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We don't do the Naked Elf every year anymore. A bunch of Scratch beers ago we re-released it for fun, #21. It's pretty tasty, I prefer it to the Mad version, personally. You will NOT get that red color without the cherries. Unless you use red food coloring like Killian's. I'm unsure exactly...

Just had a Winter Lager on draft Friday night. Wasn't a fan before, and now I really don't like it. The Yuengling Lager I had after it tasted better! With the exception of Octoberfest and Boston Lager, I really find most of what Sam Adams does unexceptional, and sometimes downright terrible...

Nodding Head, definitely. If they have their Berliner Weisse on (maybe a seasonal?), get it. And if you're traveling via the PA Turnpike, Troegs is only a short 6 miles north of exit 242! :)

Oh ok. I don't actually buy my grain, my employer is kind enough to let me skim their stock, but I'm sure we get analysis sheets with every order.

I didn't think you could end below 1.000, but holy wow. You can probably run a jet engine on it if it doesn't taste good.

It's not just you. I don't like many of them either. In fact, I can't finish nearly every one I try.

Two in a day? I'm really good at cramming two hours of brewing into six hours of work, so that would be a tiring day for me!

Beer is a health food. You can't get diseases from it. Therefore, health food. I told my doctor. She was strangely skeptical.

I decided to calculate my efficiency the long way, actually looking up each and every extract efficiency and moisture number from each maltster of each grain I used yesterday, and it took almost an hour just to find the numbers. Cargill's are hidden pretty well, and I had to find Weyermann's...

Get ready for some oxidation flavors, but otherwise you are golden. Nothing that can live in beer can make you the least bit sick or come close to killing you. Thank you alcohol and alpha acids.

Just want to throw this out there, I am going to do a bourbon imperial stout for my wedding, and I was looking about the Interwebs and found a craft distillery in NY called Tuthilltown Spirits that will sell you a used 3 gal. bourbon barrel for $76. I am going to age half the batch in that and...

So you're looking to brew a beer that's north of 12% but doesn't have that "hot" alcohol bite to it? Adding sugar will dry a beer out, and make the alcohol come out a little more, so you're probably right, you shouldn't add sugar. You could mash at a higher temperature (if you're doing...

When I think (American) barleywine, I think of an IPA that had more hops and a ton more malt thrown in. Sweeter than a double IPA, darker and more hoppy than a standard IPA. Lighter in color, though, than an imperial stout, which share a barleywine's hoppiness and ABV. This is an American...

The Belgians missed your memo, and made lambics. I am eternally grateful.

My rant about bottles: If you were a venture capitalist and someone came to you and said they were starting a company, and that they were going to manufacture a product, your next question would be, "How are you going to package it for sale?" They reply, "I'm going to put it in the most...

It's definitely not as alcohol-hot and spicy aged. I like it better...I don't think it tastes much different this year, either.

I don't see why you couldn't lager in the keg. Maybe put like 2 psi to keep it from oxidizing, then carb it after your lagering period? Seems about right. Good style choice, by the way. A big, dark, malty lager is a heck of a lot easier to do than a straw-colored, 4%, low-body lager. Say...

I used to love it, then I got a job there. Now I can't stand it :p

Aside from where I work and Sierra Nevada, Victory is my favorite brewery. Just about everything they do is golden. I could drink Storm King all year long and then Old Horizontal all winter long. Their Lager is wonderfully drinkable, too. The brewery tour is pretty cool, their facility is...

I only use malty beers in cooking. I've never had success with hoppy beers in food. Hoppy beers are good for drinking with spicy foods, but not in them. If you ever have Thai food, drink an IPA with it, you'll wonder how you lived before it. I use Troegenator (big doublebock, doesn't know...