Some of my friends who are reading know that my feline companion of fifteen years, Zima, was not doing so well in late September / early October and, frankly, I was a little scared he might not be with us to see the new year. Thanks to a terrific …
(Bend, OR) – Your eyes do not deceive you. The picture you see above is cropped out of a label approval that came through for Deschutes Brewery a few weeks ago. According to Brewpublic, plans are to release Deschutes Mirror Mirror 2009 Reserve Barl…
It’s 9:26PM, do you know where your beer is?So I’m sitting here still recovering from my trip back to Charlotte (posts coming later), and I notice that there are a couple Marzens or Oktoberfests I have not tried that are at the house. I tried this one…
If you live in Sweden, you might manage to have 24,000 cans of beer declared “for personal use” by the authorities:The couple has detained back in August 2006 when customs officials in Malmö stopped their minivan on the way back from a trip to German…
Chow.com had a nice little article about canned beer in the craft beer industry. I think the article hit all the major points going for canned beers. Some of the beers reviewed during our “Beer Can Week” garnered a mention too.
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This is the final offering from this month’s BMOC package. We actually had a very short review of this blonde ale posted from way back when we first started the website. Suffice to say to didn’t do this beer justice, so we took down an…
Monday evening was the 10th anniversary of the Hard Times Cafe in Bethesda, Maryland. Owner Greg Hourigan —whose voice resonates with the silky tones of the radio announcer that he once was— told a packed house, to great applause, that he had open…
The absolutely insane beer dinner last night at Sycamore has left the sweet, malty taste of a Double IPA in my mouth all day. I’ll get back to that IPA in a minute, but the first point must be repeated. The beer tastings were insane. Here is the…
But it’s true. It’s not good enough that the Phillies do in fact have one of the most talented teams in Major League Baseball this year and deserve to win the World Series. The baseball gods (and, I suppose in part, the “de facto commissioner” and mot…
Ah, good news, my gemütlichkeit-loving friends: Blob’s Park will be re-opening! Open since the 1930s, and holding an annual Oktoberfest since 1947, Blob’s Park, the beloved German beerhall/garden in Jessup, Maryland, closed last New Year’s Eve. It wa…