The Brew Basement

Feel like getting your hands on some rare and vintage brews?
Feel like supporting a good cause?
Liquids Solutions (my favorite online beverage retailer) is giving you a chance to do both by hosting a vintage beer auction starting this Friday, May 9th and ending on Sunday the 11th. All proceeds will be going to a Parkinson’s […]

Hello fellow beer fanatics!
I seem to be getting more and more mail lately and please trust me, I’m trying hard to answer everyone somewhat timely (unfortunately I’ve been terrible about responding to comments on the site - I promise to get better there). I have just one request for you all - please keep those […]

” ..Old Stock Ale is well-designed to round-out and mellow with age. We know it’s hard to believe that this exquisite beer can actually improve, but trust us. The waiting can be an excellent exercise in self-discipline and the reward is built in… …We suggest a year’s cellaring to let the complex flavors develop, but […]

Hello everyone! I’ll be diving into the world of smoked beers this week. I’ll be examining the science behind the preservation power of smoke, posting the results of a few tastings of some famous smokey brews, and doling out a few recommendations for purchasing some brews of your own.
I thought a nice way to kick […]

One of the things that happens when you spend eight months writing on a blog is that your writing tends to get a little better. It really pains me sometimes when I read my earliest writings, and one of the worse offenders in my mind is the “What’s going on here…” page on the top […]

Sorry about the lack of updates here over the past few days.
Internet access has been a bit hard to come by in the Tucker household since I spilled a glass of water directly on my wireless router. Never fear, a trip to CompUSA tomorrow should take care of the problem!
I should resume posting tomorrow night, […]

I recently received the following email from a somewhat despondent reader:
I’ve just read your article on bottle conditioning on Brew Basement.
I wondered if you had any advice/comments on the storage of bottle
conditioned beers.
Perhaps I’ve just been unlucky, but from the few dozen of these I’ve
drunk in the last couple of years, 40-50% […]

Hello everyone. Hope your holidays went well!
You may have noticed that I’ve been posting a lot of tasting notes lately. If they’re not quite your thing, I’m sorry about that. Even before the holidays the time between me cellaring a beer and getting the notes online had grown to well over a month.  I’ve been trying hard to close this […]

Hello fellow beer geeks! After digging through my Google Analytic stats for the year, I thought it would be interesting to share with everyone what the Brew Basement’s most popular pages were. I ranked the pages according to the unique number of page views that each one received. I thought the results were rather interesting!
1. 15 Strong Ales […]

I’m trying to do a bit of catch-up here today. After posting my comparison of a cellared vintage Celebration Ale with a fresh one on Friday, I’m spending the morning writing up the formal tasting notes for both beers in my normal review format. I’m also in the middle of my research on a new series about […]