Medieval Brewing Recipes: Find the Sources
It’s amazing to me how many brewers ask me where to find medieval brewing recipes for beer, mead, whatever . Let’s start with some basics. When you’re looking for documentable [..]
Category: Beauty In Beer
Harpoon Brewery: Various and the Four Saisons
We felt like rock stars. When the Beer Bloggers’ Conference arrived at Harpoon Brewery in Boston this summer, we were quietly ushered away from the rather impressive stream of visitors [..]
U.S. Beer Blogging in five minutes or fewer
Ring, ring. It’s two days before I leave for vacation in Ireland and Scotland. I’m ending the trip with the European Beer Bloggers’ Conference in Edinburgh. I brim with anticipation, excited as [..]
Finding beer in Montgomery County, MD: the County as distributor
Which beers can you find in Montgomery County Maryland? How do you know? Why do we care? Why is finding beer (if you care about which beer) so hard? I’ve lived [..]
What is the beer that’s brewed under the sea? Sunk Punk!
Brewdog is a Scottish brewery/beer bar chain that is controversial (and wildly successful) in Scotland. They’re lively and funny and they make painfully hoppy American-style beers. They use 100% Scottish [..]
8 New Beers I Love (BBC13 Favorites)
I thought to myself, great, you’ve just had this intense experience tasting 55 or so new beers over the course of a weekend at the Beer Blogger’s Conference, but what new [..]
Beer Where Glass Can’t Go: Steel Growlers
Summer’s not over yet, so you should know about this – there’s a way to take your homebrew to places that won’t let you bring glass. Hydro Flask makes steel growlers – [..]
Ireland, Scotland, and Bloggers, Oh My!
This woman’s first real Irish Guinness is imminent, be prepared for the ground to shake. I’m going to Ireland for a week, my first time there, and then off to Scotland for [..]
Bochet Mead (Ever Try Caramelized Honey?)
You can imagine my extreme hesitation at the idea of making a bochet mead. I am a cold-method meadmaker. I heat water as little as possible to mix with the must, [..]
Run Up to European Beer Bloggers 2013: the Pub Crawl
In about six weeks I’ll be in Edinburgh for three days with more than fifty beer bloggers from the U.K. and across the Continent. I know, poor, poor, pitiful me. [..]
What’s In A Beer Name?
Clever beer puns are all the rage, and bonus points if you can get the word “hop” sandwiched in there – Hops of Wrath, Hopsecutioner, Hoptimus Prime, Hoppy Ending, Tricerahops, [..]
Semper Fi. Why isn’t the Tun Tavern in this year’s Homebrewer conference?
First thing, let me put in a plug for the American Homebrewers Association conference June 27-29 in Philadelphia this summer. The theme is “Brewing Up a Revolution.” Just ’cause [..]