Apparently I’m not the only one hoping to promote a healthy understanding of beer with my kids, as the good friar deomonstrates in this week’s Hopfen und Malz
Last week I continued my inter-generational quest to share my love of beer with my kids. In the course of visiting old friends we found ourselves in Utica, NY. Now Utica does not boats many genuine tourists attractions and so I managed to convince my wife to stop by the F.X. Matts brewery. The brewery and its products played a large role in defining my college education (at nearby Hamilton …read more

There are a lot of blog contests in our food channel, but many of them don’t lend themselves to beer. One which does, and which is quite timely coming as it does after Halloween and before Thanksgiving, is this one from choclatebytes. And the question is … drumroll please … what chocolate product are you thankful for?
So easy, that one, it’s chocolate stout. Many chocolate stouts, such as Brooklyn’s Black Chocolate Stout, carry that moniker not because they contain chocolate, but because they use a dark malt which resembles chocolate. More sophisticated palates than mine also claim a certain cocoa …read more