This month’s Fermentation Friday topic (hosted by HomeBrewBeer.net) is “Embrace Your Spring Fever”: How will you grow or change as a homebrewer this Spring? How will you embrace your Spring fever and channel it toward your homebrewing endeavors? Ahhh, spring… I’m not sure if I’ve ever expressed my hatred for winter in my blog. The [...]

Few things are as fresh, delicious, and beautifully simple as pesto. Pesto makes everything better. Use it on top of chicken, spread it on a sandwich, serve it with cheese and crackers, mix it into bread dough, thin it out and use it as a sauce, use it in a filling for raviolis or lasagna, [...]

The final “Meet the Brewer” event we attended during Philly Beer Week was on Saturday at Iron Hill Brewery in Phoenixville. Iron Hill currently has seven locations, with more on the way. Tim and I were first introduced to this brewery at the original Iron Hill in Newark, DE. It’s located right on Main Street [...]

We attended yet another “Meet the Brewer” event at TJ’s last night, this time featuring Tröegs, one of my favorite breweries! A special surprise to us was the firkin of Flying Mouflon that Tröegs had brought. Flying Mouflon is sort of like a barleywine-ized Nugget Nectar. Higher gravity, more hops, specialty grains tweaked. The end [...]

For our second “Meet the Brewer” event of Philly Beer Week, we went to TJ’s in Paoli. Monday’s event featured Brewery Ommegang. On tap, was Ommegang’s Three Philosophers, “Obamagang,” Abbey Ale, and Chocolate Indulgence, as well as Duvel Green. On hand, was brewer Wes Nick. I started off with “Obamagang,” which was brewed especially for [...]

This week marks the glorious Philly Beer Week 2009. All through Philly and the surrounding suburbs, you can find yourself at any of about 700 events at over 100 different breweries, brewpubs, beer bars, and the like. Yowza! We’re only attending a handful of the events (damn you, full-time job!), so this will just be [...]

This month’s Session topic (hosted by The Beer Nut) is “Love Lager”: For millions of people the word “beer” denotes a cold, fizzy, yellow drink — one which is rarely spoken of among those for whom beer is a hobby or, indeed, a way of life. So for this Session, let’s get back to basics [...]