Congrats to our local GABF Winners!
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 [..]
Category: Events
Explore Your Craft in DC with Widmer Bros.
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 [..]
Women of Homebrewing Unite! Event Oct 16 2012
I just got this very intriguing notice from Maryland Homebrew Warehouse, one of my local esteemed homebrew supplies. They’re having a women’s event that’s a benefit for the Women’s Law [..]
Brewers’ Roundtable at this weekend’s event
For you medievalists who might be able to actually attend, and all you crazy brewers who like getting together with other brewers to see what’s shakin’, may I recommend this [..]
Happiness is a Real Ale Fest
Yesterday’s beer fest at DuClaw Bel Air was exactly the kind of tasting festival I most enjoy. First, the weather was lovely, or what passes for lovely in this part [..]
DuClaw Real Ale Fest is gonna be Fun Fun Fun
I was really looking forward to the DuClaw Real Ale Fest in Maryland on Saturday. 21 breweries, free food, and a band, DuClaw’s own brand of humor. Besides, they let [..]
Beer Bloggers Conference #6: Live Blogging Madness
Indianapolis, July 2012 The format is pretty simple. A room of 120 beer bloggers seated at tables of six to eight people, laptops live. One or two reps from each [..]
Medieval Summer Camp and thinking about beer
I’m back home from medieval summer camp (where I and ten thousand of my closest friends re-create camps and life in different eras prior to 1600 AD, complete with battles, [..]
Beer Bloggers Conference #5: Leinie Lunch and Indy Microbrew Fest
OK, gang, I am about to leave for ten days of Medieval Summer Camp where I will be a very very busy bee. Brewing-wise, I’ll be competing in the Interkingdom Brewers’ [..]
Beer Bloggers’ Conference #4: Garrett Oliver and Spiegelau
Garrett Oliver is a beer god. We all know it. It’s not enough that he was the first brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery’s brand new, heroically placed plant in the heart [..]
Beer Bloggers’ Conference #3: Trade Show and Julie Herz’ keynote
Beer Bloggers Up to This Point…bloggers meet in Chicago for dinner at Goose Island and pub crawl, then take a bus to Lafayette Brewing for lunch. Last Friday afternoon our bus [..]
Beer Bloggers Conference #2: lunch at Lafayette Brewing Co.
What do you get when you pour 40+ hungover beer bloggers onto a big touring bus at 8:30 am and carry them five hours across country? A subdued but cheerful, chatty [..]