Friday night was Homebrew mania for sure. I am good friends with the crew over at Keystone Homebrew and they were hosting their annual Keg Only Homebrew competition last Friday. Let me tell you, this is a great way to spend your Friday night. Homebrew…
Though no one has yet jumped up to the plate and grown a mustache to heal an ulcer (All we need is 8 or so mustaches, people, let’s DO THIS), the Mustaches for Ulcers movement has been gaining traction. Here are the ground rules:
We only need 7…
Yo, yo, yo! This Friday we are hosting a release party here at IHB North Wales. We are releasing the second beer in our “Hawk Presents” series. We are calling it Hawk’s Vengeance. It’s a Belgian Double IPA and it will knock y…
Last Friday night (18th) almost turned into one of those “wow, the sun is coming up!” nights…I successfully dodged a major hangover by using my new favorite weapon in the battle on bad decisions, the train! Patric Jones and the crew…
I was disapointed with the beer selection this year at Artscape. All I saw at the beer stands was Coors, Killian and Blue Moon.Artscape is supposed to be a celebration of local arts and crafts, but this year the craft of making good local be…
Date: 07/21/2008 11:46 AM
By CHARLES FORELLE
The Wall Street Journal
GHENT, Belgium – Amid all the patriotic tub-thumping about the recently sealed takeover of Anheuser-Busch, maker of all-American King of Beers Budweiser, by Belgian-Brazilian InBev,…
In his Op-Ed piece in the Washington Post two weeks ago, George F. Will used the (at the time) as yet unaccepted offer from InBev for Anheuser-Busch as seen in Investor’s Business Daily as a lead-in to meander from beer as a staple, to beer as e…
New Hampshire-based Pennichuck Brewing will be releasing for the first time in bombers its award-winning The Big O Oktoberfest Lager later this year. The beer has a very light (imported) hop profile: Czech Saaz, Hallertau-Hersbrucker, Nugget and Tet…
Another very specific post today. I just hit a rich seam in the Whitbread Gravity Book. Loads of Stouts, all analysed on September 3rd 1959. The beers came from an array of regional breweries across the Midlands, North and Scotland. A couple are even …
It’s all over?That’s how I felt Sunday afternoon, after a week of beer drinking events, concerts and weekend visitors in my apartment. I don’t think I’ve been this active since college! Mrs. Chris2 and I decided to rest and recover with a very…