Beer with Strangers podcast Episode 74
What follows are the show note for the weekly Beer with Strangers podcast. Feel free to follow along on Storify at SOTB. We try and get the show notes posted Wednesday for our Friday show. [View the story “Episode 74” on Storify]
Generosity among brewers
Jason Weissberg of Assawoman Bay Brewing Company always has been a gracious host, so it was no surprise that we had such a great time at the OCtoberfest brew day. In case you missed it, the local brewers teamed up with Doug and Shawn from Xtreme Brewing in Laurel, Del. to produce two homebrew-style beers for […]
Selling craft beer well
It took a little doing, but on Oct. 24 Ocean City will put on its first beer festival featuring exclusively local beers. To celebrate the fact, several of the local brewers got together and made up a couple batches of homebrew both to celebrate their roots and to get something together in time for the event. […]
Great things are brewing
Generally I hate beer puns and “Good things are brewing” is among my least favorite, but there is so much going on I couldn’t resist. In fact, rather than one comprehensive post, I thought a bunch of brief updates would be more appropriate. This will be and has been a busy week in Shore Craft Beer soso stay tuned […]
Fresh beer is contagious at Burley Oak
The fresh beer compromise
Jesse Prall has been doing a lot of brewing lately, even for a professional, full time brewer. The struggle to keep up with demand is significant, especially given that there are so many people coming into the tap room the three days or so per week it is open. It’s a problem everyone loves to […]
Building a better beer community
Tipping is not a city in China. It also isn’t exclusively a way to reward excellent service. One of the lesser-used variants of the word suggests when something goes mainstream in a big way. Craft beer, if it hasn’t “tipped” already, certainly is in the midst of doing so among the general public. As few […]
Breweries are economic engines
I’ve been writing about the economic development aspect of beer for a long time and sometimes it is easy to forget that not everyone is aware of how critical a part of the local economy craft beer has become, but there is an aspect beyond pure economic development that doesn’t get talked about much. Real […]
Brewpubs are reshaping beach towns
I thought it was busy at the Dewey Beer Company and, I guess, for the uninitiated it looked that way. But there were seats to be had and no wait for tables on a Friday afternoon, which in August just means there’s a lull. Another way to tell there’s a lull in the action is […]
Start your economic engines
I’ve been writing about the economic development aspect of beer for a long time and sometimes it is easy to forget that not everyone is aware of how critical a part of the local economy craft beer has become, but there is an aspect beyond pure economic development that doesn’t get talked about much. Real […]
Here’s to National IPA Day
Nearly a year to the day before the inaugural National IPA Day, I tried my first Maryland-made IPA. It was a concoction called 7 Finger Farmer at the soon-to-be-opened Burley Oak Brewing Company. Although this blog is generally about the local beer culture, in honor of National IPA Day (celebrated on August 6 this year), […]
Brewing from the rafters at Fin City
When people told me Fin City was above Hooper’s Crab House, I didn’t take them literally. After all, Hooper’s is just on the Assawoman Bay and it would make sense to have a brewery just above it on the water. Imagine my surprise when I showed up to Hooper’s to meet some of the owners […]
