From home brewer to pro brewer
This is a guest post by William Gardner. He’s a professional brewer working for Madison Brewing Company in Vermont. He’s originally from Hoosick Falls, NY and has been a reader of “Beer Nut” since...
View ArticleHop growing and brewing with unique ingredients
This is another guest post by William Gardner, who wrote the From Home Brewer to Pro Brewer piece in January. In this blog, he continues his discussion on life as the co-owner of a hop farm as well as...
View ArticleHops, Hemp, and Homebrew (an update from William Gardner)
Hello again! It has been a while since my last blog but I will surely make up for it with this entry. I have a ton to talk about so let’s get rolling. Hops! The hop yard is alive and thriving. The...
View ArticleBrewer Will on his hop yard, brewing with maple sap, session IPAs and a...
This is another entry in a series of guest posts by William “Brewer Will” Gardner who brews professionally at the Madison Brewing Company in Vermont. Hop Yard Happenings We are approaching the middle...
View ArticleBrewer Will Week: HopRidge Farms update
It’s been nearly four months since the last guest post by William Gardner of Madison Brewing Company of Bennington, Vermont. He supplied me with a long update blog on a variety of topics. Instead of...
View ArticleBrewer Will Week: The Breakfast Porter
This is part two of a four-part series of guest posts by William “Brewer Will” Gardner of Madison Brewing Company out of Bennington. You can see all his previous posts here: The Brewer Will Archives....
View ArticleBrewer Will Week: The “JU-C” Double IPA
Ok, I covered the Session IPA in a previous blog so it’s only appropriate I chat about the other end of IPA’s right? Actually, I recently developed my first DIPA for Madison Brewing Company dubbed JU-C...
View ArticleBrewer Will Week: Barrel-aging beer
I promised to chat barrels in my last blog so let’s talk barrels. I currently have 5 barrels of my base porter sitting in Heaven Hill, Jack Daniels, and Woodford Reserve barrels. Aging beer in barrels...
View ArticleI’m Brewer Will and I have a passion for beer
Greetings! For those who haven’t had a chance to read my guest posts here on “The Beer Blog”, I am William Gardner. I brew professionally for Madison Brewing Company in Bennington, VT, am co-owner of a...
View ArticleAn introduction to Hop growing workshop
Ever considered growing hops? Wonder what it actually takes to get started? The folks at the Carey Institute for Global Good are holding a workshop via their Helderberg Brewery Incubator program. The...
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