This month’s Fermentation Friday topic (hosted by Ted’s Homebrew Journal) is “Brewday Joy & Stress”: a. What part of the your brewday brings you the most JOY? b. What part particularly brings out a good deal of STRESS? Fortunately, our brewday involves a heck of a lot more joy than stress! Especially now that we’ve [...]

I just got back from my trip to Orlando, Florida Thursday night. It was not a particularly exciting trip; I was there for work, and it rained the whole time anyway. But one thing did make the trip 100% worth it — I got to visit Orlando Brewing, Florida’s certified organic, Reinheitsgebot-following brewery. I started [...]

Warm, blissful, Memorial Day Weekend is coming up, which means summer is almost here! If you’re looking for beer to serve at your Memorial Day BBQ, you’ve come to the right place. Today I’m going to talk about some of the hoppier beer styles! Pale Ale American pale ales are light to medium amber in [...]

My friend Derek, of Best Food Blog Ever fame, recently announced that he would be hosting the Best Food Blog Ever Gnocchi Challenge. I love gnocchi, so I am very excited to participate!  Here’s what Derek is looking for: The rules, much like gnocchi, are simple: over the next two weeks, develop a gnocchi recipe [...]

Hey, I have a store now! Cool! I created a storefront for brew.cook.pair.joy through Amazon.com. Now you can purchase some of my favorite books about beer, food, homebrewing, and cooking, as well as some sweet cookware, right here through my blog! Just click the “Store” link at the top of my blog and you’ll go [...]

I am very excited to introduce the newly redesigned brew.cook.pair.joy! Welcome! My old site on Blogger treated me well for nearly a year, but I found that I was ready to move on to bigger and better things! So I registered a URL, downloaded WordPress, and created this brand new design! (And I’ve enjoyed it [...]

This month’s Session topic (hosted by Beer at Joe’s) is “Beyond the Black & Tan”: What’s your favorite beer cocktail? Find a recipe for that or a new one, try it, and tell us why you did or didn’t like it–even if you think beer cocktails are nothing but a good way to waste a [...]