I hope that people get something from my talks at homebrew festivals around the world, because I certainly benefit from the arrangement!  My...

It is interesting to drink two glasses of beer side-by-side made from wort separated 18 months ago ( recipe post ). In addition to the recip...

Maple imperial stouts... so hot right now. Like coconut  last year, mole  a few years ago, and whiskey-barrel-aged before that (not that an...

It’s been more than two years since my series of four barrel-aged strong/dark beers ( Wheat Trippelbock , Rye Stout , Vanilla/Cinnamon Porte...

Rye is a weird grain. It has a flavor that some people call "spicy" but I've never thought it made a beer taste like it had be...

Recipes and ingredients are important, but brewing the best beer requires control over your process. You might get lucky once, but consisten...

DC Homebrewers  (now in its third year) quickly established a great meeting format, but we are still lacking activities outside of our month...

It has been a year and a half since I last posted thoughts on my attempt to copy Hair of the Dog's Adam .  It never carbonated (one of ...

A Baltic porter with some smoked malt and flaked rye was the last in my series of four beers with Wyeast's Kolsch strain. I drew inspir...

With a sizable backlog of cellared beers to sample, I thought I'd knock another one off the list by revisiting my Rauch Doppelsticke  (l...

After it was pointed out that De Molen is Dutch (and thus not Scandinavian ) I've decided to just call this beer what it is, a smoked-s...

After Nathan and I brewed East End's recipe for Kvass , we decided to crank out a couple more kvasses with recipes of our own design. T...

In the great ether of the Internet I do a lot of talking about homebrewing, between posts and comments on this blog, emails, forums, Twitter...

Lagers take a bit more time to turn around that ales, but at a low gravity and with some chocolate rye and German Beechwood smoked malt my S...

Back in February I managed to convince  dozen or so other members of DC Homebrewers to come over to my house to brew an anniversary beer d...

Inspired by my favorite pale session smoked beer ( Helles Schlenkerla Lager ) and a sample of Denison's Dunkle I decided to brew a smoke...

There is something really wonderful about joining an organization right when it is starting up.  I've been attending meetings of the DC ...