The brewing will be underway in just a few short hours at Joel’s humble abode. This weekend I picked up the making for an English bitter. See, about 6 weeks ago, I added the wrong grains to a batch of IPA (added some Vienna and Cara-pils instead of 20L Crystal), and ended up [...]

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Figure A. Max Douglass downing a German something-or-other at Boscos in Nashville. I didn’t really pay attention to his beer because it tasted… non-exceptional.
The roads were actually icy as Max and I ventured out to test Nashville’s craft brewing scene. Boscos generally has a bunch of “seasonal” beers on tap, which means there’s always something [...]

You Are Guinness

You know beer well, and you’ll only drink the best beers in the world.
Watered down beers disgust you, as do the people who drink them.
When you drink, you tend to become a bit of a know it all - especially about subjects you don’t know well.
But your friends tolerate your drunken ways, because [...]

Jim at bostonbeerman.com has been writing some excellent haikus (as well as a highly entertaining blog). I thought I’d drop some knowledge on you. Here are two of my favorites:
Budweiser is crap
You are paying for their ads,
Water, rice, and corn.
Saint Arnold was right
Said to drink beer not water
Show me to his church!
Like Jim, I’m going [...]

From an article sent in by a friend of MNB:
“Luther’s wife Catherine was a skilled brewer and his love letters to her when they were apart lamented his inability to drink her beer.”

The entire article outlines Mars Hills Church’s stance on alcohol. I happen to agree with it. The article is friggin‘ sweet, so make [...]

Just cracked the first of the latest batch of oatmeal stout, and it was a pleasant surprise. Our first attempt tasted like an aggressively hopped half-stout half-brown ale, so the number one priority was just nailing the style. This was much better - the hops were much more appropriate for a stout, and [...]