Brewing with round bacon??
More pictures of my handsome smiling face.
I’d also like to see a water chemistry and adjustments.
Perhaps John Palmer could be convinced to do a follow-up to the RA topic and pitch the upcoming water book?
The history info would be great; the people, places, and even the politics of brewing’s foundations.
How about some comparative analysis? There are so many grain choices, with more showing up all the time (including a lot of organic malt). The same for yeasts. So why not a recipe per month where two grains and two yeasts are compared? They could be two 10 gallon batches so that the four combinations could be tried. I know it’d be a hardship to find volunteers to help rate and dispose of all that beer, but perhaps you could manage!
I’d like to see one super geeky issue.
Normally the magazine is full of interesting geeky bits here and there but I’d like to see a complete “Beer by the numbers” issue.
It’d starting with malt analysis sheets and water lab info, moving on to the mash pH and mash gravity tests, then to wort stability tests and propagating yeast and end with fast ferment tests and fermenter geometry.
That’s probably my dream issue of zymurgy.
Also, like to see Gordon Strong’s recipes - he choose many ingredients that I wouldn’t have thought of for a particular style - it offers a lot of insight, I think.
my $0.02
Maybe the “Gordon Strong Swimsuit Issue”? :o
Ok, that conjures up a disturbing picture!
More or less disturbing than the “Denny in a Speedo” that was mentioned on page 2 of this thread ???
I would like to think that we could all agree that a “Ubiquitous AHA Forum Members in Banana Hammocks” issue would likely be what we’d NOT like to see in 2011.
I agree! 
How about taking a piece of geeky brewing research and dumb it down to a Joe 6 pack level? I want to know what people are experimenting with and what the results are but I can get through these technical research papers.
That’s a great idea. Take a very technical topic and put it in average homebrewer terms and explain how it relates to what we do.
I like the idea too, and I’d love to write some of the yeast ones!
Find a paper you want to “demystify” and contact Jill!
I’ve got a long list
In that case, I’ll look forward to your article!
I haven’t read every post here, so forgive me if I reiterate something already said.
The owner of my LHBS and I were talking about Zymurgy, and that other magazine. He remarked that he can’t understand why he hangs on to his stack of magazines over the years. I remarked that homebrew mags were a lot like fishing mags, i.e., everything just seems to be recycled over time to where you end up reading the same stuff, over and over again. Now, I realize that new developments may arise in homebrewing to which articles will be devoted, but these will be far and few between, no? So, I guess what I’m saying is that I would interested in topics that are “new”, topics that will actually impart knowledge that hasn’t been imparted umpteen times before. A tall order perhaps, but, you asked.
I’d be willing to bet that in every issue of each mag, there’s something that’s “new” to someone.
How about a home brewery issue. The top ten home breweries with photos of course. Homebrewers can send their photos with a short story behind the home brewery.
How do you decide on the top 10? Fanciest, most expensive equipment?