Fun with beers and tastes
We’re homebrew heavy this week, mostly because I found a cool cache of homebrew articles. Also, we want to remind you that we’ll be sampling homebrew beers at this weekend’s Shore Craft Beer Fest. The exciting thing about that, if you’re into exclusivity, is that they will be the only beers you literally can’t buy […]
Five Things – A Conversation with Chef Brenton Wallace
In this column, we explore a few existential questions with Chef Brenton Wallace, owner of Crust and Craft in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Q. What was the beer that started you drinking craft beer? A: Bells Two Hearted back in 2005. Monks in Philadelphia had it on draft and I was there and wanted something different. […]
Our 8 favorite beer stories of the week
We’ve been doing this show pretty much weekly for a little more than two years. Recently, there have been a lot of stories that are ending or at least back in the news that we have seen over time. It’s kind of fun. Also, it says a little something about institutional memory. Keeping up to […]
The silly and the serious
Jocular isn’t a pretty word, which is too bad, because that was the vibe at this year’s homebrew judging session at Pemberton Park, during the Good Beer Festival. It was a filthy day and it was outrageously early, especially for being the second day of a beer festival, but the mood was light and engaged […]
Worcester County embraces craft beer culture
For the second year in a row, Ocean City, Berlin and Worcester County governments all have named October Shore Craft Beer month. It isn’t just exciting to those of us who love craft beer. What is important about the continuing civic support of local beer is that it is a signal that local leadership is […]
Hanging out, making beer
Oktoberfest is over in Munich, but here in the more literal-minded U.S. we’re going to keep celebrating Octoberfest for the rest of the month. There are beer festivals pretty much every weekend from here on out including (probably) the Good Beer Festival this weekend, the Snow Hill Octoberfest next weekend and, of course the Shore Craft […]
The hot beer for the next decade is being brewed now
While demand might be outpacing supply, there isn’t a per se hop shortage. As we’ve mentioned before, there more is a Citra shortage that may keep smaller brewers from being able to make variations of some of the more popular IPAs. The upside is that they have to be creative and bring other styles to the fore. The […]
Proclamations are just the start at Shore Craft Beer Month kicks off
This week Berlin announced that October once again would be recognized as Shore Craft Beer month, just in time for the inaugural Berlin Crab Feast, featuring local beers (I personally am looking forward to trying out the Blue Crab Stout brewed with crabs). Next week, Ocean City and Worcester County are going to follow suit, […]
This week’s top 9 beer and brewing stories
Just so there’s no confusion, we know that Bud and Miller merged, but it is a story we’ve been covering in depth for the last few months. There aren’t a bunch of surprises or changes, so we didn’t include it, although we certainly at least will mention it on the podcast. A lesser known story […]
Looming hop shortage can be a good thing
We’ve been hearing about this for awhile, that there is a hop shortage and it will kill, or at last maim, the craft beer industry. “Inconvenience” is the word I would choose, but I’ve never been an alarmist. At the bottom of the problem, according to the Wall Street Journal is a supply problem for […]
Celebrating four years of 3rd Wave
According to the absolute first Google search return, fruit and flowers are the appropriate gift for the fourth anniversary. I’m sure they were referring to wedding anniversaries, but the idea, the internet said, behind fruit and flowers is in the hope and support of fertility and renewal. That was enough to register it as a […]
Will pot take a bite out of craft beer?
Last week, a Market Watch editorial took a shot at Boston Beer Co. and a PAC of Mass. distributors for working to block a bill legalizing recreational marijuana in Massachusetts. The editorial says this is a wrongheaded move because the distributors are crooked (being recently convicted of a pay-to-play scam) and Sam Adams is already losing […]