The green frog on the left with his tankard of beer is causing a bit of kerfuffle with the Catholic church.The brownish frog on the right with a tankard of beer in his hand supplied me with a very nice lunchtime half pint today.Let’s keep beer(and fro…
So much for American Craft Beer Week. Beer people in a few cities are now taking things into their own hands, hosting their own week-long craft beer events in the near-future. Philadelphia put on one of the most notable city-wide events earlier this…
Given this, the only place left for Dogfish Head to go is back to the Garden of Eden.
The Brugse Zot jester clown gremlin thing grimaces from a beer glass
It was my birthday recently and naturally I celebrated by consuming a lot of very nice beer at various venues, with various people. We didn’t take detailed tasting notes but …
I’m not sure how I feel about this. While AB was releasing craft styles beers into the market, Miller was putting some life back into Leinenkugel Brewing Company. What unsettles me about Leinenkugel, is that from the surface they appear to be a …
This is a new series of posts on the subject of building a Heat Exchange Recirculating Mash System (HERMS). What exactly is a HERMS, you might ask? Well, to answer that, let’s start with the mash. Mashing is the process of bringing a malt and water …
They say that reinventing the wheel might be a little excessive, but I really do like it when a brewing company decides to play with traditional beer styles. I’ve never head of a red ale that would benefit from dry hoping, and it stuck out among the t…
People continue to ask where to get Russian River Pliny the Elder so I will continue to post that info here as I come across it. Liquid Solutions becomes the latest to offer up the Russian River beers for a short time online. LS might just be one o…
The Wall Street Journal had an interesting article last week about an apparently growing trend, entitled Hop Farmers Find Growth Business. Essentially it chronicles how many people saw all the stories that began last fall reporting the shortage of ho…
Apparently these American Strong Ales have been stored somewhere for a few years. Stone 8th and 9th Anniversary went on sale at Liquor Max Warehouse late last week and it appears as though the store is still in stock. Limit of 1 bottle per person.
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