With the craft beer boom galloping around town every which way, a brush with a local brew is inevitable -- whether you're into beer or not. As a beer novice, I wanted to expand my brewing knowledge.

Any beer enthusiast can get into home brewing, but good equipment is essential. It can mean the difference between an enjoyable end product and one that you pour down the drain. At the heart of any ...

To get started brewing that crisp summer beer or black-as-night porter, you'll first need a specialized brewing container called a mash tun. A mash tun is where a brewer steeps grain with hot water to ...

I once likened the Mash Tun—the brewpub in the Alberta Arts District named for the vessel used to convert malted barley’s starches into sugars in a process called mashing—to Cro-Magnon Man on the ...

2204 NE Alberta St., 548-4491, themashtunbrewpub.com. Noon-midnight Monday-Thursday, noon-1 am Friday-Saturday, 10 am-midnight Sunday. The Mash Tun is the Michael Douglas of brewpubs. Started in 2005, ...

Any beer enthusiast can get into home brewing, but good equipment is essential. It can mean the difference between an enjoyable end product and one that you pour down the drain. At the heart of any ...

2204 NE Alberta St., Suite 101, 548-4491. noon-11 pm Monday-Thursday, noon-midnight Friday-Saturday, 10 am-11 pm Sunday. [ALBERTA STREET SALOON] Alberta's Mash Tun Brewpub differs from the standard ...