This month’s Fermentation Friday topic (hosted by A World of Brews) is about the hilarious and always entertaining sanitation:
Like most topics in home brewing there are 100’s of different ways to clean and sanitize your equipment. I would like you to post about the process and chemicals you use to prepare your equipment. I would [...]

For those of you who’ve ever thought about dabbling in cheese-making, a great place to start is with ricotta cheese. You don’t need any special ingredients or equipment, and it takes very little time.
There are only three ingredients: milk, salt, and lemon juice. You can use whole or 2% milk, but I wouldn’t [...]

I’m gonna start sounding like a Victory spokesperson, but I can’t help it, they just continue to be awesome.
Victory has recently started a monthly event called “Follow the Liter.” Here’s the description from their website:
Enjoy a bit of Bavaria at Victory Brewing Company. Celebrate with $5 mas liters of Festbier and Wiesen and feast [...]

This past Sunday was Victory’s 6th Annual Chili Challenge. Various Victory employees made 5-gallon vats of their own chili recipes, to be reviewed by a panel of judges, as well as by the general public (Read: free chili!). We were so there.
The moment Tim and I arrived, we realized that this event was no secret. [...]

Belgian candi sugar is commonly used to brew high alcohol beers with a light body. It allows brewers to reach a high original gravity without having to add more malt, thereby adding more body.
Candi sugar is readily available to homebrewers, and is super convenient for brewing high-gravity Belgian style beers. Only problem is, [...]

Last weekend, Tim and I checked out Earth Bread + Brewery in the Mt. Airy neighborhood of Philly. Definitely an interesting place!
The setup is pretty neat, though it’s a tiny bit cramped for the crowd they draw. That’s actually an understatement. It was uncomfortably crowded in there. Granted, we were there [...]

I love Super Bowl Sunday. Not because of the “big game,” I couldn’t care less about football. And it’s certainly not because of the commercials. I just love making Super Bowl food. There’s something about all that spicy, comforting goodness that I find awesome.
I made fresh guacamole this morning with cilantro, lime, and jalapeño. [...]