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Month: January 2012

  • Upland Brewing’s Gilgamesh: The Epic Sour Ale

    Continuing our adventure into the realm of sour ale brewing, we designed a recipe to create an Upland version of a traditional Flanders Red. Melding flaked maize into a turbid mash and adding Belgian candi sugar during a long kettle boil, we prepared this ale for epic proportions. We then incorporated wild yeasts and other…

  • Cantillon Amphoras (AKA when Jean experiments we all win)

    It’s not very often that we see old meeting older to create something new. Today was one of those days when Jean Van Roy of Cantillon let the world know about a unique batch of Lambic he is fermenting. In the official message below he tells us why it’s unique and how the idea came about, but…

  • Chad Yakobson of Crooked Stave Q & A

    One of the great things about craft beer is most brewers will take a moment to talk about their products or just talk about brewing in general with people. You have those great people… then you get a chance to speak with Crooked Stave owner Chad Yakobson who takes all that a step further. You…

  • Big Brother wants to limit sales of high-alc beer

    My fellow friends in Tennessee please click this link to read about the newest piece of legislation aimed at limiting our beer choices.  Click here to read the summary on SB 2167 Click here to read the summary on HB 2783 You can make a difference by contacting your legislator via this link.

  • Think Spring! Think Saison!

    I am not a fan of cold weather (I honestly think I could sip Berliner Weisse at the beach everyday).  So my latest brew session I was thinking Springtime for 2 reasons: I needed something dry/crisp on tap to enjoy outside when the weather warms up and I needed to brew something wild or funky…