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Good Enough to Drink May 8, 2013

Pickles, Pie and Beer

Oh My, It’s The State Fair. The Kentucky State Fair has it all, including the hoppy, homebrew heaven of one of America’s largest homebrew contests. Local homebrewers, mostly from Kentucky and Southern Indiana, compete in 28 beer style categories (94 sub-categories) for ribbons, fabulous prizes and bragging rights. There is even a contest for best [...]

The Mash Pit May 8, 2013

There is a Season, Brew, Brew, Brew

The onset of springtime here in Kentucky is particularly noteworthy for a few things: the deluge of pollen, creating an oh-so-pleasant onslaught of allergies, beautiful green trees, and for the homebrewers, making delicious spring seasonal beers. Though not every beer I make is brewed according to the season, I do very much enjoy it when [...]

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Good Enough to Drink April 29, 2013

John’s Remembrance IPA

The Brewer. John hasn’t brewed in a number of years, BK (Before Kids). Now that his kids are human enough he decided he wanted to get back into brewing. John’s a chemist and structural biologist, so that makes him pretty well suited for his day job discovering new cancer treatments at the James Graham Brown [...]

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Good Enough to Drink April 4, 2013

Hoppy Spring!

Spring is coming to Louisville. How do we know this to be true? One of the early vestiges of spring … the hops have sprung. The vines that will support the buds that will bring our beer bitter character and floral delight are starting to make their way out of the ground and reach ever [...]

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The Mash Pit March 30, 2013

No Ordinary Day

Recipe: check. Ingredients: check. Friends: check. Pint: check. This is no ordinary day. This is a brew day. Whether you’ve brewed a thousand times or if your homebrewing cherry is about to succumb to the wrath of beer, every homebrewer knows that a brew day is not just another day. Some people abide by a [...]

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Good Enough to Drink March 3, 2013

Ralph’s Single Dad Porter

The Brewer. Ralph has been brewing a little over 15 years. As an engineer, he has designed, constructed and pieced together much of his equipment. He has a pretty good beer basement set up starting with the most important part – a refrigerator with taps to dispense the beer he brews, plus a steady supply [...]

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The Mash Pit February 14, 2013

Recipe Construction

“If you will it, dude, it is no dream” -Walter Sobchak (quoting Theodore Herzl) Wouldn’t it be nice if our minds were powerful enough to manifest a glass of delicious beer with nothing more than a mere bolt of mind lightning? Unfortunately for us, that is not the case. Beer is a complex beverage that [...]

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Good Enough to Drink February 7, 2013

Honey, It’s Time To Brew.

Kentucky has some great local honey. With all the flowers, fruits, trees, berries and relatively mild weather, bees have a holiday and provide some really rich flavors for putting on bread, cooking and yes, of course, beer. I have a bee guy in eastern Kentucky. The sourwood trees and berries growing in that part of [...]

The Last Best Class. Before They Moved.

Like any cooking or baking process, brewing is pretty easy to follow from a set of instructions and a recipe. There are tons of online instructions, videos and podcast. But also like baking and cooking, brewing is best learned from watching, doing and being with someone who knows what they are doing. I was able [...]

Why Brew Beer?

Editor’s Note: I’d like to introduce our newest contributor, Henry Hunt. Henry’s a homebrewer, Mac geek, and all around great guy. He’s someone I’ve known for years, and he asked me a while back if he could submit some articles on homebrewing, so here he is. Take it away, Henry. Simple. If you like to drink beer, you [...]