Hi All,
The American Homebrewers Association member presale for Historical Brewing Techniques: The Lost Art of Farmhouse Brewing is ending soon.
Take 30% off with discount code HistoricAHA and U.S. residents receive free standard shipping on their entire order with purchase of Historical Brewing Techniques.
About the Book
Ancient brewing traditions and techniques have been passed generation to generation on farms throughout remote areas of northern Europe. With these traditions facing near extinction, author Lars Marius Garshol set out to explore and document the lost art of brewing using traditional local methods. Equal parts history, cultural anthropology, social science, and travelogue, this book describes brewing and fermentation techniques that are vastly different from modern craft brewing and preserves them for posterity and exploration. Learn about uncovering an unusual strain of yeast, called kveik, which can ferment a batch to completion in just 36 hours. Discover how to make keptinis by baking the mash in the oven. Explore using juniper boughs for various stages of the brewing process. Test your own hand by brewing recipes gleaned from years of travel and research in the farmlands of northern Europe. Meet the brewers and delve into the ingredients that have kept these traditional methods alive. Discover the regional and stylistic differences between farmhouse brewers today and throughout history.
About the Author
Lars Marius Garshol is a Norwegian software engineer that travels the world to learn more about beer. Garshol spent five years researching various aspects of brewing at remote farmhouses throughout Scandinavia and the Baltic countries. He is the author of LarsBlog, a blog devoted to sharing his discoveries and travels as he researches the lost art of brewing in northern Europe. He lives with his wife and children in Rælingen, Norway.
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Got my copy today. Looks fascinating, and really attractively executed. As almost exclusively a modern lager brewer, I’ll never actually do any of this stuff, but I voraciously seek any knowledge I can get about brewing, and its history. Great geek material. It’s probably all laid out in more detail in his blog (I can happily get lost there for hours,) and I know he’s covered lots of areas there that aren’t covered in the book, but this is a cool addition to my brewing bookshelf. On my first flip through the pages, I came across the answer to a question that came up in a conversation this weekend. Thanks for the heads up on the member deal.
On a podcast the other day Matin Garshol talked about Norwegian Brewers fermenting at 40C.
The beers I’ve had can be a little estery. The one I brewed was rough at first, after several months in the back of the fridge it become something I drank a lot of. Maybe the esters complimented the pineapple from the Michigan grown Chinook, but it was yummy.
I’m excited, my copy should come in the next few weeks, hopefully I can finish Janish’s book.
Bootleg Biology’s Oslo is supposed to be very clean at lower (70 F) temperatures, but I haven’t tried it myself. I’ve tried Voss, Hothead, and Hornindal and I wouldn’t call them clean, but I’d say they put out esters that compliment hops. My experience is that most Brewers use these strains with very hoppy beers.