Brewers Blog: Recognizing Some Off Flavors

There are hundreds of flavors and aromas in beer. When those flavors and aromas combine, there can be thousands of additional aromas and flavors created. But are all desirable?

Brewers Blog: Filtered vs. Unfiltered

You wouldn’t think that something as seemingly mundane as filtration could elicit such strong emotions among brewers and beer drinkers, but it does…

Brewer’s Blog: Gender Roles in Beer Advertising

Do women like beer? More would, if beer liked them.

If you look at beer advertising over the past few decades and knew nothing about the drink, you might conclude that beer is a drink for fraternity boys with a penchant for misogyny, marketed by athletes, rappers and girls on “bikini teams.”

Brewer’s Blog : “Session Beers”

I’m a big believer in the “reset” button.   I’m not very technically savvy, so when things go a little haywire, like an iPhone or my son’s Xbox, it’s nice to push reset and start …

Brewer’s Blog: Cask Conditioned or “Real” Ales

When I was in college I spent a semester at the University of London. More accurately, I spent a semester at the Marlborough Arms, which was a pub between my train stop and the school. …

Brewer’s Blog: What’s Up With Barrel-Aged Beers?

The hot topic that keeps coming up in my conversations with people is barrel-aging. That is, storing beer in wooden barrels to get some unique flavors from the wood. It’s actually not a new concept …

Beer is healthy for you. Really.

We’re almost through January, have your resolutions held up? A lot of people (OK, me) were resolute in trying to live healthier lives. That includes exercising more, eating right and cutting back on beer. Since …