Several months ago Beer and Coding migrated hosts, from iPage back to 000webhost and apparently somewhere in the transition, I forgot to update my e-mail forwarding. I just now realized that my kevin@beerandcoding.com address has not been working properly, so if you

  That’s right kiddos, last year’s Inaugural Eugene Beer Week was such a smashing success (and a direct catalyst for Portland and Corvallis Beer Weeks – Humbleness Editor), the event is returning for a sop

If any of the three people that read this website are wondering where I’ve been for the last several weeks, let me proudly refer you to the picture below. Archer Kevin Williams was born Jan

Man, it feels nice to have my Christmas shopping done early for once. With the baby being a big, late-December question mark, my wife and I had everything bought and wrapped weeks ago. In fact, I was done so early that I almost forgot to post my annual gift guide. So, in the spirit [...]

Okay, let’s see if I can get this one wrapped up tonight. After enjoying Redhook’s Down Under Stout with a couple friends, we opened a bottle of Ninkasi’s Imperiale Stout that had been sitting in my refrigerator for much too long. Sampling these two beers back-to-back was a great way to appreciate just

As I have mentioned in my last few posts, the pregnant-ness of my wife has really cut into my drinking. And while I am enjoying the slimming waistline, I am once again experiencing the problem of having too much beer. It has filled the beer fridge. It has staked claim to a shelf in [...]

So, I’ve been at my new job as a UofO Server Admin for four days now and talk about culture shock. I have gone from working with servers running SCO OpenServer and IBM 4690 OS to an environment filled with Windows 2003/2008 systems. Being able to pick up the phone and receive immediate remote [...]

Once again the ol’ blog is experiencing a bit of a dry spell. Who knew trying to squeeze the birth of my first child into the Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Years mad-dash w0uld consume so much free time? Of course, prescribing to the go-big-or-go-home mantra, I figured why just stop there? So, after much consultation

This Saturday marks the return of one of my favorite events of last year; The Eugene Winter & Strong Ale Festival, put on by 16 Tons. Press Release: 2nd Annual Eugene Winter & Strong Ale Festival on November 19 & 20 Euge

I was trying to get this information up earlier, but I got completely wrecked by a cold at the beginning of the week and I am just now coming out the other side of it. So, here is a very short post about a couple great events happening tomorrow. First, we have the release [...]

As part of the AHA’s (American Homebrewers Association) annual Learn to Homebrew Day, Oakshire and the

I am in the process of migrating Beer and Coding to a new web host…just a few seconds away from cutting loose the databases and restoring the backups in fact. Everything should be up and running by 1:00am (11/3/2011), but if you notice any problem after that point, let me know kevin(at)beerandcoding(dot)com.

Jeff seemed to get a kick out of last year’s pumpkin, so I decided to turn it into an annual thing. I hope you enjoy…and I h

The air is crisp, the leaves are falling. The frost covered grass makes a satisfying crunch beneath my feet. Autumn has arrived in Oregon, and with the change of seasons comes the change of seasonal brews. Now one might assume, and understandably so, that this transition would signal the arrival of harvest ales, pum

Well, it appears that no matter how hard I try, there is no possible way I am going to be the proprietor of Eugene’s next brewery. Not that I’m waving the white flag on my nano-plans or anything like that. It’s just that Jason Carriere is going to beat me to it. Jason, the [...]

The Willamette Valley Fresh Hop Tastival has come and gone, but there are still plenty of beer-y things to do for the rest of October, including Widmer Flight Night at The Bier Stein and the start of

This being my first book review, I feel it is necessary to start out by admitting that I am not a book guy. I’d like to think I just don’t have the time for pleasure reading, but the reality is I just don’t have the attention span for it. After spending all day producing [...]

The nanobrewery idea is still on hold until after the baby is born, but I thought I’d share a picture of my latest project. This barrel happens to be one of the freshly-dumped, F

It looks like we have a couple beer tastings in Eugene during this last week of September. First up in a free Uinta tasting, starting in about an hour at the 16 Tons Taphouse. Joe from Uinta will be at the taphouse from 5-7pm, pouring

Sitting outside of Cornucopia, enjoying a warm evening with my wife. A pint of Double Mountain IRA, Maiden the Shade beer cheese soup. Farewell Summer…you will be missed. Cheers! Kevin

Just as I am learning to love the Falconer’s Flight hop-blend, Hopunion has decided to release a second blend in honor of the late, great Glen

It appears I completely fail at internetting tonight. I was going to start this post by referencing another beer blogger’s comment from the recent Beer Bloggers Conference about how no one likes to read beer reviews. I could have sworn the source was

Note: This is the first post in my new Going Nano series, a platform to discuss the various stumbling blocks and hurdles I encounter while attempting to go pro. Over Labor Day weekend, my salacity for session strength spirits led me to brew a beautifully-bantam British Bitter. No, it’s not going to be

There are a few tasting happening today and tomorrow around Eugene. The first, X-Mas in August, gets started in less than an hour at The Bier Stein. From 11am-11pm, The Stein will have a selection of well-aged Winter ales on tap from Ninkasi

For over a year now, I’ve had a Bock on my brew schedule. But without a proper way to lager, each time the beer reached the top of the list, it was immediately scratched out and reincarnated at the bottom. Then a few months ago, I made a couple precision adjustments to the conditioning fridge (or [...]

I just wanted to give a shout-out to Ninkasi Brewing for the wealth of information the brewery recently added to it’s website. Want to brew yourself a batch of Total Domination? Ninkasi gotchu! Your gonna need to round up some Pa

Last week, in my Beer and Coding at Two post, I stated that I would have the first in a series of Homebrew Tools done this week. I am happy to report that I have actually managed to meet a deadl

The taps are now flowing at The Union Cafe, the latest venture from 16 Tons owners Mike and Jeff. The restaurant, located at the “Woodfield St

Following an 11th hour reminder from GoDaddy to re-up my expiring domain and a frantic scour of the old grey matter for the password required to do so, Beer and Coding has now safely reached its second birthday. And with another anniversary in the books comes the near-requisite look backward and the even nearer-requisite

Tomorrow afternoon, the 3rd Annual Willamette Valley Blues and Brews Festival gets underway at Springfield’s Island Park. 100% of the proceeds from this two day music and beer festival go to the