Archive for August, 2008

BridgePort brew 2008 Hop Harvest fresh-hop beer

Ah, the fresh-hop beer season begins! Here’s an e-mail from BridgePort’s Karl Ockert: BP brewmaster Karl Ockert with last spring’s Stumptown Tart. “This is becoming my favorite time of year,” he said of the fresh-hop beer season. we picked up…

Hopworks Homebrew Demo Beers on tap Monday, Aug. 25th

Past Oregon Brew Crew president Bill Schneller brewed a Biere de garde for the recent homebrewing demonstration. The three beers brewed recently at the brew-your-own-beer demonstration last month go on tap today at 4 p.m.. They are: Biere de garde…

Monday Night Brewery : Atlanta, GA: Tonight We Brew!

Tonight we’re brewing another batch of our Belgian wit beer (name pending – thanks for all the feedback). Since switching from a Bavarian style hefe to the Belgian wit, we’ve made 2 batches and are very pleased with the results. All indi…

A Good Beer Blog: Book To Be Reviewed:”Taverns and Drinking in Early America”

I really shouldn’t call this a book review when I have only read the introduction. Has anyone else seen this book by Sharon V. Salinger of UC Irvine? I found it at the Fort Stanwix gift shop in Rome, NY yesterday as we were driving back from Maine. Fr…

Musings Over a Pint: Old Dominion Brewpub Closed Permanently

I was alerted to this news via DC-Beer, and it is confirmed by this posting on the Old Dominion Brewing Company website:Coastal Brewing Company has decided to close the Old Dominion Brewpub in Ashburn, VA, which the company acquired in 2007 with the a…

stlhops.com: Schlafly Documentary

I was originally going to just include this in the Friday Round-Up, but this documentary is too good to shove away in a little blurb. Give this a look and give the guy some feedback on what you think.

Schlafly Beer – Documentary from Adrian B o…

Nebraska Beer: Beer Education geared toward Women

I love Nebraska Brewing Companies Newsletters. They are always loaded with great stuff for the beer geek to read and do in the area. I highly recommend you sign up and get on the list. I pulled this event coming up off of their recent newsletter.9…

Thom’s Beer Blog: 861. John Harvard’s Toasted Brown Ale

861. John Harvard’s Toasted Brown AleI spent way too much time waiting in line for an iPhone (I’m a consumer whore!) on Thursday July 17th. After finishing up some lab work, Jadyn and I went to John Harvard’s to have some beer. I decided on the Toa…

Beer Bits 2: Question: Why don’t grocery stores sell beer making ingredients like malt extract?

Ever since I started brewing at home I have just assumed that I had to buy this special malt extract syrup at a special store, because, well it felt special to be brewing my own beer. Looking back, it kinda seems silly. Its just malt extract.My perspe…

beernews.org: RateBeer.com: Eight Years Ago vs. Now

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You’re looking at the first known record of RateBeer with a logo still visible, courtesy of The Internet Archive. This page is from July 21, 2001, and showcases the site a little …