Here are your opportunities to try some new beers around Fredericksburg this weekend.Also this weekend, the SAVOR, American Craft Beer and Food Experience takes place in Washington, DC.Friday, May 16 – 5:00 – 8:00pmTotal WineFriday 5 @ 5 Beer Tasting:B…

The recent Brasserie Beck newsletter brings word of an interesting, if pricey, Samichlaus beer dinner. I was fortunate to taste some vintage Samichlaus recently and enjoyed it quite a bit.On Tuesday, June 3rd, Brasserie Beck holds its first-ever Beer D…

Via Twitter I was alerted to several items of interest regarding brewers experimenting with alternative ingredients in face of hop and malt shortages and rising costs. Chrisod sent me a link to this Wired article, “Craft Brewers Reformulate Beer to Cop…

Thomas Cizauskas, in his blog Yours for Good Fermentables has posted a photo-journal detailing what goes on behind the scenes in preparing a firkin of fresh Clipper City ale. As a fan of the Clipper City Heavy Seas line, I found it quite interesting. I…

The Fredericksburg area is well-represented at the American Homebrewers Association National Homebrew Competition. The first round results are in and local home brewers have made a good showing in the regional judging for the South. Congratulations fol…

Here are your opportunities to try some new beers around Fredericksburg this weekend.Friday, May 9 – 5:00 – 8:00pmTotal Wine, FredericksburgFriday 5 @ 5 Beer Tasting:Hebrew Messiah BoldLancaster Strawberry WheatLagunitas Maximus Double IPAHofbrau Munch…

The last two beers I posted about were from West Coast breweries, so I figured it’s time to move back to the East. Old Dominion Oak Barrel Stout is an old favorite and one of the first stouts we enjoyed on a regular basis. In fact, we typically have at…

With few exceptions, I prefer to focus on good beers when writing these musings, however the St. Petersburg Times is running an article entitled “The world’s 10 most disgusting beers”:Good beer is increasingly easy to find in America, and that is good …

Seems the seasons are shifting on the calendar. Last January, while in the throes of Winter, we were enjoying Sierra Nevada ESB. In that case, the brewer tells us ESB stands for Early Spring Brew. Recently while shopping for beer, I came across Sierra …