I have a little trouble getting my bearings when it comes to clone recipes, so maybe I should just keep my mouth shut. These things, after all, are facts:
- People buy “Brew Like a Monk” or “Brewing with Wheat” because they want to make a beer just like Chimay White or Schneider Aventinus, and I [...]

New Belgium Brewing brewmaster Peter Bouckaert will be the keynote speaker at the 2007 American Homebrewers Association National Homebrewers Conference June 21-23 in Denver.
Vinnie Cilurzo of Russian River has also signed on as a speaker, so the conference obviously will have a little something for those interested in brewing Belgian-inspired beers.
Conference information.

OK, that was humbling.
Since you are at this site you probably know I wrote a book about brewing Trappist and abbey style beers. And if you read the book you know that I came back from Belgium pounding my fist – on the desk, on corked bottles, on old brewing texts, just about anywhere – [...]

In the introduction of Brew Like a Monk I wrote there is no “i” in sugar to make the point that when American brewers and Belgian brewers talk about “candi sugar” they aren’t necessarily discussing the same product.
Quite simply, Americans didn’t understand what the Belgians use because it wasn’t sold in the United States. That [...]

Note: The past two days we’ve “strip searched” the bronze and silver medal winners in the Belgian-Style Abbey Ale category at the 2005 Great American Beer Festival. Today we go for the gold.
Just two weeks ago, Southampton Publick House brewer Phil Markowski was quoted in this space about the use of sugar in brewing Trappist/Abbey [...]