We picked up this beer from Great Divide Brewing Company last weekend because we were intrigued by the idea of using rice as one of the primary grains during brewing. Ok, well first we picked it up be...
A few weeks ago we were really fascinated by an article in Slate about hard cider, the "true" drink of early Americans. See, in those days, water wasn't safe to drink, and wine and beer weren't very c...
Can you tell whether this photo is of a porter or a stout? We can't! These are both dark beers with a similar range of malty, roasted, and bittersweet flavors. They also both have a reputation for bei...
After mentioning this milk stout from Left Hand Brewing Company in last week's round-up of favorite fall beers, we couldn't resist picking up a few bottles to have right away. So creamy and sweet you'...
Whether you're coming in from raking leaves or picking apples at your local farm, it's nice to have a good beer in your fridge to look forward to! This time of year, we want beers that are complex, pl...
Barrel-aged beers seem to be popping up all over the place these days! For the uninitiated, these are beers that get a special vacation inside wood barrels, where they spend time fermenting and pick u...
The day has finally arrived! Our homemade beer has been brewed, fermented, and bottled. We've survived two weeks of anxious anticipation without a single bottle exploding. A few days ago, we put a c...
We've brewed the beer, let it ferment, and now we're finally ready to get it into bottles. We're so close to having homebrew we can almost taste it! And in fact, we did sneak a little taste - for pu...
Skunked beer is the bogey man of the beer world. New beer drinkers are told to never ever let refrigerated beer get warm - and definitely don't cool it again! - or suffer off-putting and skunky flavor...
A week after brewing our first batch of beer, it was time to transfer it from the primary fermentation bucket into a clean carboy. We've never actually siphoned anything before, so this was quite an...
One of the first heralds of fall seems to be the arrival of Octoberfest seasonal beers! These lagers tend to have lots of warm malt flavors to help us transition into cooler weather and shorter days. ...
This past weekend, we got out all our shiny new beer brewing equipment and went to work. In this first phase, we boiled the wort, added the yeast, and got our very first batch of beer fermenting hap...
Or is it that we love to hate them? In either case, in honor of all the students heading back to campus this week, we thought we'd pay homage to the pop-top beers and cheap tall boys that we called ou...
We are absolutely giddy at the prospect of brewing our own beer. It's something that we've wanted to do for quite some time, and this weekend we finally took the plunge! Want to join us? Here's the ...
A few of you recommended this beer in our round-up of favorite summer beers a few weeks back. With its promise of honey and orange, Honey Moon Summer Ale definitely sounded like the perfect companion ...
Cracking open an icy cold beer on a hot afternoon is as much a part of summer as cook outs and frisbee. Or is it? As refreshing as a cold beer can be, we recently learned that we might be doing some o...
Mention Irish beer on this side of the pond and most of us will automatically think of dark stouts like Guinness. But the country has a long tradition with another, very different kind of beer as well...
We have a particular reason for craving non-alcoholic beer right now, and this has emerged as a recent favorite......
Ok, we've talked about malts and we've talked about hops, both of which are crucial ingredients for beer brewing. What's left? Yeast! It's thanks to this feisty sugar-hungry microorganism that beer br...
Grab glass, pour beer, enjoy: that's all it takes to enjoy a cold brew, right? Well, it turns out there's a little more to it, and Adam Jadhav of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch is ready to give us a less...
An ice-cold beer is just about the most perfect accompaniment to a grilled hamburger and a side of coleslaw that we can think of! Here are a few of the beers we'll be bringing to our picnics and barbe...
Koozies get a bad rap of being nothing more than foam billboards for catchy sayings about beer, babes, and football. Well, we love them and have an impressive collection. Some are downright classy, to...
So you know we've been getting into beer recently, and we've even started using it more in our actual cooking. We'd also like to start getting a better handle on how to go about pairing the beers we l...
We've asked you how you like your ice cream floats, and we've confessed our own love for beer floats. And now we've found perhaps the perfect beer for a thick, rich, chocolatey beer float; it's nearly...
Along with water, hops, and yeast, malt is the other key ingredient for making beer. Shorthand for malted barley, malts are integral to fermentation and are also responsible for many of those deliciou...
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