Brewer #4 was in Ohio for a week-plus, around July 4th. Driving out instead of flying meant lots of car space for some Westside bombers to share with his Cincinnati homies. The locals were NOT scared off by the strange new ideas being tried out in B’more. Sours? Weizenbock? Horse…
We bottled Tom’s Barleywine on Saturday. The other brewers chose 22 oz. ‘bombers’ for bottling, but I decided to use half liter containers (about 17 oz.) and go with plastic PET bottles. I have never used them before, but heard good things about them. They sure were easy to carry…
Last weekend Joni, our Canadian friends, and I headed to the beach for our annual Horseshoe Crab census trip. We go out onto the beach at the evening high tide and count crabs for a long term research study. We have been doing it for 11 or 12 years. As…
OK, so we have clearly made more than 11 beers. Here’s the deal. We just decided to start numbering our experimental beers in 2014. This is a marvelously complex, yet perfectly balanced Rye IPA that was aged in our rye whiskey barrel. It is being served in a few select…
We have been brewing for roughly 30 years and having a party to share it with our friends for over 20. We brew three or four different beers for the events. We try to have some crowd pleasing beers like a pale ale or pilsner and usually at least one…
This will be a fun year. We have been brewing quite often and have a lot on the agenda for the rest of the year. We brewed three nice crowd pleaser beers for the Mayfest: a Czech Pilsner, an American Pale Ale, and a Bourbon-barrel-aged Smoked Rye IPA that was…
This is it! After 30 some years, the brewers at Westside have finally made a website. If content is added at the same rate as other technical advances, you should check back here in about five years for our first update. Maybe we can do better. We’ll try.