Beer-ro-technics

This is our new immersion wort (pronounced “wert”) chiller in action, transferring heat from a batch of “robust porter” (Midwest Brewing’s kit). Stuff took off like a racehorse. Four o’clock in the morning, I was awoken by a loud clatter to discover wort geysering forth . . . the top of the airlock [...]

Lederhosen do not a Mensch make

Dear Cincinnatians, How can I put this? To be perfectly honest, your Oktoberfest sucks. During the week I recently spent stranded in JFK airport, I read in a magazine about “the largest Oktoberfest outside of Munich”. How could I resist visiting Zinzinnati, OH for what promised to be an event of [...]