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Brew Ha Ha: making a fuss about beer

June 17th, 2008

Tasteful Tuesday: Beer Starter for Sourdough Bread

I’ve been a little obsessed with making bread for the past few months using my wonderful bread machine. This week, I stumbled upon a recipe for sourdough based on a beer starter and gave it a whirl. The recipe calls for little to no use of the bread machine - you can do […]

By Kelly -- 0 comments

May 21st, 2008

Beers and Brats

Hmm, a challenge, I love a challenge.
These are the bratwurst beers I’d pick off the cuff:
1. Jever Pilsner (or any of a number of other hoppy Pilsner-style beers)
2. Spaten (or Augustiner Edelstoff, if you can find it)
3. Victory Hop Devil
4. Gaffel Kölsch
5. Beck’s (that one’s for sentimental reasons, but I’m sticking with it)
I almost picked […]

By Chris -- 0 comments

October 25th, 2007

A glass by any other name

I’m a pain in the ass about beer glasses, I admit it. Not only do I (strongly) prefer my beer from a glass, I prefer it from the correct glass as well. My wife has grumbled at me in the past because, having switched from a Pilsner to a Munich Helles, I also switched from […]

By Chris -- 4 comments

September 17th, 2007

Beer and pizza, pizza in beer

I like beer with a lot of different foods, from all sorts of different places. Indeed, entire books have been written on the subject (none of which I’ve actually read). But surely one food which goes well with beer is pizza.
Now, I must confess to often choosing a big-bodied red wine with my favorite slice, […]

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September 5th, 2007

A not-so-welcome guest

So, I mentioned a wonderful beer I had at a party recently. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the beer I brought to the party, which was disappointing. More disappointing is that it was from Tröegs, a Pennsylvania brewery which usually brews very fine beers. In fact, Tröegs’ beers are so good that I’ve never once complained about […]

By Chris -- 0 comments