Archive for July, 2008
McMenamin’s historian Tim Hill at the recent Drink Tank at Hillsdale Pub. McMenamin’s has the history and the company historian, in the form of the erudite Tim Hill, who started working with the brothers when they were reviving the Crystal…
July 24th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on History by the Glass, New McMenamin Series Starts Mon. July 28th
McMenamins historian Tim Hill at the recent Drink Tank at Hillsdale Pub. McMenamains has the history and the company historian, in the form of the erudite Tim Hill, who started working wiht the brothers when they were reviving the Crystal…
July 24th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on The Beer Here – OregonLive.com: History by the Glass, New McMenamin Series Starts Mon. July 28th
Note: as I was only able to hang around this year’s Indiana Microbrewers Festival for a couple of hours, I decided to recap the best way I know how: lazily.Best Indiana beer: the Green Tea Pale Ale from Brass Monkey. Slightly citrusy, really refreshin…
July 24th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Hoosier Beer Geek: Indiana Beer Week – Day Six – Indiana Microbrewers Festival – Kelly’s Best-Of List
One liter of Augustiner, Munich. Photo ©2008 Charlie Papazian A German journalist once interviewed me for a German beer story. She prefaced her questions: “Back in Germany, I find that many Germans know nothing about the US-beer cult…
July 24th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Beer Examiner: German beer, the purity law and the perfect beer.
Until now, it’s been somewhat difficult to go back into the past and look at the beers we’ve blogged about or broke the news on. That becomes much easier now with our index, something just about any blog should have:
BEER INDEX
This week…
July 24th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on beernews.org: Digging into the vault: the new beer index
We were all set for dinner. The table was being set, the food was almost done, I just needed to grab a drink and my duties were all but finished. That’s when I noticed, I was out of beer.
Coincidentally, my wife was making a quick run to …
July 24th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Brewed for Thought: She Likes Me, She Really Really Likes Me
It was another great evening: perfect weather, lots of interesting people, good food (more on that later) and brilliant beers from Oregon’s finest. Fred Eckhardt always has fans around him, such as this gent, who got the master to sign…
July 24th, 2008 | Posted in beer characters, beer festivals, General Beer Chat, Life in Beervana | Comments Off on 2008 Oregon Brewers Guild Dinner photos
It was another great evening: perfect weather, lots of interesting people, good food (more on that later) and brilliant beers from Oregon’s finest. Fred Eckhardt always has fans around him, such as this gent, who got the master to sign…
July 24th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on The Beer Here – OregonLive.com: 2008 Oregon Brewers Guild Dinner photos
July 24th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on My Beer Pix: I’m at the Rogue Ales Public House in Portland (PDX)
July 24th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on My Beer Pix: Nice taps!