Beer Notes: Coffee Beer

To listen to the audio for this Beer Notes, please click here. Have you ever been out at the bar, feeling like a beer might make you even more tired?  No worries. What you need is the beverage that combines two of America’s favorite drinks. This week on Beer Notes, we’re talking about coffee beers. […]

Beer Notes: Crowlers and Growlers

This script is from the second season of Beer Notes, which you can listen to at beernotes.org. Picture this: You’re at a brewery. It’s one that you’ve been meaning to visit forever, but it was just too far from your house to make the trek — until now. You’re finally here, and you just discovered your […]

Beer Notes: Brewery Growth in 2018

This script is from the second season of Beer Notes, which you can listen to at beernotes.org. The rumor is that craft beer has reached its peak.  Some breweries are closing, beer sales are down and are being displaced by other craft concoctions.  Rumors are never good so this week on Beer Notes, we are going […]

Beer Notes: Top 3 Pint Glasses

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This script is from the second season of Beer Notes, which you can listen to at beernotes.org. On last week’s episode of Beer Notes, we discussed why the traditional shaker pint glass found in most breweries and bars across the U.S. isn’t the ideal.  This week on Beer Notes, we will introduce you to some of […]

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, […]

Beer Notes: Craft beer months in your state

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This script is from the second season of Beer Notes, which you can listen to at beernotes.org. What do North Carolina, Idaho, and Maine have in common?  All three states have chosen to market April as their craft beer month.   This week on Beer Notes, we are discussing state’s that have craft beer months and […]

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” […]

Beer Notes: Alcohol-free craft beer

This script is from the second season of Beer Notes, which you can listen to at beernotes.org. I can’t believe it’s not booze. As the popularity and demand for craft beer continues to rise in the U.S., so too does the demand for nonalcoholic craft beer. This week on Beer Notes, we’re discussing the growing trend […]

Beer Notes: Independence Day and the Independent Craft Seal

This script is from the second season of Beer Notes, which you can listen to at beernotes.org. Happy Independence Day! Hopefully you’ve been able to enjoy time with loved ones on this American holiday, with plenty of fireworks, hotdogs and cold craft beer. This week on Beer Notes, we’re talking about independence, but not necessarily as […]

Beer Notes: Low Calorie Sours to Try This Summer

Dewey Beer Co sour

This script is from the second season of Beer Notes, which you can listen to at beernotes.org. Summer is a great time to try one of the relatively new, only slightly sour local craft beers by brewers looking for a lower-calorie, thirst-quenching beer. This week on Beer Notes, we’re exploring popular beers here on the Eastern […]

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 […]