{"id":11680,"date":"2013-09-03T10:28:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T16:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=11680"},"modified":"2013-09-03T10:28:57","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T16:28:57","slug":"water-a-comprehensive-guide-for-brewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/water-a-comprehensive-guide-for-brewers\/","title":{"rendered":"Water: A comprehensive guide for brewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0937381993\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0937381993&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=beertravelers\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/20130903-water.jpg\" alt=\"Water: A Comprehensive Guide for Brewers\" class=\"alignleft\"\/><\/a>This can&#8217;t be coincidence. Today we have:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; NBC Science explaining <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/embargo-9-3-10am-et-no-water-no-beer-brewers-8C11042467\">&#8220;No water, no beer: brewers race to save the ales.&#8221;<\/a> MillerCoors leads the pack, announcing today it has lowered the amount of water it uses to brew a barrel of beer to 3.82 to 1, compared to an industry-wide average of between 5 and 7 to 1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The <em>Press Democrat<\/em> writing about how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressdemocrat.com\/article\/20130902\/articles\/130909920#page=1\">several northern California breweries deal with wastewater<\/a>, a particular problem for Lagunitas Brewing as it grows so quickly. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; A story about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coloradoan.com\/article\/20130903\/NEWS01\/309030005\/Meet-Fort-Collins-residents-who-make-sure-your-beer-tastes-like-your-beer\">ensuring quality control<\/a> at Odell Brewing and New Belgium Brewing digs deep into Fort Collins water. &#8220;We don\u2019t want you to be able to tell the difference between the two breweries,&#8221; Lindsay Guerdrum, a New Belgium sensory scientist, said while discussing how the brewery can assure that beers made in Colorado and North Carolina (where it will next open a facility) will taste the same. &#8220;The challenges are going to come from a different climate, a different elevation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So it seems appropriate that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0937381993\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0937381993&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=beertravelers\">&#8220;Water: A Comprehensive Guide for Brewers&#8221;<\/a> is available for pre-order and will ship in about two weeks.<\/p>\n<p><em>(A bit of disclosure. &#8220;Water&#8221; is the third book in Brewers Publication&#8217;s &#8220;ingredients&#8221; series. I wrote the second one, and Amazon.com suggests you might want to buy them together, or even along with &#8220;Yeast.&#8221; The fourth book in the series, on malt, will be available next year.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This can&#8217;t be coincidence. Today we have: &#8211; NBC Science explaining &#8220;No water, no beer: brewers race to save the ales.&#8221; MillerCoors leads the pack, announcing today it has lowered the amount of water it uses to brew a barrel of beer to 3.82 to 1, compared to an industry-wide average of between 5 and &#8230; <a title=\"Water: A comprehensive guide for brewers\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/water-a-comprehensive-guide-for-brewers\/\" aria-label=\"More on Water: A comprehensive guide for brewers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-32o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11680"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11685,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11680\/revisions\/11685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}