{"id":723,"date":"2014-03-18T21:01:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T02:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hdmzweb.hu.mtu.edu\/cookingbooks\/?p=723"},"modified":"2014-03-21T09:35:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T14:35:37","slug":"723","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hdmzweb.hu.mtu.edu\/cookingbooks\/?p=723","title":{"rendered":"The Future Of The Brew Master"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Craft Beer Sampling<\/p><\/div>\n

After making my own wine, I decided I would take on the craft of brewing my own beer. My recent purchase of Greg Hughes’ book, Home Brew Beer<\/em><\/a>, pushed me to find out even more about brewing beer. I found The Homebrew Academy<\/a> website while searching for some recipes. Created by Billy Broas, the site is basically an online training course for people looking to brew their first batch of beer. I signed up as a member to get access to the free training videos and interactive graphics.<\/p>\n

A line on the About page<\/a> really stood out to me: “You don\u2019t need a book, you just need a computer and a beer in your hand.” This is quite true for many current recipes and how-to guides; you don’t need to buy cookbooks anymore. There are millions of websites providing recipes with step-by-step instructions for users to follow (About 142,000,000 results show up with a simple Google search of “recipes”). Broas’ Homebrew Academy takes it a step further and created video tutorials teaching users how to make their own craft beer. I must say that the videos are great quality and really helpful. I see recipe publishing trending towards interactive graphics, videos, and media overall. These make following recipes much easier for the everyday, busy and impatient American.<\/p>\n

While my new Home Brew Beer<\/em> book has beautiful photographs of equipment, ingredients and the final brew, the Homebrew Academy is extremely helpful and easy for beginners to follow. I think having a combination of books and online recipe resources makes for the most knowledgeable chef or brew master. Don’t get me wrong, I love surfing the web with a beer in my hand. I also like reading a physical hard-cover beer recipe book. Of course, with a beer in my hand. Don’t worry, beer is healthy for you.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

If you liked The Homebrew Academy site, check out its parent site,\u00a0<\/span>billybrew.com<\/a> which was also created by Broas. This brew site contains more background information about Billy, <\/span>recipes with beer<\/a>, and food and beer pairing.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After making my own wine, I decided I would take on the craft of brewing my own beer. My recent purchase of Greg Hughes’ book, Home Brew Beer, pushed me to find out even more about brewing beer. I found…<\/p>\n

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