New games, new food and new brews hit the Hopper’s Pavilion
Hopper’s Tap House, one of the largest and most craft beer-centric bars on Delmarva, is looking just a little bit different these days than it did when it opened just over two years ago. Not because a tornado touched down its backyard last year, although that disaster might have been the catalyst one of the […]
Beer Watch: Saving a historic home, with the help of beer
How it’s already almost August, I don’t know. I don’t even know how we’re already eight months into 2018, or whether time is linear or circular, or what the meaning of it all is. But I do know it’s the start of a new month, which means it’s time for Beer Watch. Here’s what’s going […]
Brick Works to Bring Award-Winning Beer to Southern Delaware
Brick Works Brewing and Eats was only just founded in 2016, but in the two years it’s been open, the brewpub has made a name for itself for its locally sourced, made-on-site food and beer. Already the brewpub has plans for expansion. A second location is set to open in the fall, in a new […]
Late Nite Liquors: Good Beer Here, Day or Nite
Picture this: It’s 1:30 in the morning in Ocean City. You spent all day soaking up sun on the beach, lost track of time and started your vacation bar-hopping ritual a little late; you only had time to down a single pale ale at the bar before you realized last call would be coming up much sooner […]
Beer Trailing from Maryland to Montana
MD –> MT I just came back from a week-long trip to Montana. Last Tuesday afternoon my fiance BL and I touched down in Bozeman, a college city in the Southern part of the state, where we would spend four nights in a hotel before driving three hours west to Missoula to camp out in […]
Beer Watch: Local Brews Round-Up for July
Here are some good places to enjoy a beer this summer: At a barbecue. Beside the pool. On the beach (in a cozy or opaque generic container depending on where you’re beaching). On a balcony, at a ballgame and, most importantly, at your local brewery. Luckily on Delmarva there’s no shortage of local craft breweries […]
What’s new this summer at Fin City? Well, that’s up to you.
Fin City has a lot in the works for a summer full of beer “reel-eases” and easy drinking out on the Assawoman Bay (if you’ve never been, they brew up in the rafters of Hooper’s Crab House in West Ocean City). Even so, this year’s Beer of the Summer could actually be determined by you. […]
Beer on the Boards: What’s in store this summer at Backshore?
Backshore Brewing Co. is now entering its sixth season on the Ocean City Boardwalk, and things at the brewery are really heating up — pun only a little intended. June through August are crazy months for any Boardwalk business, but in spite of the thousands of visitors who come sit on their bar stools every […]
Beer Watch: Will new metal tariffs raise the price of beer?
On June 1, aluminum and steel tariffs were imposed upon three major U.S. allies: Canada, Mexico and the European Union. President Trump initially enacted these metal tariffs worldwide back in March, but the three major trading partners listed above were exempt until now. When the penalty, a 25% tax on imported steel and a 10% […]
A week of cheap beer pairings in Ocean City? Yes, please!
Before you’re thrown off by the headline, let me just clarify that it’s not the quality of the beer that’s cheap (no Michelob Ultra here, people), but the food and craft beer pairings that are inexpensive during Shore Craft Beer Restaurant Week, coming up June 4 – 10 in Ocean City. It’s an issue in […]
Merging craft beer with the arts
We already know that craft beer is an art in itself, as much as any culinary process is considered an artistic exploit. Merging the art of craft beer with more traditional arts — painting, sculpture, even music — makes for a pairing as great as the classic IPA-with-a-basket-of-mozzarella-sticks combo (or something as equally greasy). Traditional […]
The springiest of springtime beers
It’s May, and it’s — of course — the month of the maibock. For many craft beer lovers, our preferred beers change with the seasons. Gone are the days of the winter lager and the coffee stout; fruity beers and sours are making their way back onto the shelves. Heavy beers that sit in your […]
