Via Make, Black Star Co-op will be hosting a beer social in Austin. Sounds like a great event, and even greater that it was featured on Make.
The intersection of beer culture and maker culture is alive and well. Aside from the obvious (brewing your o…
First beer of the evening, back in Amsterdam yesterday, was a bottle of Parlus Magnificum from the Urthel range. This is dubbel-like in flavour and taste with a plummy aroma and sharp yeasty fruitiness on the palate. Not the most flavoursome brown Bel…
I can’t get enough sour beers lately, and usually when talking about sours you hear Russian River… Cantillon… even Lindeman’s. But do you ever hear about Hanssens? I don’t think I would have any time soon if it weren’t for a mention of it by Ric…
As I mentioned in my previous post, I spent the first few days of this week at Affiliate Summit East in Boston. Monday was the longest and most grueling day of the conference and when it was over my co-worker Nate and I were in desperate need of a bee…
This makes a great deal of (marketing) sense in light of the emerging fight for somebody to don the mantle of America’s beer now that Bud belongs to them dirty furriners. I’ll certainly want to try it out for the sake of nostalgia but doub…
My nephew asked me to teach him to brew. So we are going to brew today.
A month or two ago, The Brewing Network interviewed the head brewer at Furthermore Beer, and in the course of the interview, their Knot Stock Ale was discussed. They add 40 poun…
This over-the-top “instructional video” just goes on and on:
Is this an attempt at a viral ad, or actual in-house material?
The running has been great and the beer tasting even better. This has been one heck of a summer for great craft beer here in Philly…and beyond. But the dog days of summer here in August are doggin’ me with a bunch of work that I’m doggedly trying to…
Friday night in the cellar #2: Sharp’s Total Bastard
Cathy and I drove up to Toronto Thursday afternoon, and after a horrible experience with downtown traffic (due largely to, of all things, a Buffalo Bills game a block from our hotel), we finally got settled in and walked up to Volo for a restorative s…