I'm suspicious of any "maple" beer that smells more like maple syrup than actual maple syrup does. The aromatics in real maple...

Scott and I are still pushing forward towards opening Sapwood Cellars; here's a post with our January progress . In February we've s...

When we open sometime this summer,  Sapwood Cellars ' clean beer program will be focused on hops... but don't mistake that to mean...

A torch passing of sorts. With the bottles of my 2007 batch of Courage Russian Imperial Stout clone running out I rebrewed the recipe (wit...

I really enjoy beers brewed with local ingredients, but local grains and hops have never been at the top of that list. In both cases local u...

When it comes to adding fruit to sour beer I've long advocated waiting, both on the blog (and in American Sour Beers ). This serves two ...