The Brew SiteGood Christmas wishes to everyone! I know I haven’t posted much here as the year’s been winding down, but that should change once we’re through the holidays. In the meantime, I’ll be offline tomorrow, and hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!
This is a fun article: Beer Highlights of 2K4. A lot of it is pretty Boston-centric, but I liked the New Beer Trends section: * American Double Style – A new genre of beer emerged this year, using the typical "bigger is better" American way of thinking, which actually worked … Continue reading
Beer Advocate has a great article on Holiday Gifts for Beer Lovers. I like the first three ideas: Growler Pack Hit your local brewpub and pick up a fresh growler (or two) of beer. Most places will also sell branded pint glasses, so grab a pair of those, and then … Continue reading
Interesting article in The Anchorage Press here about homebrewers having their recipes brewed by microbreweries. Converting a homebrew recipe to a beer for commercial production is not a matter of simply changing the proportions of ingredients. Certain things are gained and lost in the translation, and because yeast is perhaps … Continue reading
I though I’d write a bit about Samichlaus. Samichlaus is probably the ultimate Christmas beer—and has (I’ve heard) the highest alcohol content of any beer out there, to boot. At 14 percent alcohol by volume, I’d believe that. Samichlaus—which is Swiss-German for "Santa Claus"—is a dark lager brewed once a … Continue reading
Yes, it’s been a long week since I last posted. You can keep up with what’s been happening over on my other blog for all the gory details. This item isn’t necessarily about beer, but according to this article on ScientificAmerican.com, archaelogists have uncovered evidence that the Chinese were brewing … Continue reading
The perfect gift this holiday season for the home brewer: a Giant Microbes Beer Yeast plush toy! It looks just like the real thing, and it’s only $5.95 to boot. Act now!
Opened up the first bottle of my Pumpkin Ale this evening. (I would have tried it last week, on Thanksgiving, but I was too sick.) It’s quite good. It has the hint of pumpkin pie spices in the aroma—not as much as I’d like, but it’s noticeable (perhaps next time … Continue reading
Last Wednesday I spent some time with Tyler Reichert, who owns the local homebrew shop, The Home Brewer, and Silver Moon Brewing (see my previous entry here), and got a bit of tour of the new brewery/tasting room/retail store he’s opening up pretty soon. It’s very impressive though there’s still … Continue reading
I came across another couple of beer blogs today: SudsPundit and The Beer Blog. Actually, I found SudsPundit first via Technorati (linking to me here) and The Beer Blog via SudsPundit. They both look pretty good; check ’em out.