Allagash is one of those breweries I’ve been seeing more of lately. They’ve been creeping into my favorite bevys, showing up on tap at my favorite pizza places. I’ve had their white and thought it was great, and then I saw the bottle of black. Simple …
During the last few weeks I have been plowing through the records of the Brewers Association covering the hundreds of medals that have been presented since 1987. With the help of my son-in-law, Mike Worth, we took the data and tried to visualize the h…
The Brewers Association continues to add entertainment elements to the Great American Beer Festival. One of the new features this year is something called “Win Beer Stein’s Money,” a trivia game show hosted by Tom Daldorf, publisher of Celebrator Beer…
We’ve been a bit lax in getting news posted here in the last couple of weeks, and the press releases and announcements have been piling up. There are several that deserve full news posts on their own, so those will…
"This beer’s got gusto." Brewer forcefully explains hisbeer to attendee at the Great American Beer FestivalWith 1,920 beers being offered to Great American Beer Festival attendees, it’s gotta be beer heaven on earth. …
ABC has a great story on a Professor Raul Cano of the California Polytechnic State University who brought 45 million year old yeast back to life in a new beer. Cano extracted the yeast from a Lebanese weevil, which was trapped in ancient Burmese am…
Contents of the GABF brewer’s schwag bag – magazines, pen, bottle opener, and my fav, a Wahl travel beard and moustache trimmer. (Also good for ‘trimming other things’ according to package.)
After we got back from Triple Rock, Cathy and I joined the Malt Advocate staff at 21st Amendment for dinner. The place is nothing grand, just a big, friendly space with a friendly staff. Shaun and Lloyd (brewer and GM) came out and said hi, but Shaun …
…and the judging results are still being determined and kept from the public.
Not to matter.
Imbibe magazine has just chosen Saison de Hill it’s “Drink of the Week.”
Maybe Larry or one of the gang will check in and let us know…
The spinning beer bottle for this week is the Goose. Not Tony Siragusa, the enormous defensive lineman who had that nickname when he played for the Ravens, but Wild Goose, an IPA brewed by our friends in Frederick, Md.I recall some years ago when Wild…