Irish Car Bomb Ice Cream Float

Sadly for some, my days of shooting down alcoholic beverages with the word “bomb” in the name have long since passed. However, I make an exception every year on St. Patrick’s Day with the Irish Car Bomb. There is just something so appealing about Baileys Irish Cream layered over Irish Whisky and dropped into a [...]

IPA Korma Chicken Bowl

Some people like maltier English-style IPAs. Some prefer the more resiny and hoppy American-style IPAs. Personally, my favorite is the West Coast IPA.
To each their own, right?
The other day I opened up what I will refer to as an “old” IPA. It had lost most of its, once very pronounced, Pacific Northwest hop aroma and [...]

Pale Ale Bacon Cheddar Biscuits

Cooking with beer has become a relatively new obsession of mine. As much as I hate “wasting” beer experimenting with recipes, when I stumble upon something “successful” it can be worth it.
My rule of thumb (as with most chefs), is that any recipe that calls for water is an easy opportunity to add more flavor. [...]

SF BEER WEEK: 2010 RECAP (ROUND 2)

Where were we? Ah yes, I last left off on Wednesday.
Thursday — February 11th

1. OYSTER FEST — Magnolia Brewpub — San Francisco, CA

About The Event: Magnolia’s menu featured 5-6 west coast varieties of freshly shucked oysters plus oysters prepared in other various ways including: marinated, BBQ’d, Rockefeller, in chowder and a Hangtown Fry, frisee salad [...]

SF BEER WEEK 2010: RECAP (ROUND 1)

My sincere apologies to my fellow HopPress writers and my editor, Mario Rubio, for neglecting my HopPress column. There are reasons, but this is not the time or forum to discuss them.
But the good news is that I’m back.
Last week I had the opportunity to partake in 7 of the 10 days of San Francisco [...]

SF BEER WEEK: FEBRUARY 11th Events

Unfortunately, it took me entirely way to long to post about San Francisco Beer Week. And it is almost over. My bad.

Curious about where I will be today? I’ve listed the events that I will most likely be attending (99.9% certain) on February 11th. Hopefully, I will run into some of you (my readers) out [...]

Toast The New Year With The Gueuze

True Story: The Beer Wench has an intense fascination, preoccupation … and obsession with wild yeast beers. The gueze, in particular, is my all time favorite style of beer.
Two years ago, I would have been celebrating New Years with Champagne. But that was before I discovered “The Gueuze” during a fateful visit to Chicago in May [...]

Belgian Beer Mussels

Mussels are hands down one of my favorite things to eat.
Humans have used mussels as food for thousands of years.
Mussels are particularly popular in Belgium, the Netherlands and France – where they are consumed with french fries (”mosselen met friet” or “moules frites”) or bread.

Depending on the source, mussel season is either considered to be any month ending [...]

The Hop Press Team “On Tap”

This week, I decided to write a fun little article about my fellow Hop Press featured publishers so that our readers can get to know us all better.
The question I posed to the Hop Press team was: If you were a style of beer, what style would you be and why?
Allow me to present my Hop [...]

Dr. Bill’s Belgian Beer & Cheese Tasting

This past November, all the stars were aligned and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to San Diego for the tail end of its beer week.
The gods of fate must have looked fairly upon me over those few days. I was able to meet some key figures in the beer industry as well as [...]