First Home Brew of 2015

Last Sunday we brewed a beer. We went with a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale clone recipe from the Clone Beers book. We haven’t actually brewed anything in about a year, and we we’ve used this recipe before, so went with something relatively simple and familiar to ease ourselves back into it. We used our homegrown…

Major Award

As I mentioned I entered a beer photo contest in November. I submitted some photos in 2013 and didn’t win so I wasn’t expecting to this time either. I shouldn’t have underestimated the cuteness of my kid: Olivia and her Arrogant Bastard onesie helped me win the prestigious A Good Beer Blog Baby and Beer…

Sierra Nevada Narwhal Stout Stew

We had our own version of Sierra Nevada’s Stout Stew last night. First we changed up the beer used by switching from Sierra Nevada’s flagship stout to 2014 Narwhal Imperial Stout. We also used venison instead of beef and left out the mushrooms. This made for a hearty stew that more than matched the rich…

SF Giants on Twitter

Last year I posted Baseball’s Kings of Twitter, ranking MLB players by their Twitter followers. It was interesting and all, and it got a shout out from Twitter follower leader Nick Swisher, but who really cares about any of those jokers? There were no San Francisco Giants on that list, so it was clearly a…