Tips for placing orders with our new fraud prevention features🍻

New Fraud Prevention

As our website continues to be attacked month after month, we have rolled out many new security features. They mostly operate behind the scenes, but there are a few things you can do to ensure your order goes through without feeling like you need a beer to de-stress. In our ten years of business, we have never experienced attacks (and loses) to this degree.

Here are some tips for a smooth check out process:

Use a US based IP address (including while using a virtual private network).
The billing address must match the address on record with your credit card.
Ship orders to the same address as the billing address whenever possible.
Use a US based credit/debit card (with AVS security features).

Please contact us if you experience any difficulties. We are working with our payment gateway service provider to minimize impact to our loyal customers.

International Services

For our loyal international customers, mostly to the north, we have grandfathered you in as international customers. International services for new customers have been suspended. If you have a non-US based credit/debit card, it will no longer work on our website. Please contact us to place your international orders.

Yeast Terminology

The role of yeast has been of extra interest to me recently as I work on low/non alcohol beer. I have always had a soapbox about why yeast is so important. You can read entire books just about yeast, although, I don't know why you would.

Here are the most common terms and why they are important.

Alcohol Tolerance - The ability of yeast to continue fermentation in the presence of alcohol.

Attenuation - The amount of wort/must sugars a yeast can consume.

ABV - The measurement of alcohol by volume determined by measuring the difference between original and final gravity (and dividing by 0.0075).

Flavor Profile - The flavors resulting from esters, acids, terpenes, and thiols during fermentation.

Flocculation - The behavior of suspended particles in wort/must that tend to clump together in large masses and settle out.

In short, everything above will affect whatever you are brewing. However, with a little knowledge, you have the ability to determine how they will affect your next brew.

Alcohol tolerance, attenuation and flocculation are commonly designated by High/Low or percentage in the specs (sometimes) listed on the sachet of yeast.

Brew our new Coffee Infused Lager recipe!

Hybrid Drinking: Beer & Coffee

We have lived in a world of diversity and personal expression for quite some time. From THC infused seltzer water to kombucha cocktails, hybrid beverages reflect changing values. Although blended beer and wine has been around for thousands of years, beer and coffee has been popular since the 1990's. It (as well as others) has given beer a place among hybrid beverages. Read 'Brewing Beer With Coffee' for tips on how to brew a coffee infused beer (just ignore the barley beer recipes).

Health Update

Thank you for the support after I included a health update in a previous newsletter. I really did not expect any emails of support, and it was greatly appreciated.

Thankfully my health has improved significantly since that newsletter. I went through two rounds of treatment that were not supposed to have any side effects. While the first round didn't, the second round was miserable.

I tested positive for both SIBO and IMO. The cutoff for SIBO is 20 ppm, and I tested at a little above that. However, the cutoff for IMO is 10 ppm, and I tested at 36! Since insurance would not authorize the preferred treatment of antibiotics, I was treated with a relatively run-of-the-mill version. That alleviated some symptoms, and I was fortunate to be retested. Surprise...still positive! For the second treatment my insurance finally authorized the preferred antibiotics, which had they not covered, would have cost almost $150 a day for 14 days.

My gastrointestinal symptoms have improved beyond drastically. I am still on a low fructan diet (glucooligosaccharides which includes gluten), and am taking a prescribed probiotic to rebuild my gut health. As before, I will emphasize that you should not be on a low FODMAP diet, or just low fructan in my case, without supervision. It has been alarming to me to see more and more doctors, dieticians and websites recommend this diet with absolutely no oversight. I would recommend a Monash University Certified Dietician, which is what I do.

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