The Brew SiteThis is like every serious homebrewer’s dream: the Mount Carmel Brewing Company, in Cincinnati, is being run out of the guy’s basement. This is a great article on it: Somehow, the term "microbrewery" doesn’t capture just how small the tri-state’s newest commercial brewer is. If the Oldenburg Brewery in Fort … Continue reading
This is a cool idea: Brewing establishment offers laboratory for amateurs: Coffill’s place of employment is a do-it-yourself brewing establishment known as IncrediBREW at 112 Daniel Webster Highway in Nashua, N.H. With his assistance, green amateurs are routinely taught the finer points of transforming malts, hops and barley into genuine … Continue reading
Goose Island beers have (finally?) turned up in New York City, according to this article in New York Daily News. Kind of a puff piece, but good news for New Yorkers. Two weeks ago, four of the Gooses – Geese? – showed up at local stores in bottled form: Honker’s … Continue reading
Just a quick note about Bend Brewing Company‘s seasonal Apricot Ale. Very quick because we had dinner there Wednesday night (after visting the farmer’s market) and I only had a taster of it… and yes, I guess I do have the kind of hubris that would compel me to write … Continue reading
We visited our local new Best Buy this weekend and saw this: the Haier BrewMaster Beer Dispenser. Had to drool over it for a minute. Not only can you put your cornelius keg in there, but it comes with wire racks so you can also stack up your bottled (or … Continue reading
There’s a nice article here about summer ales and Maine’s growing homebrewing and microbrewing scenes. The beauty of summer ales is that they don’t really exist, as a historical style of beer, so they can be whatever the brewer wants them to be. Petersen, for instance, makes a summertime watermelon … Continue reading
Got a comment on my More on gluten free beer post from a couple months back from the Ramapo Valley Brewery. They produce a gluten free beer, too, so I thought I’d reprint their comment here as a full post: Greetings from Ramapo Valley Brewery. We are a brewery in … Continue reading
I’m not sure I understand this article completely: A ‘virtual brewery’ started by former employees of Red Hat and Computer Associates could be listed on the Newcastle Stock Exchange by the end of the year. Brewtopia, described by former Red Hat employee and now chief executive officer Liam Mulhall as … Continue reading
The state of North Carolina restricts the amount of alcohol in beer that can be sold—a maximum of six percent by volume. Sound backwards? It is—especially considering there’s no limit to the amount of alcohol in wine or hard liquor. And wine is just as easy to buy as beer. … Continue reading
Discovered an unusual new beer this weekend: Orange Blossom Cream Ale from Buffalo Bill’s Brewery. I was expecting a light, slightly fruity cream ale—a good summertime beer—and was pleasantly surprised to find that the "Orange Blossom" part of the name is quite literal: there’s a strong sweet aroma and flavor … Continue reading