Looking for a well balanced beer list
Craft beer increasingly is complex, and not just when it comes to taste. In recent months I’ve noticed a significant increase in the number of people who are more than a little emphatic about challenging their taste buds. I’m for this, really, making an effort to try all the new beers one can has a […]
Beer novelties: Finding the dregs
I know there are awful, awful things on the internet, and that, as a grownup, I use the information superhighway at my own risk, but sometimes you see things that are so culturally offensive you have to speak up. This is one of those things. I understand most countries have a healthy novelty industry and also that there […]
5 craft beer stories you missed this week
Summer isn’t gone by any means, but its bags are packed, and, as a working grownup, that’s just fine with me. First of all, it’s festival season which means I’ll be at one beer festival or another pretty much every weekend between now and Halloween. And that’s just on the production brewery side of things. […]
Celebrating Delaware’s brewing history
If you’ve never been to the Blue Ball Barn in Wilmington’s Alapocas Run State Park, it’s worth the trip even when it hasn’t been converted into a beer garden (as it was hen I was there Saturday for the annual beer festival). Part nature museum and part conference hall, the “barn” actually is a modern […]
Craft Beer shyness: The final frontier
A little breaking news: Evo is on tap at the newest (and by all accounts the best) bar in Princess Anne. I was covering the ribbon cutting for the Washington Inn in Princess Anne. I’ll get a story up this week on the social, cultural and epicurial implications but for right now I want to […]
Is there credence in the craft beer bubble argument?
Lew Bryson presents a compelling argument regarding the dangers of saturation and declining quality control in the craft beer market in his recent article, Craft Beer’s Looming Crisis. He’d know. He’s been writing about the beer industry since the mid-1990’s. Bryson isn’t new, then neither are commentaries portending doom and gloom for craft beer. Delmarva […]
The more things change
On this week’s Beer with Strangers podcast Doug and Tony discuss changes in beer rules regulations and practices all over the globe. Plus, new old yeast and new old brands and a couple of pieces of big news at Xtreme Brewing as well as for Shore Craft Beer. This week, Tony was at the Brewer’s Association […]
Hazed and Confused: There’s nothing wrong with being new to craft beer
Entering the craft beer community can be overwhelming for the uninitiated. There’s dynamic lingo, fluctuating trends and a variety of flavors to learn and love. If you are new to craft beer it can seem like everyone boarded the train years ago; they already know the whole culture and you’re still trying to wrap your […]
Size matters: 7 beer stories you should be following
This week we’re looking at how size matters in beer news for the week. Big beer is into fewer calories and collecting large numbers of small brewers. America is the biggest hops consumer as small farmers struggle with the proposition of incorporating that crop into their land rotation. In addition to that we’re talking language in beer, […]
Drink your Wheaties!
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of hanging out at Xtreme during the “Drink Your Wheaties” competition, an event that challenged the homebrewers to make a beer that was at least 51 percent wheat. The winners were as follows: 1st PlaceTom Ahmann – Kettle Soured Gose 2nd Place Todd Lester – Tropical Wheat 3rd Place Tim Gavigan – Belgian Strong Wheat Ale […]
Being an insufferable beer snob is all about context
In case you don’t get the chance (or don’t have the interest) the linked story essentially says that “mouthfeel” is loaded with pretense and misuse. He said it makes him sound as if he is in a club to which he doesn’t want to belong. Eventually, he comes down on the side of lightening up. […]
The Desert of the Real
This week we’ll discuss a world where the things that are more real are fuzzier than the things that are less so. Getting together with friends and strangers, figuring out what is good and what is not, those things are all real. Going to the liquor store for beer flavored alcoholic syrup to put in […]
