After three long years of contemplating, dreaming, a thousand conversations, over 800 posts, and a ton of hard work; we are officially announcing that we are fundraising for our brewery. If ever you paid attention to any post we have written, please let it be this one. Thanks so much for being a part of [...]
The fact that we got so many hits from the article posted by Loren Berlin has gotten me thinking about some other articles we have written. Although she quoted our article specifically in the wider beer context, the original articles were meant to justify the cost of craft beer versus the relatively inexpensive nature of [...]
Welcome to our site. We have received a recent influx of traffic and have taken note of the fact that we have some new readers. First, thank you for choosing to visit our site in the first place. Second, we thank you for choosing to come again by hitting the RSS button. Your presence has [...]
Lovely, well that would be one way to describe both the weather and my current thoughts on the future. There is a serious thrill running through my mind because I just viewed the rough cut of our video. My friend Brent filmed it, and we will work on the final editing together. The reason I’m [...]
Given that an opportunity lies before us, we are taking it as a chance to make an announcement. We are opening our brewery. For those of you who read the site regularly, you know it is something we frequently muse about. However, something you do not know yet is that we have been in the [...]
Nate and I were recently contacted by a journalist over at Daily Finance/AOL. Anyway, we got a nice little quote and a link to our article about the cost of hops. The Daily Finance article is less about craft beer specifically and more about beer in general. Still, it was nice to get a bit [...]
Beginning with a recipe for spent grain bread, this article is the first in a series to explore “Thrifty Homebrewing,” where we share ideas for conserving, preserving, and saving resources in homebrewing.
Blog stats are an interesting phenomenon. At first they become an indispensible measure of how good or bad a blog is, next they become a strived after commodity, then they become a curiosity. Who hasn’t felt at least a few of these perceptions creeping in the back of their mind? I know I have. Lately, [...]
On several occasions I’ve mentioned that when it comes to brewing beer, the more ownership I have over the process, the better I feel about the finished product. For example, I make my own candy sugar, dry my own orange peels, and culture much of the yeast I use. Recently I planted my own hop [...]
