A Day of Casks
What makes a perfect Saturday afternoon? For me it was being holed up in a fabulous joint with a bunch of beer lovers and brewers sampling from 10 local casks. Oh, and I can’t leave out the great food and ...
Daniel Bradford
A College Beer Town
A great thing about touring prospective colleges with my daughter Anne is that she is already well-heeled on the pleasures of a good beer scene. I had wanted to visit Dennis Thies’ Green Man Brewery for quite some time. Apparently we ...
The Hidden Charlotte Part 2
The final phase of my Charlotte weekend occurred after the Pints for Prostates first annual board meeting. The Pints for Prostates’ board meeting went for quite some time as the board worked through some of the guiding principles of the ...
The Hidden Charlotte Part 1
Recently, Rick Lyke invited me to join the board of directors for Pints for Prostates, a charity I’ve been fundraising for the past couple of years. A yes came quite easily and our first board meeting was this Saturday in ...
Tuning my cask for Brew Your Cask Off cask ale festival
After my last insipid, yet bizarre, entry into the competition for the SweetWater Brewing Co’s’ Brew Your Cask Off Cask Ale Festival (March 5th, SweetWater Brewery, 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm), the powers that be suggested I should pair up ...
On Giants and Stout
Did you see the footage of the Vikings’ dome coming down? Pretty wild, and like good chaos theory it lead to a discovery of a great beer. I’m not such a fan of the NY Giants. Actually, I find being ...
Sam does Discovery Channel
I’m sure you’ve all watched the Big Show — Sam and Dogfish Head take the Discovery Channel, and Sony, by storm. It was quite a romp actually. We got a great glimpse of Sam’s envelop-pushing, madcap, genius and a great ...
Birth of a Brewery
It’s rare that a beer lover gets to watch a brewery being born. However, years ago I offered a young man a job at the magazine for no apparent reason other than he seemed really interesting. Along the way he ...
Just a close knit beer family
While running errands the other day I got a funny call from Andy at Triangle Brewing Co. He needed a favor. Now, you need to understand this. The Boys From Triangle are some very resourceful, self-reliant, guys not above some ...
Okay, this is weird.
I’m sitting down to watch an old movie with a bomber of Foothills Baltic Porter. Pop the cap and pour a nice tulip glass full of the dark liquid. I put the bottle on the coffee table and pick up ...
