The bottle says that this is a straight up American Amber Ale, and it is exactly that – a truly terrific amber ale. Appearance: A nice white fluffy head with sticky lacing. The color is orange-amber. Aroma: Just the slightest hint of citrus and floral tones Taste: Resin followed by floral...

Tonight, it was my great pleasure to have the Imperial Ale from the Lang Creek Brewery of Marion, Montana. This beer is really good, and worth anyones attention. Appearence: Poured with a thin, white head with clingy lacing. The color was cloudy yellow (thanks Vida). Aroma: I swear to God,...

Today, I fired up the propane burner and brewed up a new beer, the HOP to IT. It’s an experimental pale ale with flaked oats and honey. The oats should add a creamy mouth feel and the honey will lend it’s floral elements to the fermentation. The recipe particulars are below. malt and...

Today we made a leap of faith…making dandelion wine. This beverage is a traditional springtime preparation. The recipe I had called for sugar – plain, old suger – and I hate fermentation with just sugar, so I replaced it with organic honey. Is it now dandelion mead? Recipe for 2 gallons...

The Saison DuPont is from Brasserie Dupont in Belgium, and to say that this beer as some earth notes would be a gross underestimate. Appearence: Pale golden orange. A white fluffy headwith great retention settles into chunky lacings. Aroma: Lots of earthiness Taste: Sweet up front followed...

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Appearance: Poured a clean, golden color with a clean white head about 1/2”. Very weak lacing Aroma: Clean – almost no aroma at all Mouth: Very clean throughout the palette with a weak hop bitterness. Overall: Notice the repeating words, clean and weak. This is one of the most...

Lately I’ve been listening to a lot of beer podcasts, and on The Good Beer Show, Mikey Mason performed one the funniest and most true songs ever. Drinking with Satan from Jeffrey Meyer on...

Just found out some interesting news about a group of Montana State University students who producing a film about craft breweries in Montana (http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=7156).