I recently posted about the one-gallon beermaking kits by Brooklyn Brewshop, designed for those tiny kitchens in New York City. Despite having most of the equipment already, I went ahead and ordered [..]
Germany’s “purity decree”, the Reinheitsgebot, has had American brewers in awe for years. It is seen as the highest standard for beer, German beer as the purest in the world. There [..]
Baltimore Brew Festival hosted a Gruit Ale competition last night. I asked whether they would post their recipes on their website – don’t have an answer yet. One of the [..]
This past Sunday, NPR’s radio show The Splendid Table included Dr. Pat McGovern talking about King Midas’ funerary beer (a modern adaptation is Midas Touch by Dogfish Head). You can [..]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/22/john-lewis-poem-gillian-clarke This poem is part of a window display at the Cardiff branch of department store John Lewis. In the midst of our color-blazing, air-chilling autumn, when I am planning [..]
I had the opportunity to review homebrewing laws across the country for a Women in Homebrew event this weekend. The differences are pretty interesting. Maryland Homebrew, one of my local [..]
I have a desperate fascination for ancient wines, beers, and meads. I love everything about them – trade patterns, methods of making and storing them, recipes, social usage, storage/presentation vessels, [..]
It’s Baltimore Beer Week! And there is some homebrewing action, boy howdy! Maryland Homebrew sent out an email with so many events on it that I’m not going to post [..]
The Great American Beer Festival held its awards ceremony today. DelMarVa-DC was well represented. Congratulations to our local breweries-done-good! For those of you who don’t know GABF, it is the [..]
I’ve been getting a lot of pings from people looking for the names of all the dwarves in The Hobbit. This is probably going to be the #1 pub quiz [..]
Brooklyn BrewShop’s Beer Making Book is my latest find in the domain of beer brewing. I’ve added it to my Basic Brewers Books list. It’s designed for folks who a) [..]
Widmer Brothers Brewery (Portland, OR) and DRAFT magazine have pooled their talents to create a series of beer-art-live-music one-off events around the country called Explore Your Craft. This year DC [..]