Happy New Year! It sure has been a while. 2011 was a crazy year, having more ups and downs than most of the years before it. As far as beer goes, we made some great beers, attended our first National Homebrewers Conference in San Diego, and settled on plans to move to Adelaide, Australia to open our brewpub in a [...]

I don’t normally make New Year’s resolutions. In the past I’ve made them in order to hold myself accountable to do specific things; get my drivers license, lose 20 lbs…blah, blah, blah. Never works. I didn’t get my drivers licence till I was 27 (10 failed resolutions later) and I go up and down those 20lbs based on what exciting [...]

I forgot to post July’s sign! Sounds pretty fair to me; I wonder if Lois Frankel has read this sign? I hope so.

My local dive bar, Harry’s Banana Farm always has incredibly witty signs; so I’ve decided they deserve a feature on the blog. Starting with one that’s particularly appropriate (and probably true!):

Alright, I know. I’ve been super slack this past couple of weeks with my blog…I blame summer express classes. I mean what kind of sadist came up with the idea of cramming a 15 week class into 6 weeks? Evil. I have many, many reviews to catch up on, but to start here’s a couple I’ve been sitting on. First [...]