Science strikes again! For no particular reason, let’s talk about mashing today. As with many of the topics that show up in these articles, there wi...
The Tao of Selling Beer
As has happened several times before, this piece is going to be an attempted response to some comments I have received. Every couple of weeks, someon...
The PenIs Mightier
I spent last Saturday at the very same Craft Writing Symposium our favorite Curmudgeon has discussed in his last two posts. Rather than another asses...
He’s Not Heavy, He’s My Suga
Welcome back, folks. This time around, let’s talk about big beers. Many people think of high gravity beers as the sole province of winter, and there...
Dumping: An Effluent Tale
As I have done before, I recently ran across some material that interested me and thought I should write about it. The particular material in qu...
A Brief Historie of the Bug Wars
As Against the Grain spends more and more time playing with our nascent All Funked Up series of wild and sour beers, I find myself spending more thoug...
His Dork Materials
The academic in me desperately wanted a thesis to this article, but I don’t think there is going to be one. The BA recently released the 2013 Raw Mat...
License and Registration, Please
Over the last two years, I have been startled a number of times by how easy people think it is to have a brewery. I’m not even talking about the actu...
A Brief (Disjointed and Disorganized) History of Beer
It is my personal belief that the facts of history are almost irrelevant. It is the power to influence the present and the future that makes history ...
Peeking Inside the Brewer’s Package
For the second article in a row I’m going to respond to a comment on a previous article. I love doing these because I know there is at least one pers...