Saison is another one of those beer styles where different brewer’s interpretations lead to a pretty diverse group of beers with distinct and various flavors all sharing the same moniker. I’ve had, for instance, a very delicious Black Saison (the style is generally a golden colored beer). I’ve had saisons with dominating spices like cardamom …
“There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.” Rosalyn Carter Eureka Springs is a beautiful town with many historic Victorian style homes. This tourist destination provides lovely hospitality and quaint charms in it’s many restaurants, shops, and lodging. Behind the scenes, affordable housing continues to be a big issue for our …
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 me, us, the brewery. This year the message was “It’s not enough to do what …
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 us all, and of course it added to the normal challenges of starting up a …
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 baggage for you. It’s a little hard to think back to a time when there’d …
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 and chilly, and a great beer to enjoy during holiday celebrations. They pair well with …
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 they “clean out the vats.” I can assure you this story isn’t literally true; brewers …
I was days away from graduating from my Master’s program when we went to Chitwan National Park in Nepal. We were to float down a river in a locally made boat sourced from a tree, do a safari, and tour an elephant refuge where the first twin elephants had been born just months before. Several …
(Written by Kelsey Johnson) Standing behind the bar, after greeting our customers with our standard, “What can we get for you?” we often here, “I am not the beer person, he/she is” or “My son/daughter just loves beer and breweries.” Our job as beertenders and passionate craft beer advocates is to help the person who …
The first iteration of what we anticipate as an ongoing collection of beers is a bourbon barrel-aged Stout, clocking in at 12.2% ABV. The base beer was a big, roasty stout that we fermented in stainless, then split into 3 different barrels for aging. For this particular project, we chose a Jim Beam barrel, a …