Back in 2016 I made three blends using boxed lambic from Timmermans and Oud Beersel, along with a variety of homebrewed pale sours and sais...

Combining a casual interest in brewing history with the resources of a home-brewer provides an endless supply of recipe ideas.  The two bitt...

Since there are so many excellent IPAs and pale ales available on the shelves in Chicago, I don't find myself brewing those styles very ...

This will be the first of a series of posts catching up on notes from some batches from the past twelve months or so.  The beers in this pos...

Once I'd made the De Ranke-inspired beers and the C19th-inspired IPA , I found myself left with a lot of whole-leaf hops.  What to do w...

The recipes inspired by De Ranke XX Bitter  described in the last post weren't the only reason I had my eye out for some fresh whole-...

I think that De Ranke's  XX Bitter is for me what Saison Dupont is for many American saison drinkers: one of the beers that made me fal...