Merry Christmas!

Happy Holidays from Hess Brewing! Below I've loaded up a couple videos that should warm you up like a good holiday craft brew. So smoke ...

The Complete Guide to Opening a Nanobrewery.

Here is a little list of things you need to accomplish if you feel like you wanna open up a nanobrewery of your own. I guess it is relevant ...

New Logo Direction.

The older look. This is our newest look. As you can see we've given the logo a little bit of swagger. Some new swoops and a very fancy ...

Cold Room Set-Up

We finally got around to putting the cold room together. We got a little side tracked after finding out that we are going to have to install...

The Cold Room.

I used to enjoy twitter , n ow I am a believer. It was through twitter I came across a listing on Craigslist for a walk-in cold room for che...

Rye Imperial Stout - Experiment #1

Bottles of Rye Imperial Stout.  Hand bottling 22 ounces of beer is a very time consuming process (even with Blichmann's  BeerGun ) it ta...

Whoa, Whoa, Whoa... BOE, TTB, DEH.

Glad to say we are finally  getting our TTB paperwork out the door. We had to wait for our Seller's Permit to get approved, which ended ...

Painted Shelves

Look at our shelves. A big mess of unfinished wood and hastily organized grain bags, growlers, carboys, and other items... including our bel...

The Double-Blind Taste Test

One month ago I posted about our "Experimental" Brewing Session ; we recently dry hopped and kegged the two different IPAs. As you...

Really Expensive Beers

I was wondering what was the most expensive beer out there, and to be perfectly honest with you, it is not easy to find a straight answer. E...