This month’s Fermentation Friday topic (hosted by A World of Brews) is about breaking away from the norm:
Most home brewers I know and read about use the standard 2 row base malt and the 3 big C’s for the hops and maybe a nice 1056 or 05 for the yeast. In my book that is [...]

So, this beer is really cool.
Dogfish Head based Theobroma on the chemical analysis of pottery fragments from Honduras… You know, typical Dogfish Head type stuff. Apparently, this analysis showed evidence of the earliest known alcoholic chocolate drink, circa 500-1200 BC, drank by early civilizations on special occasions.
Theobroma translates to “food of the gods,” which I’d [...]

I’ve had a number of requests for my beer bread recipe, so I decided it’s time to share! I like my beer bread moist, so the dough for this is quite sticky, but the resulting bread is soft, moist, and chewy, with the perfect crust (if I do say so myself).
You can use any kind [...]

This past Saturday, I threw a bridal shower for my future sister-in-law, Melissa.
Wait!! Don’t click away from the page yet! BEER! We brewed BEER for it! This post is about BEER and FOOD, not wedding dresses and gift registries!!

*ahem* Anyway. Melissa is beer- and food-crazed, much like myself (check out her and my brother’s blog [...]

This month’s Session topic (hosted by Beer 47) is “Beer Desserts”:
What beer desserts have you tried and liked? Disliked? What beer styles work well with dessert and which ones do not? Do you have any beer dessert recipes that you enjoyed and would like to share?
Cooking with beer is interesting, because it’s similar to pairing [...]

Now that you’ve read my last post, you know a little bit about how sour beers are created. Now let’s talk examples. Here are my reviews of two very contrasting sour ales.
Monk’s Cafe Flemish Sour Ale
Monk’s Cafe is a well-known restaurant and bar in Center City Philadelphia that’s famous for its enormous selection of [...]

No longer the elusive Belgian mystery, sour beer is beginning to make its way into mainstream American beer culture. From light, luscious tartness to pucker-inducing acidity, sour beer is a fascinating genre that is altogether different from other beer styles.
There are six subcategories of Sour Ale in the BJCP Guidelines — Berliner Weisse, Flanders Red [...]