Last month, Matt and I cashed in on our Iron Brew Challenge prize, and got to help brew Super Pils at 5 Rabbit Cerveceria in Bedford Park, IL. It … was … awesome, exhausting, memorable, hilarious, fascinating, educational, and absolutely pure fun. I call this double brew day double vision. Here are two, really excited people all up in the 5 Rabbit brewhouse! Brief backstory: we entered 5 Rabbit’s home brewing … Continue reading Oh, Boil! A 5 Rabbit Brew Day
Yes, my good friend Matt Deming went to Belgium and without me even mentioning it, brought back the most coveted of all beers, a Westvleteran 12. I may have screamed aloud when I saw the label-less wonder perched upon my desk, anticipating my Monday morning arrival to work. Eeeeeeee! I tasted it on Saturday. Was it the “best tasting beer in all the world?” Well, … Continue reading It’s a Westy!
About two months ago, I was honored to participate in an event at the Brew Camp classroom, put on by Kim Leshinski of Hail to the Ale. And now, a mere 60-ish days later, I am writing about it! 😉 Kim and I met at the 5 Rabbit Iron Brew Challenge, and when my husband and I won the challenge with our mole stout, (<–a post on the subject is … Continue reading Recipe: A Belgian, Wit a Little Too Much Marmalade
This year we took our 2nd annual “Brewcation” to Michigan, and I’ll describe this year’s trip by saying that there were four breweries, three days, and two beer geeks! That was super cheesy…but accurate, so it’s cool. Matt and I decided to once again spend the weekend of his Spring Break (Matt is a teacher) in Michigan bouncing from brewery to brewery, sipping samples and collecting and … Continue reading Brewcation 2014
“Dude, what is your deathbed beer?” It’s a question I’ve seen posed in the craft beer community many times. I’d like to ask the question in a different way: What beer are you totally in love with? As in, what beer would you elope with? I would run away with and marry Perennial Abraxas. Thus, here’s a visual love letter to my betrothed beer. Continue reading Perennial Abraxas: A Visual Love Letter
There are two things that I will talk about nonstop if you let me. #1 is craft beer. #2 is CrossFit (but that’s another story for another blog). While my two greatest loves (Sorry, hubs. ;)) are often in direct conflict of one another, I do what I can to enjoy both multiple times in a week because both have changed my life in truly magical … Continue reading A Bit About Me
Worth A Thousand Beers 