Archive for January, 2010

Homebrewing and the Craft Beer Lover

Not surprisingly, many craft beer lovers are also homebrewers, and I am no exception. Conversely, nearly every home brewer is a craft beer lover… or else why would they do it? The logical progression is to go from being a lover of beer to being a brewer of beer as well. After all, why would [...]

Beer School: The Hop

Okay kids, grab your taste buds and your Walt Whitman. Carpe Diem!

As you have been learning in our educational series, there are four primary ingredients to beer: Water, Barley, Yeast, and Hops. It is my pleasure – and honor – to talk to you about my favorite ingredient: the hop.

Back to Simple and Boring

Every day on the road I see the same billboard.   “The World’s Lightest Beer”.  As if that is something to be proud of.   Joe McPhee discussed the one-upsmanship going on in the beer world (lightest beer notwithstanding) such as highest ABV (which has now reached ridiculous levels), most expensive (for the record, I [...]