Happy Holidays!
From all of us at the Rhode Island Brewing Society we want to wish you a happy safe holiday season.
Category Archives: Beer General
Meeting Update
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 »
Yeast Starters
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 »
BlueHills Brewery
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.
In Beer We Trust.
Every two years, in the waning days of the fall we hear the constant political drumbeat assaulting our brains through every channel possible. Some years it’s louder than others. This year it’s like having your head between the double kick drums of Lars Ulrich back in the days of Master of Puppets. Some of you… Read More »
Beervana, ahh the fuzzy memories.
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 »
Almost there….
Beervana is just a few short hours away and as I sit at my desk trying to avoid work I keep thinking to myself: ‘self, you should really take notes this time so you remember what beers you drank’ But then I know in the back of my head that I’ll probably forget the notebook… Read More »
Beervana 2012
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 »
Of Raccoons and Wort.
Gather round folks and I will tell you a cautionary tale. On the Sunday evening past I decided it would be a great time to brew up Northern Brewer’s Coffee Stout Porter which was shipped to me in a pleasant error. The box had been delivered, which I had been waiting on for a whole… Read More »
Meeting update!
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.