Now, it isn’t just because I’m a gemini that I picked up this brew. No, it was the fact that Southern Tier has recently started distributing to Maine, and I had to celebrate by picking up several bottles that I’ll be reviewing over the next few weeks. I can’t wait to try a lot of [...]

Brewed originally for the Extreme Beer Fest, this collaborative Dogfish brew was born from some pretty intense and crazy brainstorming. The Alstrom Brothers and Sam Calagione pitched ideas back and forth until their brew was born – a “brownish” ale featuring malts smoked with pecan wood, and some plantain flour and carob added in for [...]

As I stood, staring off into the void of my friend’s backyard while the beginnings of a homebrew boiled on the stove, I fantasized about hops. I was fascinated by the sharp and pungent bite of pellet hops we’d added only a few minutes earlier, but a yearning emerged. How much more satisfiying would it [...]