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Following on from our visit to Bamberg we traveled by train onto the city of Heidelberg which is famous for its highly respected university and impressive schloss (castle). Additionally the city has a few breweries in the altstadt (old town).

During a three month stay in The Netherlands we took a trip via train to the city of Bamberg which is situated in the north of Bavaria, Germany. The main purpose was to seek out a style of beer called Rauchbier which is a German smoked beer and Bamberg is well renowned for having a number of breweries specializing in these.

Recently I was contacted by WaterTestKits.com asking if I would like to review their 'Complete Water Analysis Test Kit. A couple of days later the compact lightweight kit promptly arrived.

It is commonly expressed by homebrewers, bloggers, and makers of beer-related podcasts that throwing a lot of different grains and hops at a beer, or Kitchen Sink beer as it is frequently referred, is a bad idea... so I thought I would give it a go!

NHC 2014 in Grand Rapids was great fun, alas we missed NHC 2015 in San Diego due to personal reasons, but we were glad to be able to make NHC 2016 in Baltimore.

After an afternoon at PA Flavor, we stayed an extra night in Harrisburg (PA) to attend the 2nd Battle of the Homebrew Clubs which is the official homebrew competition of Harrisburg Beer Week.

Back in 2014 we visited PA Flavor and enjoyed a great event showcasing local craft beers, foods and other related offerings - see here for the article. Alas in 2015 we had other obligations but this year our plans fell into place so on Saturday April 23 we headed to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and after checking into our hotel embarked on the 45 min walk out to the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex.

Previously in this series of articles on How to brew different Styles of Beer? we covered brewing a Belgian Golden Strong Ale, this time the Beer Style comes from Category 13: 'Brown British Beer' in the BJCP 2015 Guidelines and is the style of a British Brown Ale.

On a recent trip to New Jersey and New York City we visited World of Beer, Harvest Moon Brewery, Paulaner NYC, Belgian Beer Cafe, and Heartland Brewery to see what the State of NJ and NYC had to offer in craft beer.

Previously in this series of articles on How to brew different Styles of Beer? we covered Brewing a Belgian Golden Strong Ale, this time the Beer Style comes from Category 26: 'Trappist Ale' in the BJCP 2015 Guidelines and is re-brewing a Belgian Dubbel.