Here’s another fun-sounding, and tasty festival coming up soon. The Blue Ridge Oyster Festival will be held at Devils Backbone Brewing Company in Nelson County on April 23. Growing up near Baltimore, MD I was practically weaned on seafood, and oysters …

Lately I’ve been making a point to focus my beer purchases on readily available, year-round beers. Hop Mountain Pale Ale from Old Dominion Brewing Company, in Dover, DE, is one of those “grocery store” beers that’s found in many stores around here. As …

I don’t attend many of these sorts of events, but I’m seriously tempted by an email I received about a Terrapin Beer dinner at the Fredericksburg Capital Ale House. I’m not real familiar with Terrapin beers, but admittedly it’s the menu that …

March Madness themed beer polls seem to be breeding, but who doesn’t enjoy sharing their opinions on beers? On top of that you might win a cool prize too!

There’s still time to check out the DRAFT Magazine 2011 March Beer Madness Challenge. One lucky …

Here’s a great tasting meatless pizza for your Lenten Fridays. Actually, we make this pizza quite frequently, throughout the year. (Admittedly, it’s so good it hardly qualifies as a sacrifice.)

2 – 3 T butter
3-4 yellow onions
1 T sugar
15 Kalamata ol…

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One more bit of St. Patrick’s Day fun.

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Like I said earlier, I like Irish drinking jokes.

But don’t act like a horse’s a$$ today.
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Here we go again. It’s that time of the year when a Saint revered by many, especially in the Irish-Catholic community, has his good name used as an excuse for drunkeness, insulting marketing, and even bigotry. As a Catholic of Irish decent, and a …

There are certain beers that I enjoy regularly, my “go to” beers so to speak. Yet despite that, or perhaps because of that familiarity, I often don’t think to post reviews of them. An occasional mention in passing perhaps, but that’s it. Starr Hill Nor…