The Best

My favorite product rating sources are The Wirecutter and The Sweethome. They’re kind of like Consumer Reports, but instead of tedious charts breaking down every inane nuance, they just say: this thing is the best and you should buy it if you need one. You should probably just check them out instead of continuing to…

2015 Photo Contest Submissions

As I did in 2013 and 2014, I submitted some photos to the A Good Beer Blog photo contest this year. I actually won a book last year thanks to this photo of my adorable child: Here are the astounding masterpieces I submitted this year: And here are a couple more that didn’t quite make…

Backyard Harvest Pale Ale

We moved to a house with room to grow a few things a year ago, so I decided to brew a beer with some ingredients harvested from our backyard. The beer started as a five gallon batch brewed and dry-hopped with homegrown Cascade hops. Then I split it into three smaller batches. I added one…