Tag: craft beer

Brewers’ Boot Camp

Interested in becoming a brewer? Learn the ins and outs of brewing beer! We’ll be brewing on the 30 barrel system and the Spike Brewing Pilot System. Highlights – Full Day of brewing education – Pilot System & Commercial System – Mill In, Dough In, Mash Rest, Vorlauf, Sparge, Boil, Muck Out, Whirlpool, Knockout/Pitch, Cleanup […]

Ode to Sahti

Sahti was traditionally brewed in the villages of Finland as a farm house ale with ingredients that were readily available. It was brewed with grains and pine that were grown near the villages and fermented with, what was understood as, “magic” or wild yeast. We tweaked this traditional style by using modern brewing equipment, grain […]

Acid Wit: Sour Beer and the Flanders Red vs. Flanders Brown

If you’re like me, you’ve “loved sours!” for years, while stuck within your severely scanty, sour social circle. You cling to your two close, sour friends, Monk and Duchesse, watching from afar the trending, sour-beer, love fest . . .

Art and Bombers: the Creativity of Fan Recipe Submissions, Post #1

This month’s voting round brings some doozies, with ABV up to here. If you could see me, I’m pointing at my Adam’s apple. I should be pointing at my gaping, watering mouth as I gawk at all these gaudy-delicious, high-gravity beer recipes . . .

Spy vs. Spy: IPA vs. Black IPA

Visually of course there’s no mistaking one for the other, the one being, well, black. But you’ll hear even knowledgeable people say they’re the same, other than the color. Blindfold many a craft beer drinker and have them taste an IBA, and very few will guess it’s not an IPA. So then how come . . .

Don Durio Gets Durianed!

Here’s how we made it happen… Durian fruit is a rather large spiky fruit that contains small pieces of yellow custard like flesh surrounding rather large seeds the shape and color of unshelled Brazil nuts. In order to get at those unique and tasty morsels (sometimes called “smelly” by the uncultured or unsophisticated) we need […]