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Sam Adams Boston / Light and Summer Ale can appease most of the masses, then I would go with a Dogfish Head 90 minute or 60 minute IPA, Magic Hat #9, and I personally like UFO Raspberry Hefeweizen, and if you can get it (I live in Maine so we have different choices) a Sea Dog Bluberry Ale. I...

Along with not cooking their own food, many people just buy terrible "beer". 80% of the market is Anheuser-Busch/Coors/Miller, all of which taste the same. On top of that, Sam Adams has a decent amount of that 20% profit left over. That leaves the hundreds of craft brewers to 10%-15% of the...

It is pretty easy from what SWMBO does, and the quality is great. Basically you buy bulk glycerin based soap (http://www.brambleberry.com/Bulk-Melt-and-Pour-Soap-Base-C126.aspx) and melt it down with fragrances like honey or lavender or whatever you can think of, and then pour it into molds and...

SWMBO makes soaps that are amazing. I too make my own cheese, yogurt, and bread(levain made bread, which is keeping a mother-yeast going, so it makes unique, local bread). It was while making bread that I realized beer can't be that much more difficult than yogurt or bread. Plus, I'm moving to...

I know I'm new around here, but I have been reading a lot. I am moving to France to teach English, which puts me about 4 hours from Brussels, and (hopefully someone here knows) pretty close to the Abbaye de Saint-Sixte (Saint Sixtus Abby) where the Westvleteren 12 is brewed. I plan on going at...

When I was in Ireland a year ago my friends and I ordered a round of Irish car bombs, and nobody in the pub had ever heard of them. It is an American thing.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66S3SR20100729 A 120 proof beer, or 60% ABV