Brett is pretty popular these days, turning up in all sorts of beers. Whether that’s a good thing may depend on your tastes, but although the culprit can be considered an enemy to the brewery, Brett is also a brewer’s best friend. Short for Brettanomyces, “Brett” is a type of yeast that can be used […]
Good Reasons To Drink Bad Beer
Before I try to convince you to drink things you may find repulsive, we need to define the term “bad beer”. For the sake of this post, bad beer is defined as a massively produced beer like Bud, Miller, or Coors that craft beer drinkers often turn their nose up at.* Now that we’ve nailed […]
Gluten – The Soul of Malt
If malt is the soul of beer, then gluten is the soul of malt. It provides elasticity to bread dough, and a fluffy chewiness when baked. It gives beer a texture of fullness and a pillowy foam. Without gluten, bread is flat and beer is thin. A world without gluten is deflated and found […]
Beers Worth Celebrating
The holidays are an excellent excuse to get holly jolly with friends and loved ones. As much as I love a good reason to raise a glass full of the frothy stuff, there are some beers that give cause for a holiday all their own. Some of these are seasonally appropriate, and some of these […]
Cooking With Beer: Brown Ale-Brined Turkey
There’s nothing like a great roasted turkey during the Holidays! Food is what I look forward to most this time of year. Food…and beer! I’ve recently been trying my hand at cooking with beer. So when I saw this recipe for a brown ale-brined turkey in my copy of The Craft Beer Cookbook, I knew […]
Gateway Styles for the Craft Beer-Curious
Developing a fondness for craft beer doesn’t happen overnight. Like many good things in life, beer is an acquired taste. I explored this concept in an earlier blog post, Beer; An Acquired Taste. If you want to know why developing a taste for something might be worth the effort, give it a read. For those […]