Can you tell the difference??

Below are two beers.  Both appear to be microbrews; one an India Pale Ale the other a Hopped Red Ale.  Can you tell the difference?

The secret behind the Hopped Red Ale is that Brian brewed and labeled the Hopped Red Ale!

Home brewing is a fun way to produce the beer flavor profiles that you enjoy.  The Huffington Post even listed Home Brewing as one of the 7 DYI Drinking projects.  Home brewing is a safe process.  The likelihood of making “bad beer” is low.  As long as you keep your apparatus sterile, your beer should turn out fine.  Also, the conditions in your fermenter make it difficult for microbes to survive; the pH and alcohol content create a hostile environment for microorganisms, so you will not get food poisoning!

In the 70’s many people turned to home brewing because the lack of variety, and today, you can find microbrews and craft beers at your local liquor or supermarket.  Just examine the labels; the big three beer companies have moved in on the craft beer market, so though it can look like a craft beer, it could be in Budweiser in disguise!