My mentor, Seth Godin, seems to say a thing or two every year that really gets under my skin in the best of ways. It makes me feel uncomfortable and sometimes frustrated as I try to figure out what it means for …
Given the ongoing pandemic, and other horsemen of the apocalypse that came trotting by during 2020, it feels a little off key to be writing a piece about gratitude, but that’s my plan. Yes, this was a tough year for …
Porter is a style with an interesting history. For starters there’s the name, which supposedly comes from this being a beer popular with street and river Porters – those people one used to employ in nineteenth century London to carry …
Crooked and Steep Batch #02 is a bourbon barrel-aged Barleywine, weighing in at 11% ABV. Barleywines have long been a cold-weather favorite, a rich and strong beer to provide sustenance and cheer during the days when the days are short …
I have heard a number of origin stories about bock beers, some of which seem worth recounting here. One of these I heard frequently as a younger brewer – that breweries traditionally made Bock Beer in the spring when …