Category Archives: Beer

Summertime Beer

Nantucket's Best Summer Beer

Light beer? Trying to keep a toned beach-body?

TRY THESE SUMMER BEERS:

-Nantucket’s Whales Tale Pale Ale www.ciscobrewers.com

-Nantucket’s Sankaty Light Lager www.ciscobrewers.com

-Cape Cod’s Beach Blonde www.capecodebeer.com

-Martha’s Vineyard East Chop Lighthouse Lager www.offshoreale.com

-Hampton VA Summer Ale www.stgeorgebrewingco.com

-Hampton NY Brooklyn Summer Ale www.rowdyhall.com

-Boca Raton’s Pineapple Hop Gun www.thefunkybuddha.com

-Hilton Heads Summer Wheat Hilton Head Brewing Company

When your sitting having a cool clean crisp beer do you ever wonder how it is made?

We all know the effects (and after-effects) of beer. But lifting a glass of cool liquid to your mouth on a scorching hot day, have you ever stopped to consider the processes and ingredients involved in making it? Well maybe not but here is the answer anyway!

Simply, beer is a fermented combination of water, barley, yeast and hops. The major variation in any beer is the type of yeast used in the fermentation process.
Let’s look at the properties of this beverage.
Water is the main ingredient of beer. In the past, the purity of the water influenced the  final result and was specific to the region of the earth from which it came. Today, water is filtered of these impurities, although pure water supplies are still ideally preferred by elite brewers.
Barley malt is an extremely important ingredient in beer as it is the main source of fermentable sugar. Many new breweries use barley malt extract, in either syrup or powder form, as this form ferments much quicker.  It also contains many minerals and vitamins that help the yeast to grow. Read more »