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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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