July/August 2011

Technical Brewing Issue

For the July/August 2011 The New Brewer, we present our annual Technical Brewing issue. In this issue, we take a look at topics such as barrel aging, Brettanomyces, and dissolved oxygen.

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Technical Brewing Issue

The Basics of Barrels

So you’ve decided to make a barrel-aged beer. You’ve spent hours imagining the symphony of flavors that will be developed, but how do you get started?

Technical Brewing Issue

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Reducing Dissolved Oxygen

Dana Johnson

Cleaning the bright tank (or serving tank in brewpubs) with acid and detergent only, rather than using caustic or other alkaline cleaners, can help reduce dissolved oxygen.

Fast Starters

Jack Curtin

Myriad brewpubs and small production breweries have opened in recent years and a surprising number have achieved impressive sales and critical success within months.

Branching Out

Jeff O'Neil

Most common among the vessels employed in breweries are barrels that have been previously purposed with the storage of other beverages. How do you get them?

A Closer Look at Brettanomyces

Chad Yakobson

These days it seems everyone is talking about Brett, but what makes it so fascinating is that very little knowledge exists about this yeast and its use in brewing.

A Note From the Editor

Jill Redding, Editor-in-Chief

This issue also includes most of our usual informative departments, plus brewery-generated news about the craft brewing community in the Brew News and Beer Releases sections; and new products and services from the allied trade in Industry Supplier News. In our back-page interview, we highlight Cigar City’s Wayne Wambles.

Cheers, and we hope you enjoy this issue of The New Brewer.

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