Ryeghteous Brown Does it Again

Ryeghteous Brown Ale does it again, bringing home a Round One win for the Mellody Home Brewery. Faithful followers know, this is a favorite beer of mine and one I actually haven’t brewed in over two years. I have been too focused on perfecting the Patersbier and a few others, that the Ryeghteous became the forgotten child of the family, sitting at the mall alone after it’s Dad left without him.  Ryeghteous Brown won the only other competition it’s been entered into as well – so it’s got a good streak going. It will be entered into the National Homebrew… Read More

Mo Town Philly Back Again

It’s been a while since we did a Friday Hootnanny, Boys to Men…ABC..BBD…the East Coast Family, sorry I got caught up singing along while typing. This was fitting since the name of this song was the inspriration for the beer I brewed in collaboration with Sixpoint in Brooklyn. I can’t take credit for the name though, I’ll explain in a bit.

I’ve been busy with the day job and have not had time to sit down and put into words the brew day last week in a cold and rainy Brooklyn. The trip to New York to brew with Sixpoint… Read More

Providence

Do you believe in fate? Some call it providence. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. I am that way with lots of spiritual related things. This past weekend though, if there is providence or fate or even divine intervening; I possibly was the recipient of it. 
A few months back, a fellow Beer Camp brewer mentioned a unique beer event that is held each fall.  The Beer Barons to Homebrewers event held at West Laurel Hill Cemetery includes a tour of burial sites of Philadelphia brewers interred at both Laurel Hill Cemetery West Laurel Hill Cemetery led by Pennsylvania brewery… Read More

Pennsylvania Porter

Last year I read about a competition for home brewers being held at West Laurel Hill Cemetery.  It is happening again this year, and the details can be seen here.  The Beer Barons event features a tour of West Laurel Hill Cemetery, a tasting and competition. Tickets are limited and can be purchased here for $25.  The beer competition is interesting, and one that attracted me because it is focused on historical local brewers, and pre-prohibition beers. The tour features highlights of the graves of some of Philadelphia’s historic brewers. I wonder if it would be wrong to pour beer out on their… Read More

Pawssyunk Porter

A year ago I learned about the largest edible fruit indigenous to North America – the pawpaw. According to Wikipedia,
“The pawpaw, paw paw, paw-paw, or common pawpaw (Asimina triloba) is a species of Asimina (the pawpaw genus) in the same plant family (Annonaceae) as the custard-apple, cherimoya, sweetsop, ylang-ylang and soursop. The pawpaw is native to the eastern United States and adjacent southernmost Ontario, Canada, from New York west to eastern Nebraska, and south to northern Florida and eastern Texas. The pawpaw is a patch-forming (clonal) understory tree found in well-drained, deep, fertile bottom-land and hilly upland habitat, with… Read More