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I’m a wee bit late in posting this, but the Thirsty Monk is hosting a Dogfish Head Ancient Ales Week that started tonight. This week will feature four of Dogfish Head’s historical ales, three of which have never been on tap in Asheville before. The f… [...]
This is the first of (hopefully) several blog posts covering my time in Wellington over the last week at BrewNZ and Beervana.I volunteered to assist with the stewarding at the BrewNZ beer awards. These are the main annual beer awards in New Zealand and… [...]
Business has been busy so beer blog updates have been slow in recent months but thanks to my travels I managed to sample some new Asian brews.Flying God awful economy somewhere over southern China the air stewardess asked the usual question (what would… [...]
Continuing to thin out or eliminate some old library stocks, reflecting on when I knew what the hell I was doing, when I didn’t, what works, what doesn’t, why, that sort of thing:Multi-Grain Saison, brewed 6/16/06: This has been an interesting beer. … [...]
Out of necessity, I’ve set up a ECHO discussion forum 2.0! Finally got in touch with the host company and evidently there was a problem with the admin permissions, which made the server think the forum was inactive, and hence, deleted. I’ve since figur… [...]
Is this normal? Lowered expectation warning: The following is a complete cop out.I don’t know if it’s the weird muggy heat or the headache that’s accompanying it or what, but despite digging as deeply into my smartass as possible, this month’s Fermenta… [...]
Ever wanted to build a nice yeast bank at home but don’t want to keep a ton of mason jars in the old fridge. You can get 30 performs (just like what white labs uses) for about 30 bucks. Seems like a good deal to me. Preform Plastic Test Tubes &… [...]
I’ve been brewing a good amount this summer, enough that I’ve actually managed to fall behind by a few batches, so I’m going to catch up here with two new styles. I have a lot of beer currently fermenting in the basement, at room temperature (between 70 and 80 degrees), including a pale Sour Ale [...] [...]
Parti-Gyle brewing is an archaic manner of brewing wherein the mash is drawn off used for one strength of beer and the remaining grains are re-mashed. There is no sparge to speak of. The process can be repeated three or more times to produce three or f… [...]
Since our 100th episode is up next, we thought we would dip in to our bag of awesome and release our long-awaited interview with Sam Calagione, the founder of Dogfish Head. Filmed during Philly Beer Week 2009, Sam is the man Jim Koch told us – on ca… [...]
Thanks to Matt over at World of Brews for hosting this months Fermentation Friday. His topic this month, “Breaking Away From the Norm”. “Most home brewers I know and read about use the standard 2 row base malt and the 3 big C’s for the hops… [...]
Founded by Italian monks in the year 1070, the Orval monastary in Belgium has probably produced beer their entire history. For the past several hundred years, the Orval monastary made their money making and selling cheese and bread. The modern brewe… [...]
The CNN.com travel section is trying to send outsiders into North Carolina to drink beer. You might want to stock your beer fridges now! [...]
Diedrich Konig founded the Jever brewery, or the “Friesisches Brauhaus zu Jever” over 160 years ago, in 1848. Fast forward to 2009, and they are perhaps the most modern brewery on the planet. The Jever pilsner has extra hops added to it to increase … [...]
The Lake, of course, is Lake Tahoe.The Brewery is the rather pretentiously named Brewery at Lake Tahoe. That’s pretentious because it’s not the only brewery at Lake Tahoe. But it does claim to be the first — or at least the first in the modern era. So… [...]
When I think of the heartland, I think of places where the nightlife is dull and quiet. Where people go to bed early and get up at dawn. Where they roll up the sidewalks about 9 p.m.I certainly DON’T think of Times Square in New York City. But that’s o… [...]
I guess the news about Monks bar in Stockholm to be serving 453 different beers from 79 US-breweries from Sept 1th is some kind of record (must be, at least in a bar). The complete list is specified below and from the list its surely some interesting … [...]
The Hitachino Nest line of beers from the Kiuchi Brewery in Japan has yet to disapoint either of us and the Hitachino XH, an American style Strong Ale (XH stands for “Xtra High”) keeps up the reputation. Matured in “shochu” casks, a distilled alcoho… [...]
So, killing some time online tonight, I stop by cracked.com to read about 6 dream jobs that would actually suck, as anyone would do. Job #5 is Brewmaster, a post I’m known to aspire to. Reading more, I stop and stare at the last picture in that section. I have that strainer. That pot looks [...] [...]
Okay so it is late August and still blazing hot here in Houston. And we all wish that it could cool down just a little bit, say down into the low 90′s! However, one of the first signs of the impending fall season (other than pre-season football!!!) h… [...]
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Episode 122 – Dark Horse Amber Ale
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Beer Run Blog 2011-07-07 04:05:00
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Help! We screwed up!
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Five Top Five Lists for 2011
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New Years Eve at Dario’s
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