Good beer gets better when served at the right temperature. Here’s a general guide and another one. What I like about these guides is that they make sense and can be easily remembered.
Even with a guide, I highly recommend experimentation. Try the same beer at three different temperature. It’s eye opening how different a beer tastes when slightly warmer.1
Crap beer always tastes like crap, but it goes down quicker when it’s cold.
Go ahead, try to tell me this isn’t awesome. A 64oz. double walled stainless steel growler.
I’m enjoying BeerBuddy 1, primarily for its RateBeer.com integration.
Scan a barcode on a bottle:2
Within a second or two the app gets the details about the beer along with the RateBeer.com ratings and reviews.
It also provides beer check-ins like in Untappd but with less social cruft. I really like the option to record a beer that I have in my cellar rather than a beer I just drank. The downside is that the data stays in the app and there is no way to export it or save it outside of the app.
Yes, they do. Beer cataloging and rating is still lacking on iOS.
Mmmm. Yeast.
Pliny the Elder voted best US Beer for the fourth year.
Want a kegerator that automatically sends an update to the Untappd service? This post has you covered.
One of my favorite brewers. Their story is great and I love the beer partially because of the people behind it. If you like good beer, do yourself a favor and seek out Pretty Things.
That's what I got out of it... a few good pints and a husband.
— Martha Paquette
I built my own under-counter kegerator for the home bar. I plan to build a keezer for the garage this summer. I'll probably get a bit fancier than this though. I'll also build it into my work bench to save space in the garage.
I buy a lot of supplies from Northern Brewer. They're good.
The BreweryDB.com site has received a big update, along with the API. This looks really good. Perhaps the best company name yet: Pint Labs.
It looks beautiful and could rival BeerAdvocate.com for beer nerds. Especially since it has an API for apps.
