An Imperial Stout is, more often than not, defined by its grain bill. It isn’t a “hoppy” beer (though I have had some solid hoppy-RIS, like Close Encounters ...

I love Russian Imperial Stouts. I’m not a beer collector or trader, but I’ll go out of my way for a good RIS. I horde Yeti and Expedition. My first ...

I don’t have a mind for numbers. I love the idea of math and theoretical puzzles and problem solving, but I just can’t wrap my head around the numbers. If ...

I imagine most people, like myself, see the term “oak-aged” and automatically assume the term is synonymous with “barrel-aged”. When I first started ...

Toasts and Chars After the initial release of the Wood Primer, my work on it fell behind and stopped altogether while I focused on articles ...

My typical brew day goes something like this: Wake up fairly early, grind coffee with my manual burr grinder, and get that going. Since I’ve printed ...

When I first started looking into using wood in my homebrew, my first question was “what sort of toast should I be using?” At the time I wasn’t aware there ...

There’s myriad information out there that we, as brewers, tend to take as fact simply because it has always been fact. Things like “hot-side ...

When you buy a pack of liquid yeast, there are two things you should be aware of. One is how many cells are in the pack. For yeasts by WYeast and White ...

I have a friend named Evan who is currently teaching English in the Czech Republic. I don’t have too many opportunities to talk to him, but in one of our ...

When I first started brewing I had no palate whatsoever. I couldn’t taste the difference between any sort of IPA (I still have trouble with this), all ...

You may remember me talking about a friend of mine in the Czech Republic who is ranting and raving about their Pilsners, and that I took said ...