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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Now that the weather is getting warmer, we're all about the pale ales! The crisp, clean flavors of these beers are perfect for hot afternoons next to the grill. What pale ales are you enjoying right n...
Beer buffs will often describe the flavor of a particular beer by saying things like "It's hoppy," or "Not a lot of hops." Ever wonder what the heck these guys are talking about? Read on......
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