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Barrel Aged Brett Cyser (Cider + Mead) - Recipe & Tasting Notes
Fact: Americans mostly have pretty awful taste in cider.Americans tend to like things that are overly, grossly sweet.This is bad and we should feel bad.Few things have fallen to such homogeneous...
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Barrel-Aged Sour Saison on Doughnut Peaches - Recipe & Tasting Notes
Brewery: Bear FlavoredStyle: Sour Farmhouse Ale / SaisonBrewed: 4.24.14Bottled On: 9.24.14ABV: 5.6%Life in a barrel, round two.The first thing out of my beautiful new-to-me (used) 6 gallon oak barrel...
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Kent Falls Brewing - Connecticut's First Farmhouse Brewery, and Certainly...
Website | Facebook | Twitter | InstagramWhere to Find the BeerI've been neglecting to tell you guys something, and I'm very sorry. It's exciting news. (At least for me!) News that's going to give me a...
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How to Make Your First Commercial Batch of Beer in 75 Easy Steps
As you may or may not know, I have somehow found myself a job as a professional brewer. I make the beer at Kent Falls Brewing Co, a farm brewery (Connecticut's first). It's pretty sweet! I've been...
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When Life Gives You Double-Batch Brews, Make Lemony Kettle Soured Saisons
The label art indicates in which season the beer was brewed. Wowsers!I've recently found myself in a situation that, while certainly not unprecedented, is definitely unusual. I am far from the first...
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Should Northeast-Grown Hops Be Renamed? / Brewing an IPA with Century-Feral...
Running a brewery on a real actual operating farm, complete with its own hop yard, I'm very much interested in the quality of local (northeast) hops, and putting them to the best possible use. I can't...
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What is Brett IPA Supposed to Taste Like?
When I agreed to be the brewmaster at Kent Falls Brewing Co., the first thing that Barry, the co-owner and brewery manger, told me was: "Make sure the beer is as confusing as possible. I don't care...
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Buckwheat Sour Saison - Recipe, Brewing with Unmalted Adjuncts, & Cereal...
Let's explore our memory banks for a moment. Even as hombrewers, making beer can get pretty stressful when lots of things start to go wrong. What's the worst brew-day you've ever had?If I thought about...
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There Are Too Many IPAs On the Market - Here's Why I'm Adding a Few More
Awkward Hug IPA - the first non-funky beer released at Kent Falls.It's pretty well established that there are just way too many IPAs on the market. We beer drinkers can't shut up about IPAs —...
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Why Is Gose Suddenly the Hottest Style in Craft Beer?
Watching trends can be disorientingly weird when you're deep on the inside of them. Craft beer is now so many levels down the "hyper-niche" rabbit hole that we can have little explosions of importance...
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What Should I Write About On This Blog Thing Next?
Photo courtesy of Fuj.Hello!My name is Derek. You may remember me as the guy who used to blog here on bear-flavored.com about farmhouse ales and Brettanomyces and juicy IPAs, sharing my experiences via...
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New Hats, Plus Restocked Hoodies
Hello! It's me again, Derek. You may remember me from the other week, when I was guiltily addressing the fact that I have not written very many blog posts recently, and wondering what I should write...
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What Is Farmhouse Beer? - Plus, Hoppy (Equinox) Saison Recipe
These days, I get asked this question ("what is farmhouse beer?") a lot. And by "a lot," I mean, during the occasional month in which I interact with a human being, very often that other human being...
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Popular Science Interview: What Are You Doing For Thanksgiving?
Here's a crazy thing that happened: the other day, I talked to Popular Science for a "What Are You Doing For Thanksgiving?" series, alongside a whole roundup of people way more famous, successful,...
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Barrel-Aging Techniques and Process: Second Nature Peach Sour Saison
There are a number of reasons that writing about beer for this blog has become more challenging since jumping into the commercial side of things for Kent Falls Brewing Co. Surprisingly, it's not even...
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Mixed Culture Wet Hop Saison - Hop Harvest Collaboration with the Brewery at...
The northeastern US, plucky go-getter that it is, will have a whole lot of hops in the coming years. In five years, ten years, the entire country's hop industry could start to look very very different...
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Maple Imperial Stout - Recipe & Tasting Notes
In retrospect, I guess it is a little weird how long I went without brewing any dark beers at Kent Falls. I do love stouts and porters quite a bit, and we had always intended to add them to the lineup....
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What's the Best Way to Add Coffee Into Beer?
It's always fun to think about how many people have, in their combined efforts, produced a staggering number of variations on beer throughout history. Brewers will commonly remark that few things we...
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About That Time I Ate Nothing But Fermented Food For One Year (The Fermented...
In two months, on July 19th, The Fermented Man will finally be released, so I think it's time for a little update on the book. Many of you have no doubt been waiting for The Fermented Man these last...
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My Experiences Developing the Beer Lineup for a New Brewery
Some breweries start out from the beginning with carefully engineered marketing strategies, while others take a more free-form, off-the-cuff approach to their products, based on whatever the brewer...
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Is The Age of the Flagship Beer Over?
This here marks the second entry in a loosely connected series exploring the development and evolution of a new brewery's beer lineup, and how a brewery goes about refining such a thing. Part one went...
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Catch Me At These Events for The Fermented Man This Summer
The Fermented Man will start hitting stores and releasing through online retailers next week. If you haven't yet, now is a perfect time to order yours through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or saunter on...
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The Fermented Man: Soft Release This Week, Full Availability Next Week
Over the last two years, I wrote a book called The Fermented Man about the importance of fermentation in our diets and lives, and the curious things one learns when you live off of nothing but...
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How Could Someone Live Off Of Nothing But Fermented Food?
Finally! The Fermented Man: A Year on the Front Lines of a Food Revolution is available today.Get your copy (physical or e-book) from Amazon or Barnes & Noble.Or stop by your local independent book...
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A Couple Ways You Can Really Help Out a First-Time Author
By now you've undoubtedly heard that I wrote a book called The Fermented Man: A Year On the Front Lines of a Food Revolution, and are aware that it came out several weeks ago, after a many-year journey...
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