If you look around at the wine, beer and spirits media, the “Summer Drinking Recommendations” are ubiquitous. They’re like Ray Bans and Katy Perry songs–turn to the left, you got em.  Step out of the subway?  Bam!  Two people wearing Ray Bans greet you at the top of the stairs. And walk into any bar, […]

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“Don’t do it, man.  It’s not worth it”. The advice was succinct and deadening to my soul.  Enough to take the wind out of anyone’s sails.  But we decided to push on. Last month, the idea hit my wife and I to trick out our Saison homebrew recipe and do something a little different, something […]

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Homebrewing is sort of like parenting…  Watching the little tyke evolve from the ornery days of vicious fermentation may just be akin to the terrible two’s where your kid would rather nash at your arm than peacefully eat his or her porridge. And like a good parent, a brewer must give the beer proper temperatures to […]

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