Again, RateBeer is the center of attention today because of the hacking. A new message on the site earlier this evening made it look like they would be up and online again soon: “UPDATE: The problem has been isolated! We’re now in the p…
I hope that part of the appeal of this blog is the photography. Unfortunately this roundtable is one in which the the world conspired against us and caused all sorts of problems. First, my camera refused to recognize its lens. Chris stepped in to take…
Tonight, we celebrated our first year anniversary at as a homebrew club by hosting Bill Kroft of Marzoni’s Brick Oven & Brewing and his good friend and homebrewer Mark Dellinger. We met at 7pm at the Coney for our monthly meeting, with 11 regular…
Congratulations to the Albany Pump Station for winning the gold medal for American Style Brown at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver. Trust us, Kick Ass Brown is a well-named beer indeed. This is the third time this beer has won gold in Denv…
I’ll be honest. I didn’t do a lot of homework before heading up to Vancouver, B.C. last weekend. I got a list of venues awhile back from someone on the Oregon Brewcrew Listserv (thanks, Abe), but I could only remember a few things once I g…
Working late – choosing five to represent hopAmerican hop qualities.I’m trying to get my head straight. I have 21 beers in front of me begging to be tasted and I’m calling it work. The challenge on my to do li…
Get recent posts from my favorite homebrew blogs and beer blogs there in the sidebar. I’m thinking some people might hit my site like this.check my recent postscheck sidebar for interesting blog postsclick out to one of themNew Sidebar Sections5 Rece…
Election night here in Canada. So far most of the fun has been watching people get around the blackout law that bars transmission of election results until polls close across the whole country by posting from the UK or posting as rumours. The law is p…
I’m not quite sure how I feel about this, or whether I should laugh or cry. The Paul Frank stores around the country are holding voter registration drives between September 23 and October 20. That’s all well and good, and I applaud that e…
I’ve noticed a lot of buzz about Budweiser American Ale. As far as I know, this is the first ale with the Budweiser name. (Anheuser-Busch has brewed ales under Michelob and other brand names.) Ever since hearing about this beer I’ve been very curious …