Breweries are starting to pop up in and around the Inland Empire at an amazing rate. A friend-of-a-friend noticed that there are several breweries along the Metrolink train route. He made a spreadsheet and came up with a plan. Metrolink offers system-wide day passes for $10 on the weekend. We ...

Before I set goals for 2017, let's check in and see how I did on my 2016 goals. The goals were:

• Brew a beer in excess of 11.5% ABV
• Brew a lager
• Complete my e-HERMS by getting a larger mash tun
• Brew a session IPA
• One blog post ...

I brewed a batch of beer last weekend and hit an important milestone. I filled up my brewing notebook, which means that I now have fifty brews under my belt. My first entry is dated December 30, 2012, so I've done these 50 batches in a little over 3 ...

I've been thinking about brewing a smoked porter for quite a while. A couple of things that have been holding me back are trying to figure out exactly how much smoked malt to use and what type of smoked malt to use.

There are several types of smoked malt ...

When my wife asked me what I wanted for Christmas, I had a hard time coming up with something as I had recently finished my e-HERMs build and was at the point where I didn't really need any equipment. We were sitting on the couch, watching something on Food ...