This is the month to celebrate, friends, family and of course good beer. In the spirit of celebration, RIBS will be having a members only event instead of our normal monthly meeting, sorry kids. So please continue to email us or check out this page for details on the next meeting and how you can… Read More »
I just wanted to make a quick post about the importance of a yeast starter. While I am preaching to the choir on this one, since it is universally accepted that yeast starters are important for building healthy hardy colonies and can really help your beer get off to a good start. I am also… Read More »
It has been some time since our last brewery tour, we had enjoyed the BlueHills brews at a Johnson and Wales beer tasting several moths back. So we thought we would head up to the brewery and check’em out here.
Beervana 2012 has come and gone and boy was it was a really good time. We would like to personally thank the staff of Pretty Things Brewery and Garrett Oliver for their inspirational, humorous and informative lectures. I don’t want to leave out the venders and staff members that could make Beervana such a great… Read More »
Fall is upon us and with the brisk air comes Beervana, tickets are available now at their website. They are going to offer educational seminars with Garrett Oliver from Brooklyn Brewery and Dann & Martha Paquette from Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project. Also a long list of breweries available here, hope to see you… Read More »
This is our last meeting at the East Ave Cafe then its back to Trinity Brew house. So come join us for our monthly meeting! Going forward it will be back to Thursday’s at 7pm for the meeting.
We have our first group brew bottle conditioning and I will say that for bottling we had a pretty productive day with 90 bottles cleaned and capped. The beers that we put together were the RIBS red which was an interesting blend of a red ale with Dan’s home made BBQ sauce. The second beer… Read More »
This was our 3rd year participating in Rhode Island Mini Maker Faire. We met some cool people, talked beer all day, made two batches of beer and overall had a blast! See the pics here.
Gluten-free for some is a diet fad, for others it is an a way of life. In the beer world its hard to make a good beer with out gluten, especially when dealing with wheat and barely. Celiac disease hits close to home since my sister has had it her whole life, and I personally… Read More »
Happy 4th of July everyone!