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Summer’s end

Around 80 million years ago, when Triceratops still browsed the plains of what wasn’t yet North America, some flowering plant species developed a new strategy to spread their seeds, encasing them in a cover – fruit – that became sweet and ta…

I brought home another locally brewed Oktoberfest beer yesterday to enjoy with dinner. This time it was the Oktoberfest from Richmond’s Legend Brewery. Legend Oktoberfest pours a deep, reddish-copper color. An easy pour creates a thick, creamy, beige,…

In this segment we re-visit our interview with Aran Madden of Furthermore and talk a bit about all the different beers he brews:

the mp3 link

This quote attributed to Ben Franklin can be seen on the bathroom wall at a well-known Washington D.C. beer bar:Beer is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy.The problem is … Benjamin Franklin never said that.What he did say, or more accuratel…

Filed under: Beer, British Isles, Food NewsA robot that serves beer? Hopefully this development turns out more like Rosie from The Jetsons than Arnold in Terminator.I found an Associated Press video introducing the world to the Japanese beer brand Asa…

More half-written stuff from my book. I hope I’m noting boring you too much with it.I want to run through the mashing scheme of an IPA brewed by Reid in 1839. The brewing log is easier to understand than many, so it’s a good one to look at more close…

The Prague Daily Monitor has a story today that the ?erná Hora brewery will open its own four-star hotel, including a beer spa, within two years. It’s not the first Czech brewery with its own hotel — in fact, the “Brewery Hotels&#8221…

There’s a certain daftness about brewers’ fondness for three letter acronym names, particularly when they’re used to make a beer seem more English than it actually is, as in Sierra Nevada ESB or Porterhouse TSB. Nothing fake about Brakspear EPA, howev…

So I am off to Asiain one week.  Sorry if I am not able to update as often as normal, but I will be fairly busy.  I have interviews lined up with several TV stations and more newspapers, mags and radio stations than I can count.  
 
First I’…