Chancellor Ale

College and beer go together like, well, college and beer. But did your college brew its own? For almost 600 years, Queen’s College at Ox

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A History of Malt Extract

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Colonial Ale

Using a handwritten recipe unearthed at an eighteenth-century Virginia plantation, a homebrewer and archaeologist recreated Mrs. Cary’s Good

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American Beers and Prohibition

 American beers, pre and post-Prohibition.  The Wiz knows…

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Reinheitsgebot: Behind the German Beer Purity Law

The Reinheitsgebot is more than an ad slogan. It’s a historical document that says a lot about the development of German-style brewing. 

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Searching for Medieval Ale

Today’s homebrewer can recreate history with a few basic ingredients and a little imagination

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Homebrewing During Prohibition

The reputation of homebrewers suffered during the Noble Experiment.

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Julius Caesar’s Beer

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16th Century Homebrewers

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Revolutionary Brewing

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Prohibition Pilsner

Find out what beer was like in the time of Al Capone. We’ve got the recipe for his once-illegal brew.