Kegging has got to be my favorite part of the whole brewing process. Or bottling for that matter, if that’s all you got. The punch line is that this is the time when I first taste what has transformed from wort to beer. I learn the alcohol content,...

Kegging is great. It is so much easier to transfer the beer one time – from fermenter to keg, as opposed to fermenter to bottling bucket, preparing priming sugar solution, sanitizing dozens of bottles, filling them, and capping them. Yet kegs still...

So I made an IIPA and an RIS a week and a half ago on October 17th. This past weekend, I gave them both something special. The RIS got a dose of oak. Two ounces of Hungarian Oak cubes. I was going for American Oak chips, but Hungarian Oak cubes is all...

When it comes to things that other people like, I go back and forth. At times, the popular seems petty, but then at other times, I fall for that shit right away. One of my favorite things that are also other people’s favorites is lists, like top ten...

When last I brewed on August 29th, I planned to save the yeast. I was intent on making a couple of big beers – an IIPA and an RIS. But now that the dry yeast costs $4 a pack instead of $2 a pack, I’m not so eager to just buy a few packets to get my...