet, smartphone or computer. Twenty years ago there was a chance that a beer drinker in Manhattan might open a bottle of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale that had traveled 2,850 miles from Chico, California,... View Article -
Web OnlyObserving A Decade of Change in St. Louis
July 11, 2016 - Stan Hieronymus In a few hours the first St. Louis Brewers Heritage Festival would begin, modest in one way and grand in another. But Schlafly Beer co-founder Dan Kopman wasn’t talking about the near future on the second Friday of May 2007 when he suggested, “We’re going to find out how passionate St. Louis is about beer.”... View Article -
People FeaturesBeer’s No. 1 Super Fan
December 2, 2015 - Stan Hieronymus Beer Dave pulls a can of Uinta Trader Session IPA out of his cooler, flips it upside down, looks around and shakes his head. “Need a church key,” he says, heading off to borrow one. Opening it from the top, using the tab Uinta thoughtfully provided, is not an option. Church key—a device otherwise known... View Article -
Book ReviewsHoofing It in Hallertau
July 1, 2015 - Stan Hieronymus More than a half-dozen years ago, Firestone Walker brewmaster Matt Brynildson paused in the middle of a conversation about the relationship between agriculture and beer and nodded toward Eric Toft, a Wyoming native who has brewed beer in Bavaria for more than 20 years. He said he wished he could be “as connected as [Toft]... View Article -
Web OnlyHomebrewer Brews IPA at Anheuser-Busch’s Pilot Research Brewery
March 11, 2015 - Stan Hieronymus The nine giant red letters that spell out “BUDWEISER” in capital letters and sit atop the Bevo building at Anheuser-Busch’s brewery in St. Louis look plenty big viewed from Busch Stadium and various downtown buildings two miles to the north, yet nowhere as immense as up close and at eye level, from the upper floors... View Article -
HistoryHow Craft Became Craft
March 1, 2015 - Stan Hieronymus When All About Beer Magazine was launched in 1979, nobody talked, wrote or maybe even dreamt about something called craft beer. Five years later Vince Cottone, a beer columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer who contributed to numerous publications, first used the phrases craft-brewing scene, craft brewery and craft brewing in the manner they are thought... View Article -
Web OnlyThe Beer Algorithm Will Select Your Next Glass
January 8, 2015 - Stan Hieronymus If Heady Topper Double IPA is the best beer in the world, then why does the beer recommendation app Next Glass return a personalized score of 56.3 out of 100 when I scan the can with my phone? a) It knows me better than I know myself. b) The guys programming the app have been... View Article