Cutting directly to the chase, today’s target was the Badische Staatsbrauerei Rothaus, near Grafenhausen in Germany. Half an hour on a train from Basel to Tiengen, then 45 minutes on a bus that wound through Black Forest logging country before stoppin…
For the next seven plus weeks we are going to be treated to a series of negative campaign commercials that will make watching television painful. It should not be that way because for the first time in a number of presidential campaigns the country ha…
Sorry if I hooked you in with that deceptive title. My son Porter turned seven years old today and this is him just before bedtime tonight.
Porter on his 7th birthday.
Porter below an original print I picked up last year during the Sonoma County Ar…
It would be easy to forgive the F.X. Matt Brewery in Utica, N.Y., if they decided to curtail charitable giving this year after being hit by a major fire back on May 29th. Instead, the brewery has made its largest donation ever to the United Way Founda…
Britain’s T&R Theakston Brewery has decided that people who drink beer also need to have good looking skin.The North Yorkshire brewer is making a soap with a hop and olive oil base that will be launched with a campaign to select the grubbiest tele…
Craft brew really has made it across the Pacific.
This is from my good friend Peter Bowling, a business man, philanthropist, AIDS activist working in China.
Take it away Pete –
Here’s a shot of the import beer section. There used to be just abou…
I have a huge amount of bacon-related materials to share this week, and I hope I’ll get to share all of the best items before the week is out. That or we’ll have to make this an annual festival … But here’s one I’ve got …
Chad at Bottle Trek informed me tonight that he is now selling Deschutes the Dissident, arguably the hottest beer on the planet right now, with a two bottle per person limit. This is the only place that I know of that has it in stock online right now…
This is primarily a beer blog, so it should come as no surprise that Bacon Week had to eventually turn back to the juice of the barley. In this case, it’s as close as the world has yet come to true bacon beer*: Rauchbier.
Rauchbier is a bottom…
Reading this blog, you might get the impression that beer blogging is all about fancy parties, beautiful women and a flashy lifestyle. The truth is, to get those beers that the readers want to hear about, the unreleased bootlegs, you gotta take it to…