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Top five Philadelphia bars

Yesterday was my first trip to Prohibition Taproom in what my friend informed me was the “Loft District.” It was a great time. The bar was not too busy and the atmosphere was easy going. They had a limited, but well edited selection of draft beer and an excellent selection of bottles. All craft beers. [...]

New Toy…

Brewing a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale clone

In Beer News…

With my head still in Thailand and my hand in my latest brewing experiment (I’m calling it “Spacewine IPA”), I was just now able to catch up on beer news. I’m most excited about two tidbits of info from my favorite brewery, Dogfish Head: Apparently, there is now a restaurant of theirs near my parent’s [...]

quote of the day…

Four out of five spouses surveyed did not like sticky floors. -John Palmer

Word of the day…

diacetyl

QOTD:

When you are dry hopping there is no reason to worry about adding unboiled hops to the fermenter. Infection from the hops just doesn’t happen. -John Palmer, “How to Brew”

Alagash Fluxus ’09

It would be helpful if, during the course of drinking a beer that I would like to review, I took a picture of the first pour. With the sexy head of foam, the first smell of the floral aroma, the golden flow of deliciousness as it melts into the glass. Yep. I shoulda taken a [...]

Bobby Porter…

I’m still waiting on the equipment to arrive so that I can start brewing my own beer. In the mean time, I’ve started brewing with some friends. My first experience was with some Tribesound EPA. Tribesound is the recording studio where I do some session work (I’m too lazy to look up the link. It’s [...]