Archive for October, 2008
Yes, this is the time of year when breweries start to tout their prestigious GABF medals. Well we’ve got a little bling of our own. Today we were named the clear victors in Adam’s “Best Homebrew Sites” contest. How did we win? …
October 14th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Monday Night Brewery : Atlanta, GA: MNB wins an award of its own
Founders is a brewery that only recently found distribution in NC, and I’m very excited that they did. I haven’t had a ton of their beers, but their Kentucky Breakfast Stout is reason enough to let them through the pearly gates of any tow…
October 14th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on SevenPack Beer Blog: Founders Dry-Hopped Pale Ale
Well, our faithful Victory correspondent Richard has just moved me a couple of steps closer to watching the Phillies/Dodgers game tomorrow night at Victory with this following note:
Well, if the ballgame doesn’t light your fire, maybe the beers will….
October 14th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Brew Lounge : Beer Tasting Brewing and Culture, The: A Victory for You and the Phillies
I should be writing my final GABF post, but instead I got really caught up in this idea of making a map of all of the beer places we’ve visited. So here it is: Map!
The page that the link above connects to should explain most of what little th…
October 14th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on The Thirsty Hopster: Thirsty Hopster Lifetime Beer Venue Map
Our second installment of The Beer Education Project at Electric Burrito fell in the month of October, and so it wasn’t too difficult deciding what angle to use to teach and preach good beer.
Oktoberfest in a Mexican joint? Yes, and it’s c…
October 14th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on brewvana: Oktober-Fiesta
Along with four breasts of duck prosciutto my two ducks also provided me with four legs for confit (using another great recipe from Charcuterie). The legs got a quick dusting with 1 oz of kosher salt along with pieces of garlic, bay leaves, black pepp…
October 14th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on The Mad Fermentationist: Duck Confit for Cassoulet
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October 14th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on It’s The Beer Talking: News: Rate Beer is down
That my strange sense of compulsion was deep and overwhelming is shewn by its conquest of my fear. No rational motive could have drawn me on after that hideous suspicion of prints and the creeping dream-memories it excited. Yet my right hand, even as …
October 14th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Pfiff!: Announcing October’s inevitably spooktacular Fermentation Friday
Liquor Max just brought in a bunch of new beer and the full list is now posted online. Here are the new additions, including Russian River Pliny the Elder:
10-14-08 – Allagash/De Proef Les Deux Brasseurs Signature Ale 750s’ – $ 16.99
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October 14th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on beernews.org: Russian River Pliny the Elder returns to Liquor Max
It was a good year at the GABF for Oregon brewers: a couple won double gold and one — Pyramid, which brews most of its beer in Northwest Portland in Portland Brewing’s former brewery — won THREE golds (one…
October 14th, 2008 | Posted in medals/awards | Comments Off on Oregon gains much gold at the 2008 Great American Beer Festival