Archive for October, 2008

Home Brew Beer: DuClaw & Ram’s Head Tavern

Its only my first weekend in Maryland, and I’ve already visited three places on my list Friday night, after a particularly lame ice breaker after work, I convinced a few folks from my my class to head out to DuClaw for some local brews and happy hour…

All-Grain Evangelist: A Beer Brewer’s Blog, The: South Beach and Beer

After getting back from vacation, and looking at the pictures, I was shocked. Man, I looked a bit on the chubby side. As a result, I’m dieting. Of course, what diet do I do? South Beach. That means no beer. How can a homebrewer not drink beer? W…

Slashfood: It’s the Great Pumpkin (Ale) Charlie Brown!

Filed under: Beer, Television/Film, HalloweenPumpkin ale is big this time of year. A good friend of mine, Bill Owens is credited with re-creating it in 1985/6, after 200 years of neglect, with his Buffalo Bill’s Pumpkin Ale. Now you see pumpkin ale al…

beernews.org: Liquor Max: Thomas Hardy’s 1994, WLV Liquors: Founders Backwoods Bastard?

Liquor Max still has Thomas Hardy’s Ale 1994 on sale from Friday. 2 bottle limit per person.
West Lakeview Liquors updated their site recently and have Founders Breakfast Stout, Founders Harvest Ale, and Three Floyds Dreadnaught, among others li…

Free Our Beer: Ted Chudleigh Chimes In

Ted Chudleigh, the Member of Provincial Parliament for Halton, recently published an article in the Burlington Post about how Ontario needs to rethink how the beer retailing system works.
Mr. Chudleigh has indicated that he will read into the record a…

The Mad Fermentationist: Dark Orange Rosemary Saison

Brew days on someone else’s system are always fun. I met Noah and Alex at a NOVA HomeBrew club meeting a few weeks back when I went to pickup my share of a bulk grain buy. Noah has a very nice keggle HERMS system, way more advanced than my little sto…

Shut up about Barclay Perkins: Oh no

Dolores has been checking our bank statements again.”Ronald, what are all these books you’ve ordered?” I don’t know why she needs to ask. Beer books, of course. She starts counting. “Eighteen. Eighteen books you’ve ordered. You have to stop. No more.”…

Belgian Beers: Belgian Beer no.276: Lam Gods

No worries. It’s not like we discover a new brewery and then just drink all their beers. Here it was pure coincidence. Another beer from Brasserie Paeleman, the Lam Gods. A dark 6.8% beer. I do like dark beers.

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Appellation Beer: Beer From a Good Home: #14 – Where in the beer world?

Think you know where in the beer world this photo was taken?
For those who get the blog via and RSS feed, the answer to #13 (with an additional photo) has been posted.
More chapters in this this non-contest are here. Meanwhile remember I’m int…