Since 2008 my friend Alex and I have been brewing dark funky saisons. Each year we come up with a new concept, usually involving dried fruit...

What started as an annual tradition in 2007 is coming up on its tenth anniversary. That's right, Alex and I have been brewing dark saiso...

Having finally brewed Dark Saison #8 (with date and pomegranate molasses – recipe post to follow) it seemed appropriate to post tasting note...

Hard to believe Alex and I are already talking about our eighth annual dark/funky saison! The bottle I’m drinking tonight is from batch #6 (...

I'm not a big fan of seasonal beers. Why isn't an Oktoberfest appropriate to drink in November (or October for that matter)? Sometim...

Quince is a close relative of apples and pears. All three are in the Rosaceae family, but unlike the other two quince are almost never eaten...

Another year, another batch of funky dark saison, our sixth so far! For this iteration Alex and I decided to go with our lowest OG to date, ...

With the second test batch for Modern Times Lomaland saison bubbling away next to a radiator and on a heating pad (it is similar to the fi...

Alex and I have been brewing variations on funky dark saison each fall for the last five years. The recipes are never the same, and for the ...

For the third beer in our series of dark-funky-fall saisons , Alex and I created this earthy fig and buckwheat honey permeated batch late i...

I like the idea of seasonal beers that are always similar, but never the same. For the last four falls a few friends and I have brewed dark ...

The brew day for our fourth annual Funky Dark Saison is right around the corner and I'll be blending and bottling the third batch this ...

After posting the recipe for the dark saison we brewed a few weeks ago it seemed like it was about time I posted a first tasting of the dar...

When most people think about saison they are imagining Saison Dupont (pale, moderate gravity, relatively hoppy, peppery yeast) while in fac...

Last fall I got together with my friends Noah and Alex at Noah's place to brew a big, dark saison seasoned with blackened raisins, rosem...

I have only been moderately happy with the “clean” version of the Dark Orange Rosemary Saison that Alex, Noah and I brewed last October. I...

Saturday my friend Alex came over to lend a hand while I was brewing a sour honey wheat. While he was here he dropped off a couple bottles f...

Brew days on someone else's system are always fun. I met Noah and Alex at a NOVA HomeBrew club meeting a few weeks back when I went to...