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My mini brewing library has been gathering dust for 5 years now, and it’s time to send them somewhere where they will get some love. Three rules. You gotta take them all, you gotta come to me (Central Denver during work hours, Park Hill weekends and evenings), and you gotta bring me a six pack...

So what beer are you drinking while watching the Big Game this year? I was thinking that a neutral household could have a lot of fun picking beers from Denver and Seattle, as both cities have some wonderful, nationally available beers out there. Based totally off of my own memories, a better...

I'm going back to my college reunion in Sewanee in a few weeks. I am flying into Nashville, staying there for a day, and then driving down. I had planned on just stopping by J. Barleycorn by the airport on my way down to stock up on some beer for the week, but it appears that they went out of...

I love robust porter, although my one attempt early in my brewing days was a disaster (don't bottle if you don't have time to carefully sanitize every bottle). I'm ready to give it a go again, and have started looking at recipes. As with any style, the recipes go all over the place, but I am...

I'm baching it for a few weekends this month, and I am planning on doing a lot of cooking and pairing with beer (SWMBO is celiac, so the only time I can do a lot of that is when she is out of town). I own a copy of Extreme Brewing, and I was taking a look at a few of the recipes. I was wondering...

I was going to brew today, but both SWMBO and I have been struck down with some sort of stomach bug. My next chance to brew is going to be Saturday. Two questions about delaying the brew day: 1. I have 7 oz of pre-ground specialty grains in the fridge. Will they keep there until Saturday...

Does anyone else suffer from this? I just bottled a low gravity Saison yesterday afternoon. No reasons to be concerned- extract brew got down to 1.010, steady readings, five weeks in the carboy, properly measured priming sugar, no signs of infection or brett in the beer. Still, last night...

It is church auction time. Many of the members of my church put together dinner parties or other similar events, and offer a number of seats to the event at the silent auction. This year, I want to guide a beer and cheese pairing. I am thinking that we want four beers, and four cheeses. For...

If it weren’t for the damn Bud Light on the back of this glass, it might be the best pint glass ever. They were on special at Argonaut yesterday. Anyone know where I can get my hands on an official tulip glass? Go Broncos!

I used (roughly) the DeathBrewer method to brew a two-gallon all grain ordinary bitter that I am entering in a competition. I steeped at 151 for 90 minutes, and then "tea bagged" the grain bag in the sparge water for ten minutes. How do I best reflect that on the AHA/BJCP entry form mash table...

I am entering two beers, a Cream Ale and an Ordinary Bitter, into the homebrew competition at the Denver County Fair this year. This is my first competition, and I am hoping to get some good feedback. Did anyone here participate last year? If so, should I be expecting a BJCP-style score sheet...

Enough with the "They only had BMC at the Wedding Reception" threads. Have you ever actually been to a wedding where you had a great beer experience? I went to a wedding this weekend. SWMBO and the bride were friends in High School, when SWMBO hosted a German exchange student. The student and...

A friend of mine is going to a wedding in Los Angeles. He is a friend of the bride, and he wants to impress the groom, who he has described as being influential in the local food and beverage scene. Last time he was out there, the groom treated him to some hot, hard to find California beers (no...

When I started brewing four months ago, I identified my basement as the best place for my carboy. It was out of the way, and the coolest spot of the house. But at 68 degrees ambient, it just wasn't cutting it. My beers were turning out drinkable, but you could just tell that there was too much...

News clip from Yahoo.co.uk. They even have a mild on cask. I want to go to there. Not much to discuss, I know, just something to warm your heart on a Friday.

I need a yeast suggestion for a Belgian Pale Ale. The recipe is the Belgian Pale Ale recipe from Brewing Classic Styles. The OG of the recipe is 1.052. I am shooting for a FG of 1.012. The recipe originally called for either White Labs 515 Antwerp or Wyeast Schelde. From what I gather from...

In any hobby, you have enthusiasts, and you have snobs. While the line between enthusiast and snob can blur at times, I have found that one of the sure-fire ways to recognize the difference is that a regular enthusiast will admit to certain unorthodox tastes that a snob will not. So here is...

I just listened to the Sunday Session’s gluten free brewing show, which aired this weekend. Nice timing, as I am going to brew my first gluten free beer the next time I have a free Saturday. Some of what I gleaned: 1. People seem to be using a lot more honey to balance out the sorghum than...

A little over a week ago, I bought a bottle of Fuller’s 1845, mostly to play around with harvesting yeast. I decanted all but a little bit of the beer, made up about 8 ounces of wort, cooled the wort, and pitched into the bottle using a sanitized funnel. I then placed a piece of sanitized foil...

Getting ready to bottle my first batch over the weekend, assuming I can empty a few more bottles this week. I have viewed the very helpful bottling guide in the sticky section above, and I understand that I am probably trying to build a better mousetrap here, but I have an idea stuck in my head...