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 […]
Delmarva’s craft beer-centered radio program “Beer Notes” picked up by Alaska NPR station
Berlin, Md., 1-2-19: “Beer Notes,” a craft beer-oriented radio program produced by Shore Craft Beer in collaboration with Delmarva Public Radio (DPR), Salisbury University, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Tri-County Council for the Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland, has been picked up for syndication by its first non-Shore public radio station: KMXT in […]
Together, Tall Tales and Candy Kitchen make the sweetest beer on the market
Tall Tales knows beer, and Candy Kitchen knows fudge. This month, the businesses — two respective experts in their respective fields, Tall Tales a staple brewpub on Delmarva for over five years and Candy Kitchen Ocean City’s reigning champion of candy sales since 1937 — have joined forces to create the sweetest beer on the […]
Beer Notes: How to pour beer
This script is from the first season of Beer Notes, which you can listen to at beernotes.org. Jim Koch, co-founder and chairman of the Boston Beer Company, the producers of Sam Adams beer, says that “Beer deserves the same respect that wine does.” We agree, and how you pour the beer matters. This week on Beer […]
Beer Notes: The surprising origin of straws
This script is from the first season of Beer Notes, which you can listen to at beernotes.org. The origin of straws is based in necessity and celebration, not convenience, and beer played a big role. This week on Beer Notes, we’re exploring the origin of straws. The oldest surviving straws were found during an excavation of […]
Beer Notes: Global Climate Change and Craft Beer
If you think that the increasing numbers of hot days might be okay as long as you can retreat with a cold craft beer, think again. This week on Beer Notes, we are discussing the effect of a heating planet on our favorite beverage. Steve Davis, the co-author of a study done at the University […]
Kellogg’s is turning rejected cornflakes into craft beer
Insert your own idiom here — beauty is in the eye of the beholder, maybe? What at first glance appear to be rejected Kellogg’s cornflakes — too big, too small, or too burnt — are being spun into liquid gold. In this case, craft beer. Kellogg’s is collaborating with Manchester, England-based Seven Bro7hers Brewery to […]
