Homebrew Club: Meeting of the Beer Minds
As much as I love drinking beer, I equally enjoy learning about the brewing process and listening to others who homebrew. I spend a fair amount of time reading online and offline and watching YouTube…
Beer Tasting Mastery: A Final Taste
I finished the final two classes of the four-week Beer Tasting Mastery online course (for a more-detailed view of the course in general, read Beer Tasting Mastery: Sharpening the Senses). And my beer-tasting and -smelling…
Beer Tasting Mastery: Sharpening the Senses
I’m halfway through a four-session Beer Tasting Mastery course. I enrolled to expand my knowledge of different flavors and aromas present in the beers I drink. I also wanted to be able to accurately and specifically…
Planting Hops, Brewing an IPA
I smelled the aroma of freshly picked hops for the first time this summer, thanks to a first-year crop of Columbus hops pulled from my dad’s garden in mid-September. The rhizomes, purchased from a local…
Homebrewing Up a Storm
I’m still a bit obsessed with homebrewing, though probably not as obsessed as some when it comes to actual brewing. I’m at the stage where I’m trying to learn all there is about the craft…