Drink craft beer this month, win a vacation in Ocean City
We say it all the time, but FeBREWary really IS our favorite time of year for beer on the Eastern Shore. It’s Craft Beer Lovers Month in Maryland, and even though you’re more than allowed to love beer March through January too, we really go all out celebrating good, local beer this month. FeBREWary About […]
Beer Notes: Camp Fire’s “Butte County Proud Resilience IPA
This script is from the second season of Beer Notes, which you can listen to at beernotes.org. Beginning in December of 2018, over 1,400 craft breweries across the United States were all brewing the same beer — more than 17,000 barrels, or 4.2 million pints of it. This week on Beer Notes, we’re talking about brewing […]
Crooked Hammock’s “Gentle Giant” Japanese lager to enter Extreme Beer Festival
Lewes, DE — When roughly 120 breweries across the country were invited to create sessional, extreme beers “via unexpected or innovative ingredients, techniques and methods,” Crooked Hammock Brewery rose to the challenge. One of three Delaware breweries invited by BeerAdvocate and Dogfish Head Brewery to create something that “challenges the norm” for beer lovers and […]
Beer Notes: Craft Breweries and the Government Shutdown
This script is from the second season of Beer Notes, which you can listen to at beernotes.org. If you are waiting for a new beer release or want that new brewery down the street to open, you may have to wait for months. This week on Beer Notes, we’re discussing the effect of a U.S. government […]
Five Fun Facts About Shore Breweries (and how you can prepare for FeBREWary Trivia Night at Hopper’s)
Maryland’s official month-long month dedicated to celebrating all things craft beer, FeBREWary, launches on the Shore on Feb. 1 with a special Trivia Night at Hopper’s Tap House in Salisbury (find details down below). In honor of FeBREWary, local beer, and brewery-related trivia, here are a few fun facts about some of your favorite Shore […]
Beer Notes: Sustainable Craft Beer
This script is from the second season of Beer Notes, which you can listen to at beernotes.org. Environmentally-friendly craft breweries are changing the landscape of beer, from the ingredients to the packaging to the brewing process itself. One brewery is even using rejected Kellogg’s cornflakes in its mash. This week on Beer Notes, we’re discussing sustainable […]
Baltimore’s RavenBeer added to the Love on Tap festival lineup
For the first time ever, RavenBeer is coming to a Shore Craft Beer Festival. On Feb. 23, the Baltimore-based brewery will be bringing with them an oyster stout and one of the world’s few dark Kölsch beers to Shore Craft Beer Fest: Love on Tap at Seacrets, making them the first brewery located west of […]
Exploring new breweries on the Western Eastern Shore
What’s the first thing you do when you move somewhere new? If you’re like me and your priorities are totally in line, you already know which breweries are within the 50-mile radius of your new home, and your first mission is to decide at which places you’ll make yourself a regular. In September I wrote […]
Beer Notes: Evaluating your beer with all five senses
This script is from the second season of Beer Notes, which you can listen to at beernotes.org. You might think you like a beer because it tastes good, but your idea of taste is far more complicated than you’d think it is. This week on Beer Notes, we’re exploring all the senses that go into your […]
Shore Craft Beer, Delmarva Public Radio to Kick Off Craft Beer Lovers’ Month at Town Throwdown Trivia Night
To kick off Maryland’s official month-long celebration of craft beer, “FeBREWary,” Shore Craft Beer and Delmarva Public Radio (DPR) will host a special Trivia Night at Hopper’s Tap House, 1400 S. Salisbury Blvd., in Salisbury, MD on Friday, February 1, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. The public is invited to vie with representatives from towns and breweries […]
Brewers Association awards 2019 research grants to hop and barley projects
Boulder, Colo.—The Brewers Association (BA)—the not-for-profit trade association dedicated to small and independent American brewers—today announced the recipients of its 2019 Research and Service Grants Program, designed to further the development of a healthy and sustainable raw materials supply chain. This year, 17 grants totaling $509,058 were awarded to researchers and organizations across the country. “Ensuring a healthy supply […]
Beer Notes: Pairing food with craft beer
This script is from the second season of Beer Notes, which you can listen to at beernotes.org. In a 2015 Wall Street Journal article “The Connoisseur’s Way to Pair Food with Beer,” William Bostick states that “many of today’s craft beers are as complex, as revered, and sometimes as pricey as fine wines… So it should […]
