I’m pretty proud of our track record with brewer interviews here at OA. We interviewed Gabriel Magliaro just before Half Acre opened in 2009 and then did a great interview with the Pipeworks guys in 2010 when they started their kickstart campaign. Both of those companies have brought something truly unique and uplifting to Chicago’s [...]
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A Fresh Paradigm of Beer in Chicago: Dryhop’s Greg Shuff Interviewed
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Chicago’s Pipeworks Brewing Company’s “End of Days” Is About Perfect
I had the chance to try Pipeworks second effort last night, the End of Days milk stout. Made with ancho chilies, cinnamon and cocoa nibbs, End of Days delivers a beer that doesn’t stumble over any one ingredient, but elevates into a synergistic whole greater than any of it’s parts. I couldn’t be happier to [...]
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More Homebrewing with Fenugreek
My water extraction experiments were vaguely successful last week, but didn’t yield anything I felt would be worth jamming up a whole batch of homebrew on. With the water extraction I found that the whole seed, untoasted and cold steeped for a day, offered the best results. I put 1 tblspn in 4oz of water. [...]
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Be Super Human in 2011
Hi, hi, hi. I’m glad you survived the New Years. Truly, I am. A few weeks ago I was digging around the interwebs for a recipe to replace my dwindling stash of Bay Rum cologne. I’ve been addicted to this stuff for about ten years, but Burt’s Bee’s unfortunately discontinued it’s production about a year [...]
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Merry Christmas from Our Train Wreck to Yours
Don’t worry, we’ll work it out next year.
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Full Outsider’s Almanac Website Still Coming
Don’t lose hope dear internetting ones, we still have every intention of launching the full Outsider’s Almanac website in the near future, it just won’t be quite as soon as we had hoped. We’re pretty insanely busy these days, between writing projects, client needs, body/mind/spirit rehabbing and the pursuit of winter in it’s many splendered [...]
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