I just got back from an awesome, week long vacation which, if you have been watching the blog, is the reason why there have been no posts lately.  The first thing I noticed in our giant pile of mail when we returned home this afternoon was that I finally received my first issue of Zymurgy [...]

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 [...]