Two Brothers Brewing Co. Warrenville, Illinois Established 1996 Owners: Jim & Jason Ebel Annual Production: 12,000 Barrels in 2009 I sat down with Jim Ebel at the brewery on August 20, 2009. Then How does one make the leap from homebrewer to craft brewer? It’s a great question. When we opened in 1996 micros were just [...]
So where did all of this holiday beer brewery start anyway? Is it some invention of the innovation crazed American craft beer movement? Or did it start with the Brits, perhaps sometime in the nineteenth century? Or maybe the druids? To get the answer to this question I suspect you have to go waaaayyy back, [...]
Tis the season… The cold weather has finally arrived, at least up here in the North Country, and each week brings new seasonal beer releases. It’s the season for Christmas beers and winter warmers. What exactly is it that makes a beer a Christmas beer? To generalize, holiday ales tend to have higher alcohol content, [...]
If you are reading this then it is likely that you love beer. You probably invest a lot of money buying or a lot of care making the beer that you drink. If this is true for you (and we all know that it is), then you want to get the greatest impact from every [...]
