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Brewers and Friends
When learning how to brew beer, it's helpful to taste new beers and find what makes them a hit for you. It's also to your benefit to have friends try out your homebrew with you and let you know how they found it. Though as long as your beer makes you happy, we're happy.
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13 Beers to Start Brewing Now for the Holidays
The holidays may feel far off at the moment, but when it comes to beer brewing, it's never too early to start. Many spicy, heavy, winter beers do best with a long conditioning time. This list has a little bit of everything to accommodate the preferences of those with whom you choose to spend the winter holidays.
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Oktoberfest Märzen
We decided that with Oktoberfest approaching, this was as good a time as any to do some research on tasty Oktoberfest picks. Though these three were similar in terms of flavor notes, they each had their own strengths. We'd highly suggest doing a tasting of one particular beer style to really get in tune with where your homebrew should be when brewing in that style.
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Most Popular Beer Recipes by Beer Style
Happy National Beer Lover's Day! We decided that the best way to celebrate beer lovers all over the nation is to list our most beloved beer recipes by beer style. The best of the best. Allow us to show off how loved these beers are by our beer-loving Mr. Beer brewers with the glowing reviews they've left on our product pages!
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Mr. Beer Launches 12 New Kits to Simplify Craft Beer Brewing From Home
Last month Mr. Beer unveiled 12 new craft beer kits on their website. The kits feature the 6 most popular craft beer styles in "complete" and "starter" kit versions, and are developed to give first time homebrewers a simple and satisfying first experience with the hobby.
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5 Beers to Start Brewing Now for Fall
Fall is a season known for luscious, spicy beer offerings to warm us as the weather gets colder. So it's no surprise that some folks don't care to be restricted to pumpkin-flavored brews only.
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Mr. Beer Craft Beer Kits
For this Thirsty Thursday we decided to do tasting notes on our own homebrews – the 6 new craft beer kits Mr. Beer just released. Though each of us had a clear favorite, we all seemed to banter on about things we'd add to each recipe, hops we might substitute, because that's the fun of our kits – creativity and customization.
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4 Beers to Start Brewing Now for Pumpkin Spice Mania
It's late August, and you can already feel it in the air – pumpkin spice EVERYTHING is approaching. No, not just the Pumpkin Spice Latte that sets Bux sippers at each other's throats for the last drop. We are talking pumpkin spice air freshener, butter, potato chips, whey protein – and maybe even toothpaste.
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Arizona Breweries
This week's Thirsty Thursday tasting was a special one. We had a special guest, Dr Tim Cooper, Managing Director and Chief Brewer for Coopers Brewery, visiting the office. So, naturally we had to celebrate his attendance with excellent beer selection. Aside from offering up two homebrew creations from our own brewing room for Dr Tim to try, we brought in 3 delicious beers from Arizona breweries.
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5 Beers to Start Brewing Now for Oktoberfest
Oktoberfest 2016 runs from September 17th until October 3rd. Even if you aren't game to splurge on a plane ticket to Munich to hang out with the roughly 6 million people who go each year, we're guessing you'll celebrate from where you are. Sure, there will be some nice local festivals and shindigs at local pubs, but we at Mr.Beer are all about DIY.
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Barrel-Aged Beer
In anticipation of our own Lock Stock and Barrel (Aged) Stout release, the Mr. Beer team chose to dedicate our Thursday to trying out the heavy hitters of the barrel-aged beer realm. Barrel-aged beer tasting gets you comfortable much faster than typical beer tasting.
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Weizen Glass
Hefe fans are sure to know this glass, as Weizen glasses are the ones that properly highlight your tall, gold brew with that lovely cut of citrus that pubs like to slip on the lip. Betcha didn't know that the acidity of those fresh citrus slices can kill the white fluffy head wheat beers are well-known for! Weizen, meaning "wheat" in German, refers to the types of beer meant to be enjoyed from this glass, including...
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Gose
Gose(pronounced Gos-uh) is a delicious deviation from the sour beer norm that has been popping up with more frequency this summer, and as our Brewmaster Josh says, it's a great "training wheels beer" for those who haven't tried sour beers much before. Gose's relatively low ABV (4.0-5.0%), mild tartness, and bright, crisp flavor make it an excellent summer sipping beer.
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