Glasses Half Full: What Beer Goes With What Glass?
It may occur to you the next time you step into a taproom, that the standard pint 16-ounce “shaker” pint glass so closely associated with drinking a beer in America is not what’s being filled at the tap. Tulip glasses, stanges, snifters, flutes, Imperial or Nonic pints, pilsner glasses, thistle glasses, Spiegelau IPA glasses, weizens, […]
Some Like It Hot: How to Pair Your Wings With Beer
My fiancé and I recently started watching a show called “Hot Ones” (created by Christopher Schonberger and produced by First We Feast and Complex Media), that involves celebrities going through a gauntlet of eating wings with various (10) hot sauces of increasing Scoville levels. (The Scoville scale is a measurement of the spiciness or “heat” […]
Life in a Brewery Town
As someone who has grown up on the Shore, who has seen firsthand how a brewery changes a place and has now lived in two towns with a brewery, I can say that having one in your community completely alters the pace and profit of life. I grew up in Salisbury, Md. but now I […]
Rosé (Beer) All Day
Summer is finally here, and for the past few years with increasing popularity the drink of the season is rosé. Drinking the delicate pink wine conjures images of warm summer afternoons, outdoor lunches in sidewalk bistros, beach-side bonfires and naturally, brunch. Bottle shops and wine stores can’t seem to stock enough of it. The hashtag […]
Can Releases: A Social Beer Phenomenon
It’s early, very early, in the morning, and you’re driving through town to pick up some groceries. Suddenly, there are cars backed up down the street—hundreds of them. They’re parked on curbs and piling into businesses’ lots. The license plates are from a panoply of states. All the owners of these cars are already lined […]
