Starting the Modelo 75th anniversary book right now and there’s a good bit of fun detail so far. As of 1903, lager beer had firmly come to dominate the Mexican market, and is described by the Western Brewer magazine that year as “A little lighter than American beer because they use 15-30% rice.”

The Dark Lagers book is so wild. This is an objectively insane recipe for a dark bock. Just madness. It’s not even a bock. And the book was written by Germans!

Mexican 2-row seemed mildly interesting until I saw that it was 30% more expensive than domestic or Canadian. In this economy!?! I can get German pils for that price.

Dialing in mlíko and Šnyt service for our new batch of Czech-style pale lager for the first time and noticed some unexpected aspects of these pours. First off, they both yield the same amount of beer after the foam settles! Second, it’s almost exactly a full pour in a half-nonic.

RIP Ozzy. But also taking some time to appreciate the phenomenal guitar work by Randy Rhoads on the first 2 solo Ozzy albums. Taken from us way too soon in a tragic plane crash in 1982. He was one of the greats of metal guitar and we can only imagine what else they would have created together.

Kölsch is such a frustratingly vague style if you reference competition guidelines. The specs are super wide, but in reality, real and homage examples mostly really fit into a pretty tight range. Does any brewer in cologne really make a 30 IBU example? I haven’t seen it.

Enjoyed the break from beer twitter after things wound down but holy shit it’s a ghost town these days. Guess I’m doing this now.