And just like that … it’s over. Awards are handed out, and everyone come on home.
Wisconsin Winners:
American Style Cream Ale or Lager
— Silver: Hamm’s – MillerCoors, Milwaukee, WI
— Bronze: Henry Weinhard’s Blue Boar Pale Ale – MillerCoors, Milw…
Filed under: Beer, Festivals, Food NewsThe winners from this weekend’s Great American Beer Festival have been announced. With over 75 categories, the list can be a tad overwhelming, but it still serves as a handy guide to finding great beers of every …
Hey everyone. To begin, I simply MUST say thank you for all the kind words said to me during the GABF this week. Next, you’ve noticed I didn’t cover it here. Instead I kept a running blog on the DRAFT website and did a walking tour of the event with J…
Bombardier is one of those beers that just doesn’t do it for me. Kegged, casked or bottled, it’s a deceptively delicious-looking dark ruby ale with virtually no redeeming features in the flavour department. Not that it tastes unpleasant, I just find i…
The Morning After
This week has been an exercise in pacing yourself, the phrase “it’s a marathon, not a sprint” was uttered accurately many times within my earshot and I think I took it to heart. Still, no matter how well one is paced for the GA…
We’re not going to let the fact that most of the tube doesn’t work at weekends at the moment stop us from exploring. A couple of Saturdays back, we decided to go to Clapham and investigate some of the interesting sounding pubs mentioned i…
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Octoberfest bake-off
Another way we entertained ourselves during our annual get-together was to have an “Octoberfest bake-off”. Ron, Max, Don and I each brought a…
(Clayton, MO) – Another retailer enters the online fold and is the first one from the Heartland of America. The Wine and Cheese Place, based in Missouri, is spread out across a few locations, and its main competitive advantage may be lower shipping c…
The big whopper of the final day that is the double-session of GABF began for us with a belly-filling breakfast at Dixon’s. An easy-going spot on the edge of LoDo provided us with everything we needed to set a good base for what was in store for us ov…
Twickenham Struise Porter takes silver medal at the SIBA South-East awards