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We try to be a full-service craft beer blog around here. Whenever anyone asks a question or has a request, I try to get it help in whatever form I can. Sometimes it’s easier than others. On Tuesday, I tweeted out a photo of some venison stew I made that evening. Celebrating #ACBW at home. Venison stew served & made with @Bo ...

We try to be a full-service craft beer blog around here. Whenever anyone asks a question or has a request, I try to get it help in whatever form I can. Sometimes it’s easier than others. On Tuesday, I tweeted out a photo of some venison stew I made that evening. Celebrating #ACBW at home. Venison stew served & made with @Bo ...

We try to be a full-service craft beer blog around here. Whenever anyone asks a question or has a request, I try to get it help in whatever form I can. Sometimes it’s easier than others. On Tuesday, I tweeted out a photo of some venison stew I made that evening. Celebrating #ACBW at home. Venison stew served & made with @Bo ...

The name “Rock Bridge” can mean lots of things around Columbia, Missouri. It’s a high school. It’s a state park. And for the last two years, it’s a package brewery. Dave Brouder started Rock Bridge Brewing when his homebrewing hobby turned into an obsession. The other member of the Rock Bridge crew, Stu ...

Tomorrow, the first Saturday in May, is National Homebrew Day. Several of the local homebrew shops have events planned to mark the event. A few are participating in the American Homebrew Association’s Big Brew. We’ve run down many of the events below. Saturday will be a beautiful day to relax, not worry, an ...

Spring is here, spring is here. Life is skittles, and life is beer. Sorry, a song’s stuck in my head. Smitten is another hop-forward rye beer that does a disservice to the flavorful grain addition by hiding it behind a pile of hops. It’s still a good beer. Glistening and a clear, deep gold in my Bell’s tulip gl ...

Off Color Brewing is up in Chicago. I don’t know much more than that. Other than they apparently like to diss on Jeremy Danner. They made this little beer named Troublesome. I dig it. I like the labels. And I have an art degree … so, you should listen? It smelled spicy, like coriander. And tart, like a Berliner Weisse. A ...

Cooking and beer and memories of Belgium occasionally meet a euphoric point in our kitchen. This night we were preparing chicken suprêmes, a dish of halved chicken breasts and asparagus in a cream sauce. While the recipe called for white wine, we substituted Boulevard Long Strange Tripel and it performed majestically. And left ...

While we strolled thru the Missouri Beer Festival in Columbia last month, we were struck by the number of new breweries popping up. Kansas City has had five breweries open in the last several years. And now Columbia is having a surge of new package breweries. Rock Bridge Brewing opened just over two years ago. And now there are three ...

After a year away, Deschutes is setting up Base Camp in Kansas City in 2014. Camp runs from Monday, May 5 thru Friday, May 9. The events are numerous this time around and there might be something for everyone. Lots of games, a homebrewers’ night, a beer dinner, a build-your-own-kegerator event and … burlesque? ...