For the record: Hopocalypse Now: Lupulin Land update.Now, good news from brewer Jared Williamson:Election Day special: ELECTIMUS! It’s sterner pointlessness … a special blend of our two ales (70-30; Elector and Hoptimus) “randallized” with Cente…
We made our final stop on our first evening in Bamberg at Schlenkerla, home of the world famous Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier and one of the big reasons I wanted to visit Bamberg.Schlenkerla is like other Franconian brewpubs in that you enter from the s…
A happy Halloween to all, especially those who are passing out candy and drinking beer. Here are my beer mug and munchies for the evening:UPDATE: A Halloween beer haiku from Beer Haiku Daily:A terrible frightAs a Halloween blackoutcuts the fridge powe…
In a city so committed to its beer it was only a minor surprise to find a chocolate shop in Bamberg turning out truffles made with beer.The smoked beer truffles at Café’am Dom are just the thing for the beer lover with a sweet tooth. Owner Maria He…
We walked across a couple of bridges over branches of the Regnitz, admiring Bamberg’s wonderful architecture along the way, before arriving at Ambrausianum Gasthausbrauerei.Ambros Michael Mahr’s family has owned the Dominikanerstrasse location for…
I spent Wednesday evening with my wife, Sandy, roaming the medieval city of Bamberg, Germany. After an overnight flight from Charlotte to Frankfurt, we snacked on a bratwurst and plastic cup of fresh Bitburger Pils at the airport rail station before b…
Well I must say I was pleasantly surprised at the good beering. What I neglected to mention is that I made it back out to the Flying Saucer after the reunion, and I tried the Kind Pale Ale from Carolina Beer. Didn’t have my book on me, but it was a go…
George Eagleson, brewer at F&M, dunks his head deep into a bushle of hops at Wednesday’s hop information session at the Granite Brewery while beer writer Robert Hughley looks on. Read about the event here.
From Oregon Brew Crew member Laurie Yadon: Widmer brewer Ben Dobler just informed us that the second batch of Collaborator Double River Doppelweizen, which was brewed on Oct. 9th, went through Widmer’s taste panel today and that “everyone scored…
From Oregon Brew Crew member Laurie Yadon: Widmer brewer Ben Dobler just informed us that the second batch of Collaborator Double River Doppelweizen, which was brewed on Oct. 9th, went through Widmer’s taste panel today and that “everyone scored…