Breaking diets rules, however. Breaking the diet I’m currently on, which includes no beer drinking whatsoever, is going to be EPIC. I’ve been squirreling away bottles here and there for that fateful day when I finally reach my weight goal. So far, …
This weekend I had the opportunity to splurge and purchase some awesome beer. Splurge may actually be an understatement because the average Joe Schmoe would have probably accumulated around 300 cans of beer for what I spent on relatively few bottles….
It’s been so long since I’ve been able to have a beer and write a review! I’ve had some type of incredible allergies this late summer, and I’ve been on medication for a month I think! I’ve really been looking forward …
Photo by SporkistWisdom Cream Ale Clone (5 gallons, extract) OG = 1.053 FG = 1.014 IBUs = 14–16 ABV = 5.1% Ingredients :6.0 lbs. Coopers Light dry malt extract 4.0 AAU Tettnanger hops (bittering) (0.9 oz. of 4.5% alpha acid) 7.4 AAU Saaz ho…
At our house, bacon is more than just a main dish for Sunday breakfast … it’s a condiment, a flavor enhancer, a cooking partner, and yes, a way of life. Fact is, there are few food situations that aren’t improved by the addition of …
Hey there, been a little quiet around these parts the past two weeks, I acknowledge. Not out there in the real world, let me tell ya. Why, just the other day I had to finally up & admit that I still had a Christmas 2007 beer left on the shelves th…
My beer fridge has been way too full for a long time due to the fact that I like to buy beer faster than I can drink it. So with my friend The Baltimore Beer Guy visiting from Maryland as we prepared to go to the USC/Ohio State game the next day I ga…
One of my favorite beers back when I first got into microbrews was Redhook’s Double Black Stout brewed with Starbucks coffee. Ever since then, I’ve had a soft spot for the coffee infused brews. Now, thanks to the good people and distri…
Anyone who has visited the trophy wing of Chateau Smith inevitably asks the tour guide the same questions. How can someone who has been brewing beer for almost a quarter of a century have so few wins? Where do you keep the big trophies? How doe…
I think that water treatment has made the biggest impact on the quality of my beers (besides fermentation temperature control and pitching more yeast). It has the greatest impact on very pale or dark beers, which both taste much smoother now that I ad…