There is little need to doubt what I think the best possible use for the hop is.  There are good beers that don’t use hops, but in my mind, it is an indispensable product for the beer making industry in general.  So, my number one use for the hop is simply good beer.  We’ve mentioned [...]

An account of home brewing beer for a buddy’s wedding

This beer is a great illustration of a Hefeweizen

We don’t normally write about it a ton on this website, but Nate and I both homebrew.  Lately, I’ve been branching out and trying some new and unique stuff.  Most recently, I did a sour mash for 26 hours in order to make a sour wheat-rye beer.  Not only has this given me the opportunity [...]

This baby was raring to go.  I was warned where I purchased this beer to open it when it was very well chilled. In fact, I was told that it might still be pretty active even if I did that.  Boy was Kari right.  Have you ever had a cork that you really had to [...]

Finally embracing a facet of pop social networking, Twitter (@THFBeer_Nate), has opened my eyes to themes, trends, and beer buzzwords like never before.  I have always been critical of social networking sites, so it took me a while to gather the gumption to sign up for an account.  I bring this up, because I never [...]

This week we will be drinking a Bavarian bombshell.  I’ve always liked and appreciated Ayinger’s beers.  We have already reviewed one of their beers on the site, which I believe is a classic.  At any rate, this Bavarian wheat beer has scored very highly and is one of my favorite wheat beers.  We hope that [...]

The bottom line is, when you drink a beer you consume calories. If your beer doesn’t use this energy, the surplus has to go somewhere, and that place is your (and my!) gut

As Mike recently wrote, beer geeks and beer dabblers alike can get wrapped up in a vicious cycle of always seeking out the bigger and more extreme beer, and neglect the classics.  While it happens to the best of us, a little balance–beer feng shui–is in order.  Thus the choice of Bitburger as the Sip [...]

Being that it’s football season now, thankheavenforbeer.com will do its part to add to the collective world of beer and football.  My wife and I are pretty big Colts fans.  Since we live in California now, we find it difficult to be able to watch a Colts game on t.v.  We have come to the [...]