“I’m not comfortable with home brewing… It seems fraught with mischief to me.”
- Gregory Bell
Utah State Senator (R)
Several years ago Kevin and I traveled to the Four Courners area of the Southwest to visit his sister who lives in Durango, Colorado. Like every vacation we take, we managed to make it into a beer trip – being sure [...]

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The Simple Dollar website breaks down the cost of homebrewing in the post “A walkthrough and Cost Breakdown of Brewing Your Own Beer.”   This is a great article that includes a step by step process of the most basic extract brewing process.
As most of you know, Kevin, Sarah and I all homebrew.   I had always [...]

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I’ve had this day marked on my calendar for a month now. I’ve been patiently counting down the days until Wednesday, March 4th. I’ve been calling it Shorts Day. No, not the day where I dig my ripped up shorts out of the bottom drawer and my wife comments how I [...]

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This past weekend marked the first Michigan beer festival that I was able to participate in (by “participate in”, I mean drink) since before Maggie was born.  Last year I attended the Michigan Winter Beer Festival in Grand Rapids as a volunteer pourer for Rochester Mills Brewing Company. I attended the summer festival, but mostly  a spectator [...]

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In April a new documentary will be released that focuses on breweries both big and small and their battle for our taste buds. The film is called Beer Wars. On the release date (April 16th) at 8pm their will be a live showing of the film with an industry panel discussion hosted by Ben Stein after the screening. [...]

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