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Transcript I’m Catherine Kyle, the general manager of the Blank Tiger here in the West Village of Manhattan where we have been serving craft beer since 1996. I started working with craft beer in 2000. It was a job that I stumbled into but I quickly became a passion. First of all, I found it absolutely …

Transcript For most of time, most beers produced have been produced with the intention of drinking them fairly quickly after they are done brewing. There are some beers however that have been aged in their process and they are specifically the Belgian Lambics. Now recently there has been a lot more interest in aging beer. …

Transcript Does beer go bad? In a short answer yes. But the answer is a bit more nuanced. Beer loses it’s freshness, beer loses so many aspects that make it delicious as time goes on in general. And that is going to be true for your Hopi Beers and many very delicate beers, you want …

Transcript First thing to remember is that beer is a live product, so you wanna think of it more like milk and less like a can of seltzer water. In that, you know, wanna keep, keep it at a constant, cool temperature. You wanna use it when it’s fresh. You don’t wanna, you know, you …

Transcript We are extremely lucky to be living in, what I consider to be, the Golden Age of beer. As a result, there as so many awesome breweries that I want to tell you about. We’re going to start off with some of the stallwoods. Firestone Walker, Green Flash, Lagunitas, Brooklyn, Peekskill. If you get …

Transcript Beer festivals are as varied as are the types of brewers anywhere. you can find ones that are put on by, you know a single brewery, but usually if they’re calling it a beer festival you’re gonna have access to, you know many other brewers to try as well. These can range from you …

Transcript A lot of breweries will offer tours and they are really fun things to do. Most of them will take you through at least part of the facility itself so you can get of, not quite a hands on idea of how to brew, but at least a real good visual idea. You’ll see …

Transcript Beer tourism is something that is building and building. For a long time people would make the trek to Belgium to see the traditional Belgian breweries and I really encourage that if you’re able to do so. Also, people will go to Germany to see traditional German breweries and England to see the traditional …

Transcript In general you’re looking for a common experience and flavor and style. I would suggest that you choose your cheese first because there’s a lot more variety, I guess, you know, in terms of the cheeses. So once you have your cheese, your you then want to think about wha-what what might need that? …

Transcript There is a very versatile beverage for pairing, some think even more so than wine. I, myself think so. There are different principles that can be used when deciding which beers to pair with which foods, one of them is complimenting, where you want to compliment a certain flavor in the food with a …

Transcript Gluten free beer is beer that is brewed with sorghum, buckwheat, or millet. Usually one of those three things, or a mixture, is what would be used in gluten free beer instead of the barely. And brewers do this to accommodate people who have a gluten intolerance. And it’s a real challenge because the …

Transcript Nitrogen beers are beers that use a larger percentage of nitrogen in the carbonation process. The ratio is usually around 70 percent nitrogen to 30 percent carbon dioxide and those are the gases that actually carbonate the beer when they come out the draft. Nitrogen beer is most closely associated with the dry Irish stout …

Transcript Cask ales are unfiltered and unpasteurized ales that are designed to undergo a secondary fermentation in the cask, which will produce some natural carbonation. A lot of people refer to them as real ales because the carbonation comes form inside the beer itself instead of being forced into it from a gas system, which …

Transcript Coffee is a flavor that, as you would imagine, would go really well with the roasted or slightly bitter flavors of a porter or stout, but you can really use coffee in a wide variety of beers. There’s been lately a few coffee IPAs on the market that are stunningly delicious. So I found …

Transcript Brewers can coat? like some chocolate-like flavors out of roasting the malt. There’s even a variety of malt called chocolate malt because of it’s chocolate-like properties that it can lend to the beer. But also a lot of brewers will put actual chocolate, work the cow into the brewing process in order to get a …

Transcript As with many things in the craft brewing community, there are many differences of opinion about what exactly a session beer is. But, to my mind, and many people will agree, a session beer is a beer that you can have multiple beers of, and that really encompasses two aspects. Number 1, it needs …

Transcript A typical example of a Belgian strong ale is the tripel. A tripel is going to be light golden in color, it’s going to be extremely high in alcohol, but it does not taste like it. Another type of strong ale is the Belgian golden ale. It’s a lot like the tripel, except it’s …

Transcript In terms of an actual style of beer, the Bamberger Rauchbier is your truest example. It’s a lager made with malt that has been smoked over well-seasoned beech wood. In terms of what’s happening today in the craft brew world, many different brewers are experimenting with smoke and smoke malt is available, also a lot …

Transcript Barrel aging and craft beer is usually done for 1 of 2 reasons. One is to extract some flavour properties from the wood or the liquid that was in the barrel previously. The other is to encourage the growth of microflora which might add a souring aspect to the beer. The most common barrels …

Transcript Fruit beers are beers that have fruit added to them during the brewing process, it’s pretty straightforward, but when you think about what fruit actually adds, if you do it you know during the fermentation process, if that’s when you add the beer, it’s gonna give the, the beer more sugars to ferment, so …

Transcript Belgium as a region held onto a wide range of their ancient brewing techniques. There are many things that set Belgian beers apart from other beers. The first primary reason is their yeast. Over the years their yeast really developed into something very distinct and special. Belgian beers can also be slightly spiced. You …

Transcript Sour beers is another style of beers that are increasing in popularity. Although they tend to be very, very hard to grasp if you don’t have a particular like for it. I remember the first time I tried a sour beer. You know, I took a sip and put it down and my mouth …

Transcript Wheat beers are beers that substitute wheat for part of the cereal. So you’ll have, you know, your normal ingredients of beer, your water, hops, you know, your barley and your yeast, but you’ll also have, you know, some of that barley taken out and replaced with wheat. They’re going to be pale, fruity, …

Transcript IPAs came about when the English brewers were beginning to sen their pale ales over to the English people that were colonizing India, and what happened is that they knew that hops was a preservative and they thought maybe the beer would last longer and actually make the voyage all the way to India, …