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Beer Styles
What Are Chasers Used For? Drinks, Mixers and Backs
A chaser is a drink taken after or alongside another drink, often as a separate serving. People may use it to change the taste left in…
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Homebrewing
What Can You Use Instead of Brewing Sugar?
The best substitute for brewing sugar depends on what the sugar is doing. A sugar used to contribute fermentables to a recipe is different from the…
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Beer Styles
What Blue Moon Tastes Like: Citrus, Wheat and Spice
Blue Moon Belgian White is a wheat ale whose producer describes a citrus-and-spice character built around Valencia orange peel and coriander. Wheat and oats contribute to…
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Beer Styles
High-ABV Beer: Strength Claims and Current Examples
Claims about the beer with the highest alcohol content require a definition, a date and reliable product evidence. Different lists mix fermentation-only beers with concentrated products,…
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Beer Styles
Beer Strength and Serving Size: Compare the Alcohol
No beer can be ranked reliably by how quickly it will make every person drunk. That question mixes a beverage's measurable alcohol content with an individual's…
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Beer Styles
Beer Without Hops: Gruit, Ingredients and Better Questions
Some grain-based fermented beers are made without hops, including certain modern gruit-inspired recipes. However, low bitterness, herbal flavor and an old-fashioned name do not prove that…
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Homebrewing
What Are Adjuncts in Beer Making? Grains, Sugars and Purpose
Adjuncts are additional fermentable ingredients used alongside the main malt component of a beer recipe. Common examples include unmalted cereal grains, rice, corn and brewing sugars.…
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Beer Styles
Blue Moon Alcohol Content: Check the Exact Product
Blue Moon Belgian White Wheat Ale is listed at 5.4% alcohol by volume on the producer's current US product page. That figure describes this specific beer.…
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Beer Styles
Stout vs Beer: Why Stout Is Part of the Beer Family
Stout is beer. Comparing stout with beer as though they are separate drinks confuses a style family with the broader category that contains it. The more…
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Brewing Equipment
Stainless Steel vs Copper Wort Chiller: Buying Guide
Copper conducts heat better than stainless steel, but that fact alone does not tell you which wort chiller to buy. Coil length, tube arrangement, exposed surface,…
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Homebrewing
Is Secondary Fermentation Necessary? A Transfer Decision Guide
A secondary fermenter is usually unnecessary for an ordinary homebrewed ale that will ferment, condition briefly and then be packaged. Leave the beer in its original…
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Brewing Equipment
Refractometer vs Hydrometer
A hydrometer is the simpler choice for checking finished beer. A refractometer is convenient for small samples on brew day, but alcohol changes its reading once…
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