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Beer Department: Get to know a style: Nitrogen In Beer

One of the things we all love about beer is the fizz! All those fizzy bubbles help aroma perception, create texture, and improve beer’s versatility with food. A cold glass of beer with a proper collar of foam is a thing of beauty; that’s why you should always insist beer pours with an appropriate head. Flat beer is a terrible beer!

But I digress. In bottled and canned beer, the bubbles called carbonation are either a result of the beer forcibly injected with CO2 or naturally occurring CO2 created during fermentation.

C’est Découvrir la France

French food is renowned around the globe for the care and attention spent preparing, and consuming, each meal.
In France, mealtimes are never spent hurriedly eating a granola bar at your desk or snacking in front of a television. Instead, French meals are always eaten at the table, often consist of multiple courses, and are spent with family and friends. This philosophy is so important to French culture that most schools and offices take at least an hour,

Beer Department: Get to know a style: Double/Imperial IPA

I had so much fun writing about hefeweizen last month I thought I’d keep the train rolling with a profile on another beer style: the vaunted Double IPA, also known as Imperial IPA. This style of beer is distinctly American in origin and has been winning over devoted hop lovers for the better part of the last 30 years.

To start, let us understand that the terms Double IPA (DIPA) and Imperial IPA (IIPA) are interchangeable.

Beer Department: Get to know a style: Hefeweizen

As spring begins to loom on the horizon and the weather (hopefully) begins making a turn for the better, I’ve noticed that a stalwart of craft beer, the humble wheat beer, has seen a resurgence in popularity lately. Bearing this in mind, I thought it high time we better understand one specific style of wheat beer: the Hefeweizen.

To start, let’s understand that today I’ll be describing Hefeweizen specifically, also known as hefeweissbier or simply weissbier.

What is Lunar New Year?

Happy New Year! Even though January 1 has come and gone, one of the biggest New Year celebrations in the world is coming up! It’s time for Lunar New Year, a huge holiday that happens once a year, usually between January 21 and February 20.

Beer Department: How to Age Beer

As a general rule, the overwhelming majority of beer should be consumed fresh and all beer is packaged tasting the way the brewer intended it to taste. However, some beers possess characteristics that will allow them to develop interesting and new flavors over time, given the correct storage conditions. Devoting age-worthy beers to a cellar (whether makeshift or elaborate) allows you, the drinker, to take part in the creation of the finished product because these age-worthy beers will often taste drastically different after months or years developing in a cellar.