What a great start to my Year of Beer.  I started it on my birthday which was August 30th so today is the first day of my second month and I thought it would be appropriate to give you a quick summary of what has gone on so far.
First, I will say I am amazed [...]

A few weeks back I wrote a post about the Microbrew Beer of the Month club that I had joined.  I have been waiting patiently (or at least I have been trying to wait patiently) for my first shipment to arrive and it came today.  I had it shipped to my work since it required [...]

Northern Brewer, a popular online and brick and mortar home brew store is offering a 10% off sale on all spiced beer kits this week only.  They have 8 kits available in this sale.  Most are all-grain kits but there are 2 kits that call for malt extract.  Check out the details at Spiced Beer [...]

Jim Koch, the founder and brewer of Samuel Adams, started out as a home brewer himself.  He has always been a vocal supporter and great champion of the home brew hobby.    Samuel Adams holds a contest every year called Longshot, where they allow home brewers all over the country to submit their beer and [...]

Some of my favorite beers are stouts and I would definitely rank that style of beer up towards the top of my list.  Guinness is a stout and it’s the reason why my first batch of homebrew was an Irish Stout.
Stouts are very dark and usually black or pretty close to it.  They are ale’s [...]

The judging has concluded and the winners of the 2009 Great American Beer Festival have been chosen and posted online.  There were 495 breweries entered into this years competition and they entered an impressive 3308 beers.  With 132 judges, that’s an average of 25 beers per judge.  Not a bad gig!
There were 78 different categories [...]