I got a very nice present from my best man on Friday. It sits in our front hallway looking at me, smiling in the way only it can. I will finish assembling it this weekend and will hopefully put it into action soon after. Where will it lay its giant head? Who knows! But in [...]

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I know that you, dear readers, are just as shocked as I am that Luke has not yet sent us a Mountainbeering article from Alaska. Our last dispatch from him was posted from Oregon. Meanwhile, Luke’s friend Emerson is working on a Cornell University research boat at the opposite but nearly as wild end of the [...]

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Whenever Joe makes homebrew, I whip up some spent grain bread. All the recipes I found on the internet treated the spent grain as a sort of add-on ingredient, the way you would treat cheese or raisins. I wanted it to be the main part–it is grain, after all. That’s what bread is. So after [...]

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One of the best parts of homebrewing (well, for me anyways) is getting to give your beer a fun name and then creating an original label for it. Joe’s first true brew, named Cata-Luke in honor of my brother Luke finally dragging us to the beer supply store to get it started, is ready. I [...]

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It is Sunday today – a day of rest. Boy do I need it!

Yesterday was lots of fun again. I went to a bunch of sessions. The best one for me was Ingredients 5-10 by Tomme Arthur. Tomme, from Port Brewing and Lost Abbey, is a great speaker and really shows his passion during his [...]

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