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The Best IPA You Haven’t Heard of Yet
I was in Arkansas last weekend. So I’m a little biased, but if you haven’t had Diamond Bear’s Presidential IPA your life is incomplete. They claim the beer is so good because Arkansas has such great water. Whatever. It’s just goood.
Half Acre Purchases a Brewhouse
It isn’t on their web site, but Half Acre put out this press release yesterday:
We at Half Acre are very excited to announce the purchase of a 15 barrel brewhouse that will be shipped over the continental divide via multiple tractor trailers to Chicago. This is a very large step that will simplify our [...]
Just a Porter
Posting has been sparse the last few weeks, I apologize. I finally brewed again on Sunday. My big brother was in town and wanted see what brewing was all about so we decided to dedicate the morning to brewing up a porter. I know, I know. It’s out of season. But it takes about 8 [...]
Kolsch Kegging
I kegged my Kolsch today after about eight weeks in the fermenter. The last five weeks or so it’s been sitting at about 40 degrees. My major concern at this point is the cloudiness. I’ve never used any clarifying agents or anything like that. And all of my beer has been just a little cloudy. [...]
Spontaneous Pale
So I brewed my first batch with the Partial Mash method I discovered at BYO. I had ordered the grain for the Strauss in the Haus Vienna Lager, what would have been my first lager as it happens. But I hadn’t planned on it taking so long for my chest freezer to be delivered. It [...]
Two Brothers’ Hop Juice
I finally got a taste. Lord almighty, the taste. It’s still hanging on … and I love it.
On Saturday my wife and I found ourselves in the neighborhood of one of three full-scale craft breweries in the Chicagoland area: Two Brothers Brewing Company. Their pale ale, The Bitter End, is widely available in local stores. [...]
Beer Wagon: 2.29.08
A special leap-day edition of the beer wagon. Is Philly really the best beer-town in America? Stephen Beaumont and Don Russell debate. I think I want to build my own stir plate, after seeing Jeff’s. 8 million barrels. That’s a lot of beer; it is also how much craft beer was produced in 2007. Joe [...]
Carnival of Beer 2.27.08
Looking for a way to survive long, harsh Chicago winters? Talk to Ted. Appellation ponders the marketing behind Miller Blonde. Who are they after any way? Miller can’t possible think the craft brew world is going to put down its Rogue Dead Guy to pick up a Miller Blonde? Can They? New reviews of [...]
Brewers Take On Distribution Racket
From the Frederick’s News-Post:
Local breweries hope a proposed law will help them sell more beer outside their bars and restaurants.
Frederick’s Barley and Hops Grill & Microbrewery, and Brewer’s Alley Restaurant and Brewery stand to benefit from the law, which would allow them to self-distribute a certain amount of beer, rather than hire a distributor.
The owners [...]
A Pilsner That Doesn’t Suck
I must admit that I am generally biased against pilsner style beer. I don’t know if its the tendency for American beer companies to add rice to the mash to lower the cost of production. Or whether its because some friends of my have an undue obsession with Stella Artois. But whenever I see the [...]
