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Local GABF Winners

By From http://vadavid.blogspot.com/ • Oct 12th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Well another Great American Beer Festival has come and gone. I didn’t go to Denver, but was fun to attend vicariously through various craft beer blogs. Those of us enjoying our beer at home were also able to participate in the “not at GABF” Twitter str…



Weekend Beer Events

By From http://vadavid.blogspot.com/ • Oct 9th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Events

The Great American Beer Festival is taking place in Denver Thursday through Saturday. If you’re reading this, you’re probably not at GABF. But that’s okay, there are still things to do locally. In Timonium, MD the Maryland Brewer’s Oktoberfest is being…



Historical (or Hysterical) Health Claims for Beer

By From http://vadavid.blogspot.com/ • Oct 8th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

The father and son team over at Dr. Beer Love recently did a review of Pilsner Urquell and wrote about an alleged benefit of drinking “The Original Pilsner.”Because of it’s water source, Pilsner Urquell has been used throughout Europe by many people to…



The LDA: The issue is responsibility, not age

By From http://vadavid.blogspot.com/ • Oct 8th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

There’s an editorial published at Forbes.com that’s sure to raise some eyebrows. Will Wilkinson suggests that instead of lowering the legal drinking age, consideration should be given to doing away with it all together. This is sure to get a raised eye…



Hunting the Wild Hop

By From http://vadavid.blogspot.com/ • Oct 7th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

With all the focus on the commercially cultivated hops used in our favorite beverages, and the shortage of same, it’s interesting to note that the common hop plant, Humulus lupulus, is found growing throughout the United States and Canada. The United S…



One Year of Musing

By From http://vadavid.blogspot.com/ • Oct 6th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Today, October 6, marks the one year anniversary of the launch of “Musings Over A Pint.” It hardly seems like a year has passed. Coincidently, this post marks my 300th post to the blog. Is there any significance to either milestone? Probably only to me. What has the past year wrought? The first thing that […]



World Beer Festival – Durham 2008

By From http://vadavid.blogspot.com/ • Oct 6th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Events

This weekend three friends and I headed south to attend the World Beer Festival in Durham, North Carolina. As Frank, Jerry and I did last Spring when we attended the WBF in Raleigh, we made a weekend getaway of it.Cris, Frank, Jerry and I started our t…



Weekend Beer Events

By From http://vadavid.blogspot.com/ • Oct 3rd, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

The 9th annual Mid-Atlantic Oktoberfest takes place in Arlington on Saturday. Also on Saturday is the World Beer Festival in Durham. It’s too bad I can’t be in two places at once as both of these events will be a lot of fun. I will be in Durham at the …



Beer in Colonial Virginia

By From http://vadavid.blogspot.com/ • Oct 2nd, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Frank Clark is the historic foodways supervisor for Colonial Williamsburg. He is also the author of a research paper entitled “A Most Wholesome Liquor: Beer and Ale in 18th-Century England and America”. The dailypress.com, a Hampton Roads news site, ha…



A Few Evenings in Denver

By From http://vadavid.blogspot.com/ • Oct 2nd, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

I spent a few days in Denver this week on business. As I usually do, I managed to work in some beer stops as well. On Monday evening, my first stop was the Great Divide Tap Room. There I enjoyed a Hercules Double IPA. Hercules is one of my favorite bee…