Recently I asked a couple of friends of zoowithroy.com if they would want to come in to design, brew a beer, and enter into a competition amongst each other. Those friends were Ryan @petzrawr, Craney @cranekicker, and Alexandra @Alex_Reardon. Petz brewed a Czech Pilsner and naturally named it @petzrawr Pilsner, Alex will be brewing a Bock and naturally she called Instigator because she starts [...]

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There are few days in the brewery that are as fun as when you get to taste a beer out of one of your aging barrels.  Cabernet barrel, bourbon barrel, bourbon barrel with vanilla beans, Sauvignon Blanc barrel spiked with some kind of delicious, funky, sour, Belgian love.  It doesn’t matter, they are all fun.  It [...]

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Click here for more information on the Keystone K-9s Search and Rescue group and the “Give 20″ coupon from Iron Hill to present at the fundraiser.

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  It has been a while since I updated my blog.  I am sorry for the lack of news, but brewing during the busiest time of the year got the better of me and I slacked on my updates.  I’m back now though with a lot of news on what’s been happening in the brewery. Introducing our [...]

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About 2 weeks ago our Head Chef Dave Foster and Mug Club member Jason Uhl joined me in brewing “Rojo Grande”.  Rojo Grande is an Imperial Red Ale that weighs in at 7.5 % alcohol, is medium bodied and has fresh citrus and perfume aromas and flavors.  Simply put, this is a big hoppy beer.  On Friday the 18th [...]

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So for the past 3 years I have hollowed out a pumpkin, filled it with beer and hammered a tap into its side.  I am always afraid that the pumpkin is going to crack and beer will spill everywhere.  I present exhibit A.  While tapping last years pumpkin (which weighed in at 168 lbs.)  I [...]

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It never ceases to surprise me that Pumpkin Ales are so popular.  I’m pretty sure that is how I got my Dad into craft beer.  I would hear “Hey, if you are coming up to visit can you bring some of your Pumpkin Ale with you?”…..in February.  I would have to explain to my Dad [...]

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One of our most popular beers is Oktoberfest.  It’s a traditional German festival beer.  It’s a  full-bodied deep amber lager and has a wonderful malty and bready aroma and a firm malt flavor, balanced with mild bitterness and a clean dry finish.  I’m shocked every morning after we put it on tap because the level of [...]

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Part of being a Brewer is dealing with things breaking.  We push our equipment pretty hard and things break.  You make the best of it and keep brewing until your parts/technicians show up and things get back to normal.  We had one of these issues a couple of months ago when our boiler shut down on us in the [...]

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