by DJ Spiess | Mar 5, 2009 | Homebrewing
I’ve been working the last few days on a new web project for homebrewers and one task is calculating alcohol content. You’d be surprised how many different ways there are to estimate the same value. How much sugar, sugar (ahh honey, honey) Before you can...
by DJ Spiess | Feb 27, 2009 | Beer
When I first read the reader’s comment I thought, here we go again. I’ve written about how Canadian beers are not stronger than American beers (when you compare the macro brews), but the reader’s claim was slightly different. This claim is Canadian...
by DJ Spiess | Jan 13, 2009 | Beer
Where does this beer myth come from? American beer used to use alcohol by weight to denote the alcohol content in beer. Some areas still use alcohol by weight, but there has been an effort to convert to alcohol by volume in the past decade. Alcohol by volume is a...