This is how I plan to spend my retirement. 

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The Session is a monthly beer blogging topic. This month’s session is about the beer moment.

A beer moment? Why do I want to get so romantic with this phrase? I want to dip my pen into a sappy image of imperial stouts and earthy Trappist ales. See here the big and the bold beer. The craft beer. The, oh god this sounds so silly, artisan brewer stirring a wooden paddle through a thick resting mash. Yes, these are all fine things that define ...

There's a part of me that thinks this video takes itself a little too seriously, but I think that about most things anyway. Still, this well made video that tells a bit about the brewing philosophy (and even label design) of the Schneider Brewery is well worth the watch. Schneider is located Kelheim, German and even Google Map's view makes this place look picturesque. I want a German beer very badly now. Especially a Schenider which brews some outstanding beers. One note, the ...

Ghost Face Killah, the hottest beer in the world, found its way into my fridge and then into my mouth. And I survived. For those of you not familiar with the famous—or possibly infamous—Twisted Pine creation,  Ghost Face Killah is a chili beer with Anaheim, Fresno, Jalapeno, Serrano, Habanero, and Ghost Peppers. Ghost Peppers! The Ghost Pepper is rated at 855,000 heat units on the Scoville scale. If you are wondering how hot that is Tabasco’s Red Pepper sauce rates between ...

There is a surprisingly vast array of ways to measure how much beer you got. Vast! And each of these measurements can get a bit confusing. For example the US and the UK use fluid ounces, and pints but while they have the same name they're not the same thing. Why? Because it's more exciting that way. Here's my attempt to sort some of these measurements out.

Let's start with things that fit in your hand, and given the name of ...

The Session is a monthly beer blogging topic. This month's topic comes from Kendall Jones at Washington Beer Blog.

The first time I homebrewed the friend who walked me through the process told me he would pick up a couple growlers beforehand. WTF s a growler, I asked. He replied simply, it's just a glass jug for beer. Oh. Well that's simple enough. And, if homebrew isn't available, there's nothing quite like a fresh beer from a local brewery to ...

Santa kindly gave me a Refractometer for Christmas this year, which rocked because it was on my list of gifts for your favorite homebrewer. And just a couple of weeks ago I brewed up a doppelbock and got to try my new toy out. It was everything I dreamed it would be. Geeky. Easy to read. Rather badass looking. I was happy. Then I went to take a reading after fermentation had slowed down and got a sky-high reading. Wait? Did I under-pitch? Was the ...

If you follow the same blogs I do, you've probably already run into this video, but it's so freaking cool I am going to share it anyway.

This dude, Sebastian Schmieg, ran a Google Image Search recursively over 2,900 times. And this video is what you get. If you haven't tried searching with an image on Google Image Search before you should give it a try. Just goto images.google.com and click the little camera icon in the search box ...

The Session is a monthly beer blogging topic. This is my first time participating and oddly enough the topic isn’t about beer.

I almost always drink beer, but when I don’t I drink… I drink. Well, I mean, I guess… this is a harder question than it seems. Water. Water is nice. But that seems a bit boring. What about coffee? I do drink a lot of coffee when I am not drinking beer.  And coffee is brewed. Brewed, hey, that’s kind ...

My wife comes from Manhattan. No, not the cool one, the one in Kansas. Yep, the Little Apple. And yes, this home to Kansas State University, does refer to itself as the Little Apple. In fact her childhood home is just south of Houston Street, so you could technically say she’s from SoHo, Manhattan. We end up visiting the Little Apple a few times a year and with any place I visit I consider it a kind of duty to locate the local breweries ...