Hetch Hetchy Hop Heads Page
AHA Registered Homebrew Club
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Various Stuff
The Hetch Hetchy Hop Heads is a group of home brewers who brew ales, lagers, stouts, barley wine, meads, bocks, just about everything except Sake, and are pretty good at it. Some wine is also brewed.
Skill and experience (and equipment) vary widely, but everyone loves beer and socializing. The group is mostly male ... but there are a few women brewers who every so often grace our meetings. Who's the best brewer in the Hop Heads? That is a good question, and its probably Curt because he's got the biggest boiling kettle, but you'll have to show up yourself with some of your homebrew for peer review or for questions and assistance with brewing techniques and off-taste(s) identification.
COPENHAGEN - Moderate consumption of beer reduces the risk of heart disease just as well as red wine, the Danish Brewers Association said Wednesday.
``It cannot be proved that there is any health advantage in drinking red wine, for example, rather than beer,'' the lobby said in a statement, citing a study by the Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine at the University of Muenster.
``Epidemiologic studies indicate that light to moderate alcohol consumption from beer, wine or spirits is associated with a reduction in all-cause mortality, owing primarily to a reduced risk of coronary heart disease,'' the study showed.
The findings of Professor Ulrich Keils study based on 2,000 people in southern Germany contradicted a Danish study published in December, which found that people drinking moderate amounts of wine had a lower risk of stroke than those who consumed beer or spirits.
Lars Bech, chief spokesman of the Danish Brewers Association, told the tabloid Ekstra-Bladet it was a coincidence that the new study was released on the threshold of Denmark's summer holiday period when beer consumption usually rises sharply.
BY GILLIAN HARRIS
SCOTLAND CORRESPONDENT
THE first heavy drinkers in Britain were Neolithic farmers on a Hebridean island, archaeologists have discovered.
Experts who examined a 3,000-year-old site close to the Callanish standing stones on Lewis believe that the islanders were the first Britons to indulge in the "ritualistic and habitual" use of alcohol.
Their apparent fondness for drink and their known fascination with the Moon suggested that alcohol was an important part of their lives, said Geraint Coles, an environmental archaeologist at Edinburgh University. "There is a theory that they were a cult who based their lives around the ritualistic and habitual use of alcohol," Dr Coles said.
Evidence to support his view was uncovered by engineers from Hydro Electric, who stumbled upon the farm site when they were laying power lines. They discovered numerous drinking vessels buried in the peat.
Archaeologists found that they contained traces of a potent beer made from heather, and a honey-based mead. The farmers are also thought to have created a crude form of whisky. They also grew wheat to grind into flour, kept sheep and cattle, fished and hunted deer.
The farmers are thought to have erected the Callanish standing stones, arranged in the shape of a Celtic cross. The enormous slabs, some more than 16ft high and weighing six tons, have a burial cairn at their centre and are in line with the rising and setting of the Moon.