Last night we made our way to the Peche Mortel sitting in the fridge; it is a Canadian monster of a stout in a 12 ounce bottle. “You wanted to drink this without me?” the wife asked. I did. She caught me pouring it. Lots of chocolate an…
The Fort Worth Flying Saucer is holding its third annual Fall Beer Festival on Saturday, October 11th, from 2pm to 10:30pm. The event will be located adjacent to the downtown Flying Saucer in the Sundance Square parking lot.Five beer tents with up to …
117 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106 [ printable map ]
(215) 625-0855
The atmosphere was very nice and the waitress was very knowledge about the beer selection. The beers are outstanding in my opinion and the food was well priced and …
Harvested my four hop plants which I feel is now some sort of hybrid Cape Cod Cascade last weekend. I ended up with about 14 ozs of dried hops that I will use in my annual Belgian-style hoppy ale, Hopage. Excited to be growing my own hops and next y…
Though the Geekness continues to build, I was caught recently in a very non-beer geek action: swilling not from a glass, much less the appropriate glass, but straight from the bottle.
I knew it when I was doing it. It felt weird, wrong. But it just se…
Frankenheim Alt from Privatbrauerei Frankenheim
Rating: A-
Enjoyed in the Dusseldorf airport during a layover.
Appearance: Enormous, thick head atop a brown, leather-coloured body.
Smell: Clean, almost lagery aroma. Not particularly malty, but with…
Today is the birthday Dan Gordon, co-founder of Gordon Biersch Brewing, which began in San Jose, California. Dan turns 48 today. Join me in wishing him a very happy birthday.
At the Celebrator tasting us his newest beer, an unfiltered Dunkelweizen.
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As some of you undoubtedly know, Lawrence Joseph Horwitz, head brewer at Iron Hill North Wales, and Whitney Damarius Thompson, brewer at Troegs in Harrisburg, ran off to Hawaii a few weeks back and got themselves married.
They had originally planned a…
So much for my very clever idea that beer rises to the top during tougher economic times if the situation at Red Stripe is anything to go by:Red Stripe, the Jamaican brewers of beer, has blamed a soft economy that slowed demand and rising cost of inpu…
As Lloyd points out at Taking It To The House, week 2 of the NFL season looks to be an early-season match-up of bitter rivals. Cleveland Browns are playing host to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
This while legendary (well, maybe, almost) Fat Heads of Pitts…