This coming Saturday, December 5th, is the Cliveden Winter Beer Festival at Cliveden, a National Trust Historic Site in Philadelphia. Part beer tasting, part museum fundraiser, this festival will feature seasonal and limited edition holiday craft beers from over 20 breweries! [...]

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Okay, let me start out by saying that I am not a fan of aging beer. Like, at all. I believe that beer is at its best the moment the brewer decides that it’s ready for drinking; it can really only go downhill from there. That being said, I do find the aging of beer [...]

In addition to all the talk about how grapes are grown, Tim (of Winexpert) described the array of flavors of the different grapes. Some of the descriptors he used were apple, blackberry, cherry, melon, grapefruit, black currant, gooseberry, lychee, honey, herbs, pepper, grass, violets, and chocolate… Sounds pretty delicious to me!
So how does one go [...]

A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend a wine pairing seminar held by Tim Vandergrift of Winexpert. Winexpert makes and sells a wide variety of wine kits for home winemaking enthusiasts.
I freely admit that I don’t know much about wine. I’m a beer person (obviously). The most I can usually say about [...]

Fall is in full swing here in the northeast. The colorful foliage has mostly made its way to the ground, the weather has turned decidedly crisp, and fresh hop beers from this year’s harvest abound! [...]
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I’ve been dying to tell you guys this — I have a new gig writing for RateBeer.com! I am now one of RateBeer’s Hop Press Featured Publishers! Woo!
Every Friday, I will have a new post up on my Hop Press site, and this post will be featured on the front page of RateBeer.com! Pretty cool, [...]

My brother got married this past weekend… At Stoudt’s!
That’s right, my big brother finally wrastled him a wife. And one of the best parts about the whole thing is that they both share a love of beer. So what better place to celebrate their wedding day than at a brewery?
So on Saturday, November 7th, Ray [...]

This past summer, I wrote a post about sour beer, the different critters that do the dirty work, and different ways of making sour beer at home. Weeks later, Tim and I did our very first sour mash for a Berliner Weisse, so I thought I’d post an update on how it went!
We made our [...]