Day #3 We had big plans to spend most of the morning in the Smithsonian Museum of American History and then hit the Georgetown waterfront for a late lunch. After a couple of hours wandering the amazing exhibits, my folks were done; too much walking the day before called for a lazy, sun soaked, beer in hand afternoon by the river. [...]

I love Lagunitas’ beers. One of my most memorable craft beer epiphanies was tasting Hop Stoopid for the first time and being one of only two people at the tasting who liked it. Actually “liked” is not a good way to describe it; I did cartwheels over it, angels chorused and I think I almost cried. It was the moment I [...]

Day #2 in D.C. saw us hit the National Mall starting at the Captiol Building and a walk down to the Lincoln Memorial and back. Amazingly, even though Brent grew up in New Jersey (so close!), he had never done this either! It was quite a walk, probably 6 miles or so, so we’d built up quite the appetite.  Another [...]

Joey Redner of Cigar City Brewing posted of the company’s local-government-induced woes on their blog this morning. Last week they went to have their wet-zoning permit renewed – which should have been a cakewalk – and ran into several councillors who ran red flags up over unsubstantiated claims of neighborhood disturbances and increased crime rates. The vote ended tied 3-3. [...]

So, first things first. An apology for being gone from the blog-o-sphere for so long! School has been busy, my folks were here for a month from Australia and we took a great trip to D.C. and Delaware. D.C. and DE were great! We got to drink a myriad of beers we don’t get to drink at home, saw some [...]

So we left the big city D.C behind, and headed out to Rehoboth Beach, DE. Friends had lent us their condo for the week and we were planning on having a relaxing old time, along with a couple of brewery tours thrown in for good measure! First stop after dumping our luggage – Dogfish Head Brewpub! We tried a couple [...]

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 [...]

I recently completed my first cross-country homebrew trade, with Brandon who writes the Thirsty Zymurgist blog. I was pretty nervous to send my brews cross country to Oregon to be tried by someone I’d never met before, but I figured it was good practice for the Iron Brewer tasting coming up next week; what the heck! Brandon sent me three [...]

Whilst I’m on vacation in the rolling green hills of western MA, some wonderful people have offered to write some guest posts for me. Today my friend Tom (not a beer geek), who writes the fantastically informative book review blog Completely Booked, chronicles a trip to Total Wine and the subsequent beer tasting with his girlfriend Vicki. To this uninitiated [...]