This past weekend I brewed my first all grain batch.  It was a small batch, just one gallon, but it was a lot of fun.  I have done three extract brews but really wanted to try an all grain batch.   I don’t have a lot of extra money to put into more home brew equipment [...]

A few months back we wrote about a new home brew store in Brooklyn New York called Brooklyn Brew Shop.  They sell primarily at local flea markets and online.  Their specialty is small 1 gallon kits perfect for people living in a small apartment in New York City.  They are all grain kits that you [...]

A friend of mine bought a case of this beer over the weekend and since he knew I was doing my Year of Beer he brought me a bottle.  I had never heard of Fort Collins Brewery but that shouldn’t be a reflection of the the brewery, there is a lot about beer that I [...]

This is another beer that my wife bought me when she was in New York.  It’s from a Vermont brewery called Long Trail Brewing Company.  This beer is a coffee stout and it’s from their Brewmaster series.  The coffee they used when they brewed it was from Vermont Coffee Company so you are truly getting [...]

My wife travels a lot for work and when she goes away, she has been stopping at liquor/beer/grocery stores and picking up random beers she thinks I might want to try.  This was one of those beers.  It’s from Southern Tier Brewing Company based in Lakewood New York.   This beer is apparently part of their [...]

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 [...]