St. Paul, Minnesota, January 23rd. Low clouds present a dull, gray overcast. The temperature is an unseasonably warm thirty-five degrees. Light rain falls and freezes on contact with the much colder ground, making every step treacherous and driving an exercise in white-knuckled prayer. While it’s not as cold as it should be for the season, [...]
Dave’s Brewfarm sits atop a ridge in the rolling rural landscape of western Wisconsin about sixty miles east of the Twin Cities. Standing there one feels far removed from everything. Wilson, Wisconsin, the nearest town, is home to only about 180 people. A big sign set with heavy timbers at the top of the drive [...]
A significant part of my holiday beer consumption this year consisted of what I will call blended beer cocktails. By this I mean two or more beers mixed together. Blending beers is nothing new. The blending of one, two, and three-year-old lambic into gueuze is an art in Belgium and porter is purported to have [...]
A recent Twitter tweet re-inserted a question into my brain that I had been pondering some time ago. The tweeter posed a simple query, “Do you plan to travel out of state for a small-batch beer release in 2010?” The responses came within minutes. Things do happen fast on Twitter. “Why yes of course. And [...]
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