Tripel is a classic beer style that is well-defined by a number of great examples that are commercially available: Chimay Cinq Cents, Westmalle Tripel and Affligem Tripel, to name a few. While other Belgian Styles like Saison can have fairly…
During my time working in Germany, I’d work in the family Brewery 3 or 4 days a week, and then spend the remainder of the time exploring. I had a touring bicycle named Fandango, a fairly decent grasp of the…
The Crooked and Steep Series is an homage to the notoriously curvy and hilly roads that lead to Eureka Springs from any direction you care to approach it from. Just like the roads, the beers are either crazy or fun,…
Free Mom Hugs is our December Organization of the Month. Wendy wanted to support an organization that supports the LGBTQ community for her birthday month. Wendy, though in a wonderful, loving marriage with a man, has always identified as bisexual.…
This aroma and flavor profile of this beer lies on the continuum between Porter and Stout, so to really describe what we were trying to achieve here, it seems worth talking a little bit about those two styles, and the…
In Bavaria, where I lived and worked for a spell, I was introduced to the concept of “Brotzeit,” the literal translation of which is “bread time,” but was in fact a mid-morning break that generally included beer. The term ‘Brotzeit’…
This is a beer I’ve been looking forward to bringing out of the barrels for many months. The beer does not disappoint. We laid down about half of the Wee Heavy we brewed last year in oak barrels we sourced…
Our little town has a rich and very interesting history. We are fortunate to have a museum that not only captures that history, they bring it to life. The Museum’s mission is to collect, preserve, document and exhibit objects…
Smoked beers are probably the most divisive style of beer out there. For reasons I have never understood, even people who love smoked foods such as meat and cheese often fail to appreciate the lovely marriage of smoke and malt…
Remember the days before hazy IPAs? For a few years there, West Coast IPAs really dominated the beer scene, and with good reason: they’re delicious. And given all the hazy IPAs we’ve been kicking out, we decided a little contrast…
