Batch 500 Earlier this month, Rudy brewed our 500th batch. Five hundred uses of our system, seven hundred and fifty barrels of Community Beer Works beer. He couldn’t let it be just any beer. So he made In C. In C, you might recall, was the original version of our American Pale Ale featuring citra, centennial…
I picked up the Ithaca Box of Hops: 12 bottles of four different hoppy beers. I considered writing about them on the blog, and realized I’m most happy with my beer writing when I consider the situation in which I’m drinking the beer. Beer tasting is subjective and influenced by everything from your…
Espress yourself There are benefits to being at the Horsefeathers market. In addition to seeing all you wonderful people, there are also wonderful vendors, and with them we can make sweet, sweet magic. For instance: public espresso + coffee. Espresso! We love espresso. I’m drinking some right now (it’s 5 in the morning as I…
I scribbled the above in the margins of my copy of The Audacity of Hops. It’s one of many such annotations, though most are not nearly as…
Triple threat There have been some developments in our never ending march toward world domination. We’re on tap at three new places! Starting this week we’ve made deliveries to: Acropolis McGarret’s, and Salumeria Belsito If we’re…
This is a followup of sorts to “How easily our ship is steered,” which is funny because I’ve been meaning to write about the article in question since September. While the initial post was more science-y, however, this one’s going to have a bit of th’ ol’ soapbox in it, so I…
Well, not so much cold anymore as snowy. But I haven’t yet been outside today, so I guess we’ll see. Tarred and Horsefeathered We’re not content. No, never content. The status is not quo! Being at one retail location on Saturday? Pshaw! Pshaw, I say. Instead, starting this Saturday we’ll also be at the Horsefeathers market. From…
I picked up the Ithaca Box of Hops: 12 bottles of four different hoppy beers. I considered writing about them on the blog, and realized I’m most happy with my beer writing when I consider the situation in which I’m drinking the beer. Beer tasting is subjective and influenced by everything from your…
Well, I’m going to break the fourth wall for a moment, but technically it’s the past. This is being written in 2013! I hope that all of society’s ills have been fixed. Doubling down on Saturdays Perhaps you’ve noticed: it’s cold. Just as we did at the end of October, many of the rest of the…