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American culture is often defined by the music, TV and movies coming from California and the capitalistic energy from New York. But the true American spirit runs much deeper and older than those superficial, but oft-stereotyped, images. Americans are innovators, inventors, do-it-yourselfers who...

Glow In The Dark Beer! So, I was investigating fluorescence standards and I discovered that tonic water is fluorescent - hit it with a black light and it glows in the dark. Turns out that the magic ingredient in tonic water is quinine, which comes naturally from the bark of a South American...

The Frugal Brewer A penny saved is a penny earned. -- Ben Franklin When I started brewing, it was a novelty. I wasn't trying to save money on beer. I brewed extract, then partial extract. Then, one day, I was looking at a Northern Brewer catalog and realized how cheap grain in bulk was. That...

Here's an assortment of useful features in the HBT forum that don't get used enough. I'm a supporting (paying) member. Some of these things might not work if you are not a supporting member. Also, I have no idea if any of these apply to the mobile app; I only use the web site on my PC, with...

Mongster (Stian Mong) arrived on this forum with a bang... actually, it was a BOOM. His video was a viral hit here, even before one of our members asked him to join. Now that he's a member, we thought it would be a great idea to get to know him better, and in particular find out where Mong...

We can thank one person for almost single-handedly lifting the obscure and primitive activity of homebrewing to the artform it is today: Charlie Papazian. Charlie organized a small, nascent corps of intrepid DIY brewers into a cohesive group, formed the AHA in Boulder, Colorado, and encouraged...

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is America's prototypical pale ale, the BJCP's first example of the style, and a beer that Steven Dresler has been brewing for thirty years. Steven is the brewmaster of Sierra Nevada. He's been there nearly since its inception, one of their first employees, moving from...