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Home Brewing System: What Equipment Do You Need?

If you love drinking beer and are thinking about starting a home brewing system, there are a few things to keep in mind. Starting your own home beer brewing system is really not all that difficult, but it is important to follow the given steps so that you know that you are going to be [...]

All About Fairies and Absinthe

We’ve all heard of Absinthe or Absinthe kit, known as the drink of the Green Fairy, and those who have watched Moulin Rouge see Ewan McGregor and his Bohemian friends tripping out and seeing the Green Fairy and other strange things. Artists and writers, such as Toulouse Lautrec,Ernest Hemingway,Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Oscar Wilde, [...]

How And Where To Host A Wine Tasting

Host a wine tasting and you and your friends will get to explore the characteristics of different wines. Tasting wine involves the sensory evaluation of wine, and includes noticing the color and aroma, and the taste and feel of the wine on the palate with the aim of determining the quality of the wine and [...]

Celebrity Winemakers

The growing number of celebrity names (alive and dead) associated with wine seems to be a trend that’s almost irresistible.  True, we haven’t yet had a Michael Jackson cabernet, but the vineyards are crawling with vintages from dead celebrities including Elvis Presley (Elvis Blue Suede Chardonnay 2001, Jailhouse Red Merlot 2002, and Blue Christmas Cabernet [...]

Top Shiraz Wine Guide!

What is Shiraz?
Shiraz is the most popular wine making grape in Australia. This grape is also grown in France. In France the Shiraz grape is known as Syrah. The Shiraz grape has also become a popular grape for wine makers in California.
The History of Shiraz Wine
It is said that [...]

Why You Need To Properly Store Your Wine

If you’re like me, you like your wine…a lot, and you drink it after work, with a special meal, or for a particular occasion. You probably have a couple bottles on hand with one white in the fridge and a red in the pantry, unless you are a true wine enthusiast and have a full [...]

Home Wine Cellars – How To Build Your Own

Building a home wine cellar is the perfect way to age your wine collection. Your cellar should be designed to correctly store wine as it ages, ensuring that the wine develops complexity and depth and does not spoil.
Building a home wine cellar from scratch may seem like a daunting process, but the first step that [...]

Is Caffeine The Next Nutritional Border For Our Country?

America is being bombarded by 16 ounce lattes and mega energy drinks. It is now acceptable for our youth to consume several sugary coffee drinks or highly caffeinated energy drinks each day. Health officials will soon admit what I have been known to be brewing the last several years: We [...]

The Development of Education in Africa

EDUCATION in Africa has a history reaching back many centuries. Certainly the achievements of the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Ethiopia are well known. Then, early in the first millennium of the Common Era, the Moors and other peoples on the northern fringe of Africa made notable contributions to world education and culture. And during [...]

Living Room Volcano: Brewing Beer

This is a short clip of an over-active fermentation stage in the home-brewing of beer.
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