Today’s guest post is by Kristina from Twinkies & Gin. If you have kids (or not), and hate people who are holier-than-thou (who doesn’t?), then you should definitely be reading their blog; these ladies are irreverent and downright hysterical! ___________________________________________________________________________________________ I always hated beer snobs. Chatter about hops, fermentation and insidious grains filled me with a seething rage as Pete and I [...]

A couple of months ago I competed in round 2 of the Iron Brewer homebrew competition; this seemed to garner my homebrew some more interest than they normally gather. People I follow on Twitter approached me for homebrew trades because they wanted to taste it; really?! That’s cool Barry (@BitzyBrew on Twitter) got in touch to trade some of his homebrew [...]

I’m going to start out by being perfectly honest. I’ve had a love-hate relationship with the Funky Buddha almost from the day it opened 4 years ago. I always loved the fact that it was somewhere I could get a great beer, but the hookah smoking crowd has never really been my cup of tea. That all changed one Saturday [...]

I was very sad not to be able to make it to the Great American Beer Festival this year, having already committed my measly 2 weeks of vacation elsewhere. So, for a week I lived vicariously through my beer nerd-filled Twitter & Facebook feeds. Saturday’s big award ceremony was thankfully streamed live online by the awesome guys at BeerTapTV, and thanks [...]

Today we have a guest post from my delightful (ahem) other half, Brent (aka BrentIndeed on Twitter). Hopefully we are going to make this a more frequent occurrence because he is way funnier than me Here he is talking about his love of all things pickled, and how he “fixed the pickles”! ———————————————————————– When I was 5 years old, I [...]

I recently spent a week in North Western Massachussets, and got to drink a boat load of delicious beer. I have had reviews of them all drafted out since we got home three weeks ago, but life got in the way! Here’s the first one, New Holland’s Dragon’s Milk – American Strong Ale: Pours a very dark brown/black into the [...]

This week my pre-ordered wet hops from Brewmasters Warehouse are finally in! I have a pound of Citra and a pound of Cascade coming that are certainly destined for great things out of my brew pot!! I had thought we might do two separate beers and single hop them, but it seems I underestimated the equivalencies between dry and wet [...]