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My Two Favorite Beer Books

By brian | Published: February 2, 2012

I love making beer, truly I do. If ever there was a way – perhaps a reality-augmenting piece of stainless machinery – that would allow me to curl up close with my beer making and kind of snuzzle my junk up and down on it’s leg all the time, i would totally be in to [...]

Also posted in Beer | Tagged Brew Strong, Brewing Better Beer, Brewing Network, Can You Brew It, Don Cornelius, Gordon Strong, Radical Brewing, Randy Mosher, Ray Daniels | Leave a comment

New Chef at Chief O’Neill’s

By brian | Published: December 5, 2011

A co-worker just hit me up with the news that Alan Lake is going to be the new chef at Chief O’Neil’s. About two days ago, Lake told me he took the full-time chef position at O’Neill’s. What cinched the deal for him, he said, was his experience at the famous Shelbourne in Ireland, where [...]

Also posted in Beer, Event | Tagged Alan Lake, Chicago, Chief O'Neill's, LTH | Leave a comment

A Mash/Boil Screen Has Made Homebrewing Much Easier

By brian | Published: November 14, 2011

I’ve slowly come to realize while building our brew system that the tools and techniques compiled to create our beer are as much a part of us and our creation as the finished beverage that comes out of it. And, like every good work of art, this one, too, will never be finished. Transcended, maybe [...]

Also posted in Beer, Gear, Instructional | Tagged bazooka screen, Homebrewing, mash/boil screen, northern brewer | Leave a comment

Fuck Me, Pay You

By brian | Published: October 3, 2011

Cuz I can get 4 of these bad mammy jammies for what I’d pay for 1 of those wicked Kratwerk sweaters. Sweater blog!

Posted in Review | Tagged Christmas, Cthulu | Leave a comment

Speidel Braumeister, a 1-piece, enclosed brew system?

By brian | Published: September 21, 2011

Hiya. Don’t worry, I still love you even though we don’t hang out as much anymore. Really, I do. And don’t be so insecure, it’s making you seem fat. Or maybe it’s the other way around. Either way, knock it off. While I’ve been traveling the finer end of the seasonal shifts and enjoying these [...]

Also posted in Beer, Gear, Instructional | Tagged BrauBushka, freebord, morebeer.com, Speidel Braumeister | Leave a comment

Great Taste of the Local Option

By brian | Published: August 9, 2011

Local Option is like the black tar Heroine of Chicago beer bars. It’s dark, effective and it doesn’t fuck around. Case in point is this Friday’s event, “The Great Taste of the Local Option”, featuring 31 of the most well programmed beers you’re bound to find in any bar, let alone any bar in Chicago. [...]

Also posted in Beer, Event | Tagged Chicago, Evil Twin, Great Taste of the Local Option, Jeppe Bjergso, Local Option, Noah Hopkins, Tony Russomanno | Leave a comment

The Season of the Goat: Farm to Table Goat & The Joy of Open Pit, Whole Beast BBQ

By brian | Published: July 20, 2011

Earlier this season I put a fire pit in my back yard. Actually, that was the first thing I put in my backyard. A firepit, surrounded by dirt on all sides. Eventually we got around to putting in some grass and some stone work to gussy it up a bit, but the first effort was [...]

Also posted in Beer, Event, Grilling, Health, Recipes | Tagged BBQ, Brains, Brooklyn Sorachi Ace, Farm to Table, Goat, open pit, sala, Sensory Training, Siebel Institute, Stillwater, The Bruery, Zack the Chef | Leave a comment

SoDak Beer

By matt | Published: July 12, 2011

Although, I’ve been a denizen of the Windy city for near on twenty years now, I cut my teeth in the hardscrabble hills and endless prairies of South Dakota. Not a glamorous place to be from nor one that gets a lot of press, save the obligatory American pilgrimage to Mount Rushmore and the hell, [...]

Also posted in Beer | Tagged Corn Palace, Crow Peak, Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, Wall Drug | Leave a comment

Lagunitas Zephyr, Stone Dinner & Logan Square Free Concerts

By brian | Published: June 15, 2011

I’m so bloody tired all the time lately it’s driving me up a slippery wall. I’ve had to learn the hard way that, despite my doctor’s recommendations, I apparently can’t replace a 6 hour R.E.M. cycle with pure amphetamine salts and vick’s vapor inhalors. That’s the last time I trust a surgeon I meet at [...]

Also posted in Beer, Event | Tagged Big Star, Brewniversity, Empty Bottle, Lagunitas, Logan Square, Public House, Stone, The Publican, Zephyr | 1 Comment

Evil Twin & Mikkeller: Yin & Yang Release Night @ Bavarian Lodge

By brian | Published: June 1, 2011

Thank filthy Jesus that Chicago Craft Beer Week is over. It was great and full of great beer, but my aging corpus can’t take an 8 day bender like it used to. But, it was awesome. Certainly, one of the best parts for me was breaking from my well-worn routine and finding new places to [...]

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My Two Favorite Beer Books

New Chef at Chief O’Neill’s

A Mash/Boil Screen Has Made Homebrewing Much Easier

Fuck Me, Pay You

Speidel Braumeister, a 1-piece, enclosed brew system?

Great Taste of the Local Option

The Season of the Goat: Farm to Table Goat & The Joy of Open Pit, Whole Beast BBQ

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Lagunitas Zephyr, Stone Dinner & Logan Square Free Concerts

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