Author: Stan Hieronymus
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What's BrewingThe Homebrewer Who Doesn’t Drink
June 11, 2014 - Stan Hieronymus At first it might seem like a joke, or a headline you’d find in a satire-based magazine. However, spend enough time in certain homebrewing circles and the name Michael Crane comes up. He’s the gold-medal-winning homebrewer who seldom drank beer, or any alcoholic beverages for that matter, before he began making beer at home. Perhaps... View Article -
CultureThe Class of ’88
January 1, 2014 - Stan Hieronymus Fifty-six American breweries began operating in 1988. By necessity, 55 of them started small. That they all started 25 years ago was mostly coincidence. Noteworthy breweries opened in pretty much every one of the years before and after. But ultimately, as Goose Island Beer Co. founder John Hall put it, “It was a special year.”... View Article -
Full Pints - People FeaturesPreserving a Beer Legacy
September 1, 2013 - Stan Hieronymus The world’s best-known beer writer did not claim to get everything right at first. “Obviously, I’m learning all the time, and revising my ideas. Nor did I start with the assumption that I knew better than anyone else,” Michael Jackson wrote to American beer importer Charles Finkel in 1981. “My initial contribution was not knowledge... View Article -
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Why a Beer Can Smell Bitter
May 1, 2013 - Stan Hieronymus Most discussions about hops naturally include bitterness. As well as hop oils, lupulin glands within the cone contain hard and soft resins and polyphenols. The soft resins include alpha acids and beta acids, both of which contribute to bitterness, with isomerized alpha acids (iso-alpha acids), converted during wort boiling, the primary source. In fact, there... View Article -
Brewing Features - Full PintsA Taste for Hops
May 1, 2013 - Stan Hieronymus Writing a manual on hops in 1877, British agricultural authority P.L. Simmonds praised those grown around the town of Spalt in Bavaria. “The products are of a high reputation, and are the Chateau Lafitte, the Clos de Vougent, and the Johannisberg, as it were, of hops of continental growths,” he wrote. He didn’t offer a... View Article -
Book Reviews - Full Pints100 Belgian Beers To Try Before You Die
July 1, 2011 - Stan Hieronymus There’s a good reason that an odd number of judges sit at “best of show” tables in beer competitions—that way there are no ties. When two, rather than one or three, authors set out to identify the best beers in a country known for uncompromising beers, compromising choices might result. Tim Webb and Joris Pattyn... View Article -
Book Reviews - Full PintsBeer Compendia
January 1, 2011 - Stan Hieronymus 500 Beers By Zak Avery Sellers Publishing, Hard cover, $16.95, 288 pp 1001 Beers You Must Taste Before You Die Edited by Adrian Tierney-Jones Universe, Hard cover, $36.95, 960 pp World’s Best Beers: One Thousand Craft Brews from Cask to Glass By Ben McFarland Sterling Innovation, Hard cover, $29.95, 290 pp The Beer Trials By... View Article -
Beer Travelers - Full PintsBrew-Ski
June 30, 2010 - Stan Hieronymus If you were going to build a Victorian mountain town to add historic charm to the valley below a ski conglomerate of hotels and condominiums, it would probably look just about like Crested Butte, CO.