DCist had an interesting article recently on aging beer. “Liquid Assets: Aged Beer” gives some basic guidelines to help folks get started with putting away beer for future consumption. It’s always interesting to see this information published for the m…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 […]
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…
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 …
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…
