Brown ales reassure, comfort
There's nothing extreme about a brown ale. The style is conventional, perhaps even prosaic. But sometimes when you arrive home at the end of a long day, all you're looking...
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What else are you going to do with all that corn?
Because Iowa is the nation's top corn-producing state it should, in turn, produce bourbon, thought Jeff Quint, founder of Cedar Ridge Distillery, when he first began distilling vodka in 2004....
The red and the brown
Few beers are a better match for the decadent, fatty foods we eat in winter than a Flanders red ale and its close, often indistinguishable, cousin oud bruin (old brown)....
Kolsch: A beer style to fit your summery mood
Ask a brewer like Goose Island's Greg Hall or Metropolitan's Doug Hurst how he came to brew the obscure German lager style known as kolsch-style beers and you'll likely get...
Midwestern flavor in a citrus vodka
The problem with most mass-produced citrus vodkas is that they don't actually taste like citrus, says Guy Rehorst, founder and distiller of Milwaukee's Great Lakes Distillery. "They're candylike," Rehorst says....
Bridge the seasons
Biere de mars is an obscure subcategory of biere de garde, which itself is an obscure category of rustic, medium-bodied malty farmhouse ales originally brewed to nourish farmworkers in what...
Cook more than enough rice, freeze it
Cooking rice takes time. Often too much time. Brown long-grain rice takes 45 minutes. White short-grain takes half an hour. Even quick-cooking basmati takes 25 minutes. But each time you...
Keep pantries bug-free zones
There are many insects -- from moths to beetles -- that feed on and contaminate pantry staples such as grains, nuts, dried fruits and spices. But insects don't seek out...
Neglect your plant no longer
You may have seen infomercials for plant-watering systems geared toward people who lack a green thumb, travel frequently or just can't seem to remember to water their plants. The systems...
Thirsty for a taste of Hungary?
What images pop into your head when you hear "spirits" and "Russia"? How about "spirits" and "Mexico"? "Spirits" and ..."Hungary"? Chances are the first two conjured up clear images of...