Tracy and I have been to a couple of Sacramento Brewing Company’s beer dinners and have been impressed each time. For one, there’s just no getting around the fact that Peter Hoey makes great beer. Add to that these dinners start with the beer and you …
This package was originally supposed to arrive on Friday, but unfortunately the FedEx guy showed up before my lunch time and I wasn’t able to be home to accepted the package. So my poor beer had to sit in a hot truck all day on Friday and the…
Well, the nephew and I brewed the clone of Knot Stock Ale, and we got the following numbers:
OG: 1045. I collected about eight gallons of wort, and wasn’t paying attention. I should have boiled for an hour and then started the hour long hop addition…
The newest issue of TAPS: Canada’s Beer Magazine was recently released just in time for the Toronto Festival of Beer, complete with a new sleeker look and feel.Gone are the paintings that graced the covers of the two previous issues, replaced instead …
Double Mountain Brewery & Taproom owners Matt Swihart and Charlie Devereux at the Highland Stillhouse as they tap cask versions of both Hop Lava and India Red Ale, along with some of their fine Pilsner summer seasonal. 5 p.m….
Double Mountain Brewery & Taproom owners Matt Swihart and Charlie Devereux at the Highland Stillhouse as they tap cask versions of both Hop Lava and India Red Ale, along with some of their fine Pilsner summer seasonal. Chartlie Devereux…
If there’s no Magners, Bulmers will do
After leaving The Vermont Pub & Brewery, Jadyn and I walked around Burlington for about half-an-hour longer until we felt like dinner. We had dinner at Smokejack’s on Church Street. We had some very tasty fried curds as an appetizer. Jadyn had …
The Economist takes note of real ale’s resurgence in the UK, thanks in large part to the efforts of CAMRA:
Sales of real ale have bucked beer’s downward trend. According to TNS, a market-research firm, the volume of real-ale sales has grown by 3% ov…
I’ve been on an IPA kick of sorts in the old homestead the past couple of weeks. Near perfect August weather will do that to a man I suppose. Cool mornings and evenings along with cloudless skies made the past couple of days a great weekend. Wha…