Archive for August, 2008

Potable Curmudgeon, The: SHINE on at Mellwood Arts, tonight.

My friend and business consultant Gregg and his wife Maria are opening a new business in the Mellwood Arts Center. It’s called Shine, and it’s all about yoga, movement, massage and family music.Tonight was supposed to have been the grand opening of Sh…

Potable Curmudgeon, The: That’s as Belgian as it gets.

In preparation for Barack Obama’s acceptance speech, I assembled an impromptu snack plate: A wedge of Capriole herbed goat cheese, a fresh garden tomato, a cold hardboiled egg with a pinch of salt and paprika, and some of my friend John Click’s fa…

Michigan Beer Buzz: Summer’s Last Hurrah

The Labor Day weekend is here.  Since Labor Day has come to mean the end of summer it also means the end of the summer festival season. I prefer Fall so I am not lamenting the end of summer. Fall is brewing on the deck, football, sitting by a fire, …

Year of Beer: #357 Leffe – Blond

Leffe is brewed by InBev the new owner of Anheuser Busch, expect to find this beer showing up on store shelf across the country. There is a light aroma of Belgian spice, with a hint of honey. The color is a light orange and very clear. The head pour…

Pfiff!: …Baby

In honor of the potential for a wave of change in this country through an inevitably invigorating change in our political leadership, one that we and future generations will quite possibly trace back to tonight, I thought it only appropriate to share …

Mississippi Brew: Radio interview with Lazy Magnolia’s Owners

An interview of the Hendersons with Malcolm White on the “Mississippi Arts Hour” radio show will play this week:Saturday, Aug. 30th 11:00am-12:00pm on Miss. Public Broadcasting’s statewide HD radio network (or stream online at www.mpbonline.org)Sunday…

blogaboutbeer.com: Run of the Mill, Saco Update

I know that many people have been coming here over the last few weeks looking for information on the Run of the Mill brewpub in Saco, Maine which opened just a few weeks ago. And if anyone has been there yet then I’m sure you know that, despite …

beernews.org: Struise and Portsmouth Brewery to blend Kate the Great and Black Albert into ‘Kabert’?

(Lovell, ME) – It’s not April Fools as far as I know, but if it was April 1st nobody would believe it. Ebenezers Pub Owner, Chris Lively, announced on Beer Advocate earlier today that Struise, at some point this week, took a trip down to Port…

TheBrewClub.com: Blue Tongue Brewery Premium Lager

The Brew Club is very happy to present a guest beer review from our Australian friend “Coops”!  We think its great that people from around the world are willing to share their beer views with us here at The Brew Club!  Hopefully, we&#821…

BEERJANGLIN’: CNN Brew

Item!Something unusual that I came across at The Onion’s blog about the Democratic National Convention.It appears that CNN has taken over a local Denver tavern, naming it the CNN Grill (at least according to the blog, and since this comes from the dea…