In the beer geek community there is an assertion that beer ages well. Not just some beer but a lot of different kinds of beer. This is my single largest disagreement with a large percentage of the beer geek community. Sure there are some beers out there that age wonderfully but there are a vastly [...]
Bill Madden former brewer at Capital City in Arlington is stepping down as part owner and brewer at Founders in Old Town Alexandria. He is apparently leaving the brewing scene altogether to pursue some other opportunity. The new brewer is rumored to be Barbara Gerovac wife of Sweetwater brewer Greg Gerovac. I am saddened by [...]
Just in case any of you ratebeerians out there check my blog, RateBeer is down. The server experienced a hardware failure around 3:30CDT. Joe is working with the hosting company to get it back on line ASAP. I will post updates as I get them from Joe. [UPDATE: 2320 EDT] The server is still dead [...]
I am very active on the beer rating site RateBeer, in fact I am a site adminstrator. That out of the way I was very excited to see that Ratebeer’s recent list of best beers actually made it onto CNN! The article was linked off of the main CNN page last night and now it [...]
(This post is a duplicate of something that I posted to the Food and Beer Forum at RateBeer) I am a bit of a heretic when it comes to pairing beer and food, namely I am not sure that I enjoy many beer and food pairings. Those that I do enjoy typically involve a session [...]
Being a rather serious beer geek I have an extensive Beer Cellar. Over the course of the past year or so I have learned some valuable lessons on what ages well and what does not. IIPAs are a relatively new style and as such I had no experience in aging them. So far I have [...]
Those morons over at Columbia University’s National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse are up to their old tricks again. First they release a “study” that tells us that the “underage”, think of the children, consume 25% of all the alcohol sold in the US. This “study” was found to be totally bogus. Basically they [...]