Archive for August, 2008

BeerSmith.com Home Brewing Blog: Brewing Water – Hard or Soft?

Brewing water plays a very important role in the flavor of your homebrewed beer.   Knowing the character of your local water source as well as how to adjust it to improve your beer is a critical skill, particularly for more advanced brewers.
Water …

It’s The Beer Talking: Review: Captain Lawrence Captains Reserve

An Imperial/Double IPA brewed by
Captain Lawrence Brewing Company
Pleasantville, New York USA
ABV: 8%
Glassware: Tulip
Had the Captain Lawrence Double IPA on tap at Delaney’s In New Haven. It pours a dark yellow or off orange – it is hard to pu…

Brookston Beer Bulletin: Homebrewing Rally At Anchor Brewery

Yesterday afternoon a rally for the American Homebrewers Association was held at Anchor Brewing. I stopped by to see Gary Glass, director of the AHA (and who I interviewed earlier this year for a story), along with Erin Glass and Bradley Lantham. I&#…

Sybeeritic: Beer Photo of the Day

A nice shot of one of the better Asian lagers, for today’s beer photo:

Yours for Good Fermentables ™: Pictures from a breakfast, with beer

Chef/owner Ian Morrison of The Royal Mile Pub in Wheaton, Md. produced his second-ever beer-breakfast this morning. It was a six course meal –breakfast and brunch fare– prepared with beer, and served with beer. And served at 10am!Among his comment…

maeib’s Beerblog: Peterborough Beer Festival 2008

I can get to Peterborough by bus from where I live. That’s to say I need to leave my house before 8am to get to the festival before it opens at noon. It’s a long journey obviously but armed with a good book and making occassional glances up from the…

Mikkel(ler)’s Blog: Dudes trippin’ over Hvedegoop at Dark Lord Day 08

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blogaboutbeer.com: Blog About Beer Turns One

Today, August 2th, marks the one year anniversary of BlogAboutBeer.com. When I got into blogging a year ago, I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. The site was a mess, my stories were a mess and I didn’t think I would (or should) stick with it….

beernews.org: Lost Abbey Ne Goeien Saison and Witch’s Wit go on sale at South Bay Drugs

South Bay Drugs is once again the first place that I see beers as being for sale online. Lost Abbey Ne Goeien Saison and Witch’s Wit will go on sale starting Monday along with Coronado Saison by the Sea and the Boulevard Smokestack Series. Cli…

LIQUID DIET: the blog: Stephen Beaumont ♥’s Cans; Craig LaBan talks him some smack; somebody from Orval is one of you; A-B and I outwit FedEx at last

Here’s Stephen on the top five beers in cans, one of which (surprise!) I have in my ‘frig pretty regularly. Thanks to Richard Ruch, who found it even faster than my daily Google search (I guess ’cause even Google sleeps now and then …