This month’s edition of The Session is sponsored by John Duffy at the “The Beer Nut” blog in Ireland. In announcing this month’s theme, John writes:So for this Session, let’s get back to basics. I’m sure I’m not the only one whose early drinking career…
“What’s your favorite beer?” What’s your favorite beer style? These and similar questions are posed to me quite frequently. I am sure that any reader of this blog has been asked the same questions. For me, those are not answerable queries. My best answ…
This week’s Mad Fox Brewing Newsletter brings word that a location has been selected for Bill Madden’s Mad Fox brewpub.Mad Fox and Waterford Development executed a Letter of Intent on February 25, 2009 for 8,618 square feet of space for our first brewp…
The Winter session of the United States Beer Tasting Championship was completed recently. In the USBTC competition the beers are judged in regional field trials. The regional winners in each category then move on to a national judging to determine the …
The CBS show 60 Minutes presented a segment on the 21 year-old legal drinking age this past Sunday. Choose Responsibility was featured prominently the report. This piece is sure to encourage much debate in the upcoming days. If anything, the segment il…
The Fredericksburg Pub opened at the Spotsylvania Town Centre in January, but I had been unable to visit until recently. I finally was able to do so this weekend. When our party arrived was prime time – Friday evening at about 7:00pm and there was qui…
Stonewall’s Reserve Stout is a very limited release from Blue & Gray Brewing Company. This special flavor was created by aging the brewery’s Stonewall Stout in oak bourbon barrels. Barrel aging seems to be all the rage now, and I’ve tasted mixed re…
The largest breweriana show in the East celebrates its thirty-year anniversary this week. I stopped by the Blue Gray Show for a few hours Thursday evening. It seems as if every flat surface, horizontal or vertical, is covered with cans, bottles, glassw…
Just a reminder, the Blue Gray Breweriana Show takes place this week. The show runs Wednesday, February 11 through Saturday, February 15, in Fredericksburg. This year marks the 30th Anniversary of “the biggest breweriana show in the East.” In addition …
It was my privilege to to host the 24th running of The Session. The theme for this month was “A Tripel for Two”. It was a blast reading the numerous contributions. I’m pleased that most folks took the theme to heart and shared their chosen Tripel with …
