A Little Extra Beer - Part I

I began my day with plans to brew a big beer, an all-grain Belgian Tripel , one of my favorite styles and worthy of having a keg on tap at a...

Hop Infusion Using A French Press

If you keg your beer, here's a effective and simple way to add extra hop flavor/aroma to those beers that benefit from the additions. Sp...

Beer Judge

I helped judge beer for the Santa Cruz County Fair and learned the procedures and etiquette for the process. In my case as a new (non-bjcp)...

Hop Bag Device

Here's a video of my version of making your own hop bag device for the brew kettle. I used this for the first time when making this vide...

Los Gatos Brewpub Visit

I picked up a couple bags of base grain for myself at Morebeer in Los Altos and since I was 'over the hill' as they say here, I dec...

English Ale Split Batch

In the fourth class of the five class series of brew school, the students brewed up a ten gallon all-grain batch of English ale. Because the...

The Parish Public House

Besides multiple brewpubs and breweries located in Santa Cruz, we've also got a couple of good beer bars that are worth a visit. I recen...