Archive for August, 2008

Brookston Beer Bulletin: Cooking With Stone

The Beer Chef’s next beer dinner this summer will feature the “The Unique Beers of Stone Brewing Co..” It will be a three-course dinner and well worth the $85 price of admission. It will be held at the Cathedral Hill Hotel on Thursd…

It’s The Beer Talking: Review: Hacker-Pschorr Oktoberfest Märzen

An Oktoberfest/Märzen brewed by
Paulaner Brauerei (Schörghuber)
Munich, Germany
ABV: 5.8%
Glassware: Stein or pint glass
Poured from a 12oz bottle into a pint glass a very nice dark amber with a smaller head. It smelled of roasted malts and a bit o…

Lyke 2 Drink: Flying Dog Brewery Wants Naming Rights for Dog Park

Flying Dog Brewery has proposed making a $5,000 donation in return for the naming rights of a new dog park in Frederick, Md.The City of Frederick Parks and Recreation Commission is in the process of converting a park in the city into a dog park. The b…

Michigan Beer Buzz: Hey Tony, What’s Up? You Used to be Cool!

“Oh no! What have I done? I smashed open my little boy’s piggy bank, and for what? A few measly cents, not even enough to buy one beer… Wait a minute, lemme count and make sure … not even close.
– Homer Simpson
 
One place tha…

Beer Examiner: Small brewers in big brewery towns.

Is it harder for a small brewery to be successful in a city where there’s already a big brewery in town?         Independent craft brewers succeed in St. Louis, Milwaukee and Golden/Denver area. Big brewe…

Beer Haiku Daily: With Apologies…

What would you do if
I ran out of beer? Would you
Stand up and walk out….
Written by Dave Undis.
Author’s Note: With apologies to John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and Joe Cocker
Thing of the Day: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Musings Over a Pint: Post-Prohibition Beer Revival and the Chesapeake-Potomac Hurricane of 1933

Today marks the 75th Anniversary Chesapeake-Potomac Hurricane of 1933. The storm was one of the worse in history for eastern Virginia. The storm’s devastation also had an affect on the first post-prohibition beer halls in Virginia. From the Free Lance…

Great Canadian Pubs and Beer: Meet Andrew Kohnen: Hockley Valley Brewery

Meet Andrew Kohnen, brew master for the Hockley Valley Brewing Co. and producer of Hockley Valley’s four beers: their signature and delicious Dark Traditional English Ale, Stout, Georgian Bay Dipper Ale and Hockley Gold (for certain licensed accounts)…

Appellation Beer: Beer From a Good Home: Book review: Amber, Gold and Black

“I think I was the first person ever to use the phrase, ‘beer style.’ The next thing was to try to define what they were, which lots of people have done since, but I think I was the first person. But then my focus became really to ta…

beerasia: Bud Light – Genuine

They say:Brewed with the finest ingredients for a refreshingly smooth tasteI say:Tastes like regular Budweiser but with much less flavour (yes it is possible)At the end of the day normal Bud is relatively tasteless so the name Bud Light kind of gives …