Getting into beer and homebrewing has allowed me to meet some pretty interesting people — homebrewers in particular are relatively strange folk for the most part. Dedicated to their craft, they embody a lot of the principles and attitudes I admire in people in general, and I’ve seen evidence of excellent homebrewers who are also [...]
I’ve been a long time gone from the blog but with this inaugural springtime post I hope to hop back on the wagon. We jammed a gig last night and I brought some of my first beer of spring, a Belgian IPA, which has been bumming me out as it seems to have “picked up [...]
At the end of August I brewed a “Belgian Pale Ale,” which I called a “Sour IPA” at the time because I didn’t have anything else to call it. Since then, I’ve tried most of the easily obtainable examples of commercial beers which pair Belgian Yeast with big doses of American or Noble hops, [...]
Winter Beers aren’t really my favorite category — Winter Warmers, Christmas Beers, whatever you call them, they can be overspiced, cloying, and just plain weird when you get the wrong combination of ingredients together. Unfortunately for me, my birthday falls in the heart of Christmas Beer season, and since birthdays are the time when you [...]
Welcome back to Brew Logs, where I keep track of my experiments in homebrewing. Even though I brewed my third all-grain batch last Saturday, there were lot of firsts — first really high gravity ale (I was aiming for at least OG 1.1), first solo brew (none of the dudes could make it), and my [...]
This bottle of goodness travelled all the way from southern Belgium, where it is brewed by one of the only Trappist Breweries in the world. Rochefort makes three Ales — the 6, the 8, and the 10. I recently purchased a 10 at New Beer in Manhattan and aside from having sampled a [...]
The internet can teach you a lot these days. Like the fact that Picobrouwerij Alvinne, which roughly translates to “micro micro micro” brewery Alvinne, actually has a website (I think, at least, there’s a lot of information here – alvinne.be/ – if you can read Flemish), and that Wikipedia Entry (Picobrouwerij Alvinne) on said [...]
