The Beerly Blog

Welcome to The Beerly Blog, where you can follow along with our travels and experiences and get important news updates. From tasting events to road trips, festivals, home brewing and beyond, this is where we track our thoughts when we’re not writing reviews. Enjoy!

Beer Flavor Wheel

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When it comes to describing how beer tastes, adjectives are a dime a dozen. Has there ever been a defined vocabulary of taste from which to draw when considering beer? Well, sure. Recently I ran across this nifty flavor wheel over at the uber-accessible...
Home Brewing a Split-Log Porter

Home Brewing a Split-Log Porter

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The house I am currently residing in has a wood burning stove. Over the winter my roommate and I would fire it up to about 500 degrees in order to fight off the winter chill. I enjoy the smell of a burning fire. Maybe that is why I enjoy oak aged beers. Most of these...
Midas Touch Clone: Macedonian Myth

Midas Touch Clone: Macedonian Myth

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My Midas Touch (Dogfish Head) clone was the first batch I brewed and it also took the longest. Brewed with 2 lbs of honey and saffron threads during the boil, then 4 cups of grape juice concentrate added at the peak of fermentation this beer is sweet. Boasting an ABV...

Home Brewing a Maple Marzen

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This was the third of four beers I have brewed since September. Unfortunately, none of them turned out how I had hoped. Due to a mixture of getting busy and the holiday season, I was not able to devote as much time to watching these beers through the process....

Meet Tom Smillie, Homebrewer

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Over the last couple years, I’ve found that home brewers have similar reasons for taking up the hobby. Brewing provides an outlet for creativity, learning some history, connecting with a vast community of people, developing a greater appreciation for beer, or possibly...

Meet Matt Claus, Home Brewer

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I figure there are a couple of reasons behind my romance with making beer at home. I’m no food scientist, but my grandfather was. He actually was very well respected in the industrial food industry (the same industry I work in now.) His achievements were scattered...