Five Fun Facts About Shore Breweries (and how you can prepare for FeBREWary Trivia Night at Hopper’s)
Maryland’s official month-long month dedicated to celebrating all things craft beer, FeBREWary, launches on the Shore on Feb. 1 with a special Trivia Night at Hopper’s Tap House in Salisbury (find details down below). In honor of FeBREWary, local beer, and brewery-related trivia, here are a few fun facts about some of your favorite Shore […]
Beer Notes: Sustainable Craft Beer
This script is from the second season of Beer Notes, which you can listen to at beernotes.org. Environmentally-friendly craft breweries are changing the landscape of beer, from the ingredients to the packaging to the brewing process itself. One brewery is even using rejected Kellogg’s cornflakes in its mash. This week on Beer Notes, we’re discussing sustainable […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: 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 […]
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 […]
A little homebrewing history to celebrate 40 years of American Homebrewers Association
Boulder, CO — On Dec. 7, the American Homebrewers Association (AHA) celebrates its 40th birthday. Founded in 1978 by Charlie Papazian, the AHA has worked on behalf of the homebrewing community for four decades, serving tens of thousands of members, plus the 1.1 million homebrewers nationwide, with events, publications, resources, and more. “At a time […]
Beer Institute and Congress urge Americans to drink responsibly during the holidays
Washington, D.C. — December is National Impaired Driving Prevention Month. Since 1981, every U.S. president has made the annual proclamation to prevent drunk and otherwise impaired driving and raise awareness of the matter. This December, the Beer Institute teamed up with 96 members of Congress, from both the House of Representatives and the Senate, in their […]
