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  • ICU Measurements…Advice From Hill Farmstead

    If you’ve been around beer for more than 5 seconds you are familiar with the scales for measuring hop bitterness units. The most common one in the USA being IBUs. With many new hops that have big citrus characteristics coming on the market pairing them or subbing with larger amounts of fruit brewers are creating…

  • The Sour Dark Brown Ménage

    Last week I was able to squeak in a brew session and finally get to use 2 yeasts that I have been really excited about: CMY1 and ECY02. The CMY1 is Chad Yakobson of Crooked Stave’s Brett strain. The ECY02 is East Coast Yeast Flemish Ale which I picked up in late 2011. Also used on…

  • Brad Clark of Jackie O’s Pub and Brewery Q & A + Recipe

    One of the great things about writing this blog is getting the chance to talk candidly  with brewers I respect. Having brewed a good number of sour/wild beers myself (even on my smaller scale) I know how labor intensive and how much patience you need to have as the beer and yeast go through their…

  • Wax on…Wax Off… Waxing it!

    A few months ago I was thinking about the packaging of my beers and what I should start doing to take that part of brewing to the next level. I love how caged and corked bottles look. There is just such an elegance to unwinding the cage and popping the cork on a good sour…

  • DEXTER MORGAN’S FUNKY SIDE: The Blood Orange Beer Journey

    If you’ve read a few of my articles here then it’s obvious I’m pretty loyal to dramatic cable TV shows: Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, and yes…. Dexter.  During the open of Dexter there is a scene where he is cutting and juicing some Moro oranges, known by most as “Blood Oranges”. I never ate a…