Johann Renner
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Mika Laitinen has published a guide to troubleshooting problems with fermentations using kveik and other farmhouse yeast. I really recommend this, especially for people who are reusing their cultures. www.brewingnordic.com/farmhouse-al...
Guide to Kveik and Other Farmhouse Yeast: Troubleshooting - Brewing Nordic
Learn how to solve problems when fermenting beer with kveik, Lithuanian farmhouse yeast, or baker's yeast.
www.brewingnordic.com
April 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Mika Laitinen has published a guide to troubleshooting problems with fermentations using kveik and other farmhouse yeast. I really recommend this, especially for people who are reusing their cultures. www.brewingnordic.com/farmhouse-al...
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Happy German Beer Day! April 23 is a big day for Germany beer. It's the Feast of St. George, which marked the end of the brewing season in Bavaria. It's the day that the Reinheitsgebot came into being in 1516.
But the RHGB has had a bumpy ride of late ...
tempestinatankard.com/2025/04/23/t...
But the RHGB has had a bumpy ride of late ...
tempestinatankard.com/2025/04/23/t...
The Reinheitsgebot of 1516: Seal of Quality, or Creativity Constraint? • A Tempest in a Tankard
~Setting the Stage~ I’ve been saying for years now that I’d post some of my material about the Reinheitsgebot (Beer Purity Law). Turns out it’s been one of the more difficult pieces of work to get acr...
tempestinatankard.com
April 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Happy German Beer Day! April 23 is a big day for Germany beer. It's the Feast of St. George, which marked the end of the brewing season in Bavaria. It's the day that the Reinheitsgebot came into being in 1516.
But the RHGB has had a bumpy ride of late ...
tempestinatankard.com/2025/04/23/t...
But the RHGB has had a bumpy ride of late ...
tempestinatankard.com/2025/04/23/t...
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By searching I managed to find this article, published in a Danish magazine for professional brewers in 1996. The author writes about how he observed traditional farmhouse brewing in mainland Sweden near the Norwegian border in 1996.
This was a shock to me, because I had no traces of brewing in ...
This was a shock to me, because I had no traces of brewing in ...
April 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
By searching I managed to find this article, published in a Danish magazine for professional brewers in 1996. The author writes about how he observed traditional farmhouse brewing in mainland Sweden near the Norwegian border in 1996.
This was a shock to me, because I had no traces of brewing in ...
This was a shock to me, because I had no traces of brewing in ...
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The colour of Vienna Lager: somebody (finally!) got it right.
dafteejit.com/2024/12/the-...
#homebrewing
dafteejit.com/2024/12/the-...
#homebrewing
The Colour of Vienna Lager: Somebody Got It Right - Daft Eejit Brewing
In which I explain how one beer style guideline finally got Vienna Lager right compared to historic specs we know of the beer.
dafteejit.com
December 16, 2024 at 9:47 PM
The colour of Vienna Lager: somebody (finally!) got it right.
dafteejit.com/2024/12/the-...
#homebrewing
dafteejit.com/2024/12/the-...
#homebrewing
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My chapter on the archaeology of brewing stones is finally out. It's about why people had to use hot stones to begin with, other things hot stones were used for, and what we know about the archaeological remains of fire-shattered stone. Conclusion: lots of open questions. (Link below.)
December 16, 2024 at 3:32 PM
My chapter on the archaeology of brewing stones is finally out. It's about why people had to use hot stones to begin with, other things hot stones were used for, and what we know about the archaeological remains of fire-shattered stone. Conclusion: lots of open questions. (Link below.)