Random Articles

• Done Monkey-ing Around “…my fear on this one is that no one will want to drink [the beer] for fear they will be implicated, or worse yet, sympathetic to the kidnappers.” - Bongo’s slightly regretful kidnapper.
• The Ongoing Beer List On the tail of a Twitter conversation on Wisconsin beers and a renewed interest in homebrewing seemed like a perfect time to write up my favorite beers. Top 3 Anytime, Anywhere Beers Affligem Abbey Blond Surly Bender Rush River - The Unforgiven (note to self- get these guys on the podcast.) Special Occasion Beers Killing time on a beautiful spring
• The Serenity of Affligem If I haven’t praised the beer buyer at St. Anthony Village Liquors before - well, it’s about time. I picked up a sixer of Affligem. A tasty, tasty Belgian Abbey Blond tracing it’s history back to 1074 (900 years older than me, that’s a beer!) and for the last half-dozen years been half-owned by Heineken. I
• Fermenting: Lefse Blonde I bottled up the Hefeweisen on Saturday, and after cleaning everything up, the carboy looked so empty and alone. So, Sunday night, I brewed up a batch of Northern Brewer’s Lefse Blonde (equiv. to a Belgian Abbey Blonde Ale yummmm). Watching the fermenters boil (6lbs of Bliess Pilsen malt extract and 1lb of soft Blond
• Hoegaarden and Tivoli as Storm Provisions. We picked up a Tivoli iPAL a couple weeks ago. I’m glad we did. Tonight was the first big storm of the summer - without the Tivoli we would have been without a battery-powered radio. Before the weather went south, I thought a nice Belgian beer would be refreshing in the 80 degree heat. The wind