Ales of the Riverwards

For your health.
This summer I brewed a handful of Gose and had enough of it to play with some variants on the base beer that I've since dialed in. I had a couple delicious Margarita Gose's from a few homebrewers lately and that brought to mind a Pomegranate margarita...

Suburb House blending, this ain't
no farmhouse I live in.
I like to try out different yeast, both Saccharomyces and Brettanomyces isolates, in fairly simple Saisons to get a good grasp on their flavor profiles and how they work. Sometimes these simple beers turn out wonderfully and the yeast really shines but...

I'll take my barrel fermented farmhouse in the can thank you very much.
It's been six months since a friend of mine handed me his end table (a dry Dad's Hat Barrel) on the steps of his South Philly home. It took quite a bit longer than I had expected to swell the barrel enough to hold beer, then brew that beer, then package...

I've tried virtually every dry hopping method imaginable in my hoppy beers over the years, in the early days I learned quickly that throwing loose pellets in carboy wasn't ideal. But over the last year or two I've cobbled some ideas from other folks...