Craft Beer is For the Generations

As we set forth on another holiday season, and the calendar fills with gatherings created far before we were born in some cases. Traditions of meals, desserts, performances, and holiday drinks are already on our to-do list. Holiday music almost creates a scent of pine in the air even more so then the tree! The […]

Dogfish Head Indian Brown Ale with Smoked Gouda

Dogfish Head Indian Brown Ale with Smoked Gouda

This is a continuation of a blog about the Shore Craft Beer Talk and Tasting held at the Clarion Fountainebleu in early 2016. I was really excited to see this pairing on the list because the Indian Brown is one of my favorites. Not only is it a really accessible beer, it is one of […]

Assawoman Angry Clown Brown Ale with Maytag Blue Cheese

Angry Clown

This is a continuation of a blog about the Shore Craft Beer Talk and Tasting held at the Clarion Fountainebleu in early 2016. The difficulty here is both to not oversell the cheese and not undersell the beer. Maytag Blue Cheese is better described on this link, but I’ll say it has almost the consistency of […]

Tall Tales Paul Bunyan Strong Ale with Roquefort

Eric Camper

This is a continuation of a blog about the Shore Craft Beer Talk and Tasting held at the Clarion Fountainebleu in early 2016. Eric Camper, the head brewer at Tall Tales, has been hard at work re-imagining the Paul Bunyan Strong Ale for wider distribution and hit upon the right combination between the beer and […]

Evo Crystal Row American Strong Ale with Gouda

pouring beer fast

This is a continuation of a blog about the Shore Craft Beer Talk and Tasting held at the Clarion Fountainebleu in early 2016. I so was looking forward to trying Crystal Row, which I head Evo has been tinkering with since they were in Delmar (which is where I live, but I’m still a good […]

Celebrating taste with beer and cheese

Pouring beer

The first time I wrote about craft beer culture was nearly a decade ago, and it was about craft beer and cheese. The guy who billed himself as the “Beer Trekker” was having a beer and cheese pairing in the area and, because it was beer, I did a newspaper story on it for the […]

Pairs Well With…A Craft Beer Pairing Primer

Beer flight

Stage One: Pairings Happen Am I alone in the realization that I’m pairing craft beers without even being aware of it? We drink beer and we eat food often at the same time thus, of course, creating a beer and food pairing. But the thought of intentionally pairing beer can feel overwhelming and complicated. There […]