July is typically a slow month here at KGB Files Headquarters, and this month is no different—for the KGB officers.  But comrade Andrew Elliott has begun what promises to be a very interesting series of articles in which he sets us up to inundate next year’s slate of Big Batch Brew Bash judges with an onslaught of hop-dominated black ales.  Check it out in this month’s KGB Files.

Oh, and a belated “Happy Independence Day” to you, comrades.  Brew free or die!

And “End the Fed!”