just watching the hops grow...

Hey gang. So I got around to posting a little wrap-up piece on last night's shindig at Ye Olde Toronadoe, and, as it typically happens, the post ended up having much less to do with the event in question than about a completely unrelated subject. (For those three of who have read my site before would liken this situation… Continue

Since we seem to have quite the populous kitchen-, garage-, and back yard-brewing set amongst our ranks, I thought it might be about time for us to band together into our own little mash-posse: the Aleuminati Alechemists. It's destined to be the place to steal each other's recipes, pillage each other's hops rations, and make fun of each other's goofy labels. The possibilities are nearly endless.

Going through the Philosopher's archives recently, I noticed a post that he'd written on a beer and music episode of The Session (on a month that it was hosted by one of my local brewing heroes, Tomme Arthur, as it were), and realized that as much time as I spend wheedling around on the 'net,… Continue

With the soon-to-be-legendary Sam Adams homebrew competition fast upon us, along with its phantasmagorical promise of having the winners' beers produced en masse by big Jim Koch himself, even I - I, who has never once entered a beer into a contest, joined a homebrew club, or even pitted my recipes against the rules of common decency - am debating posting a few very well-cushioned bottles off to B… Continue

Or would it be a lager? I finally got around to writing up a short post on the De Regenboog's 't Smisje BBBourgondier of which I so fortuitously came into posession recently. In a comment to Shawn's state of the unionati post, I posited that this beer also happens to summarize (boil down?) what can be so gre… Continue