Hall of Beers

Well just when I was getting down on my fancy beer brewing… the very same day, in fact… Samuel Adams gave me a shot in the arm! Why, just take a look!

That’s right! Captain and Mrs. Beer’s Maple Porter received a score of “very good” from the professional panel of tasters from the Sam Adams […]

Perhaps we’ve all come too far too fast, boys. As I gathered round the table with the Sargent and Kolonel last weekend, I came to an unsettling realization. It has been maybe 5, 6 batches since I brewed a simple beer without going all wonky on the recipe. And frankly, 2 of those batches came […]

Gather round children, for I come bearing words of encouragement, rather than disgrace (reference my Apocalypse post of two months ago). As we speak (or rather, as you read the words I previously typed… previous, that is, to right now! Right… NOW!), my freshly-brewed Dunkelweizen is busily bubbling away in the coat closet. I wanted […]

Folks, I know I haven’t been reviewing all that many beers lately, but I have a good excuse—the Cap’n has so much homebrew around the house these days that I’ve barely bought beer in the past few weeks. There are upsides and downsides to this. I’d get into them, but instead, I think I’ll just […]

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Then you and I are among the same ranks. Except that WE HAVEN’T MAILED OUR BEER YET BLUAAAUGH!!! Now, if I didn’t have this goddamn stupid job, I’d drive my fine braus out to the testing site here in Southern CA myself. But I do. So I […]

BELGIAN WIT ROUND III, KIDS! DAMN RIGHT!*

That’s right, we brewed us another Belgian Wit, and this one’s going to rule. It’s been a brewy week, beervolk. The Mrs and I bottled our Blackberry Wheat two nights ago, and then last night we brewed us some Belgian Wit, baby! We’re talkin’ sweet dried orange peel, cloves, […]

Those there are but three of the many refrigerators devoted to fine beer at the superlative Red Carpet Liquors. I can often be found pacing back and forth before the hundreds of bottles, muttering and plotting. Yesterday, myself and Mrs. Beer went to a stout tasting event at Red Carpet, and it was the cat’s […]

Friends, you see those ‘lil bubbles in that thar airlock? That’s this Captain’s second batch of Belgian Wit brewing. Our first go round, complete with peels of orange, spice of cloves and cinnamon and uh… spice, and some secret hobo ingredients was, in a word, shweet. We’re almost out of our 2 case batch of […]

The Sergeant’s recent joy at the first sip of his homebrew IPA has me geared up for my stout, folks (our stout, Mrs. Beer). But… two more weeks. Two. More. Weeks. Damn. What a life to lead. Tomorrow we bottle, in 2 weeks we drink, in about a month… it should be a m a […]

So… I’m going to add nuts and coffee to my stout’s secondary fermenter. What do you think? You think I’m nuts (ha)? Well… if and when this brau rocks, you can eat those words, Mr./Mrs. You can eat them with a fork! And use your napkin. You have a little—yeah. I think it’s… pasta sauce? […]