The Desert of the Real
This week we’ll discuss a world where the things that are more real are fuzzier than the things that are less so. Getting together with friends and strangers, figuring out what is good and what is not, those things are all real. Going to the liquor store for beer flavored alcoholic syrup to put in […]
Revelation Brewing opens
I’ll do a more thorough story in the coming weeks but for now, here’s the quick and dirty guide to Revelation Brewing Company in Rehoboth: If you’re completely unfamiliar, this is the brewery that has had its own trials and tribulations over the last few months. Frankly, I had to trash my last grand opening […]
Summertime and the living is tarty
It’s the height of summer, and that means (apparently) a ton of tart, fruity beers and gently hopped fruity beers and heavily hopped fruit beers… you get the point. For me, very little can replace a beer flavored beer on a hot day. During the recent festival, I was able to have the new DelMarVa […]
Shore Craft Beer Fest and Riverwalk Celebration Beer List
Beer Guides There are still a few tickets left, get them here. Evolution Lot Nº 3: An American-style IPA is aggressively hopped and features notes of citrus and pine that complement a reserved but firm malt backbone. Primal Pale Ale: A golden dry, slightly hoppy pale ale that is refreshing and balanced. Notes of pine […]
9,000 reasons
After taking last week off, we had to talk about on the Beer with Strangers podcast. Doug and Shawn both were at the National Homebrewer’s Convention last weekend, Tony has a beer festival coming up this weekend and there is all sorts of good bad and odd news in the beer world this week. You […]
Blue Earl Brewing and the State of the Beer
I’ve been promoting my Delaware Beer book lightly this summer, mostly trying to find a way to get people engaged with the concept of drinking local as well as the instance of it. You might not know that Americans only started drinking beer that was imported from a massive central brewery a little more than 100 years […]
Beer is growing, but we knew that
Seriously. Why aren’t you brewing?
An offer you can’t refuse: Come to the Grainfather party
You get the sense that Mike Bouni isn’t a half-measures guy at all. He speaks slowly enough and clearly enough to be understood, but when he’s talking about beer or science he has a bit of a frenetic aura, as if he were trying to radiate his enthusiasm to the rest of the room. I […]
Women and homebrewing
Although it isn’t a done deal yet, women increasingly are taking to craft beer. This has as much to do with the evolving perception of craft beer as it does the lifestyle that is attached to it for many. Introducing them to brewing merely is the next step. <br Language is culture. I think it […]
The upsides of brewing at home
This week Tony and Shawn (and surprise accidental guest Michael Buoni) talk about the Grainfather system for brewing at home and homebrewing culture generally in the run up to the National Homebrew conference in June. They also discuss the week’e beer news which includes more consolidation concerns, brewing classes and whether an all can festival […]
Celebrating all the beer
