Does Cask Beer Make You Farty?
This weekend I plan to help with the stillage of some 40-plus casks of beer that will be the main attraction a week later at the Chicago Beer Society’s Day of the Living Ales event. About 400-500 attendees are expected over the course of two sessions. All kinds of great beer will be dispensed through natural carbonation [...]
Ricotta and IPA, for the Holiday
It’s President’s Day, and I have nothing special prepared. I won’t buy furniture today, but I will take the kids for ice cream. Perfect occasion to direct readers to a couple of my favorite blogs. It’s Not You, It’s Brie posted late last week a visit-the-cheeseroom piece on a New York ricotta maker. Make sure you have [...]
Meet Monte Enebro
It’s time for another installment of I Never Met a Cheese I Didn’t Like, and today we visit our Spanish friend Monte Enebro. Spain is among the warmest, and most rugged of the important cheese producing nations of Europe. Subsequently, its cheese tradition includes a good number of cheeses made from goats milk, sheeps milk, [...]
