This month I have the pleasure of hosting The Session – a monthly space for beer bloggers around the world to blog on the same topic on the first Friday of the month. Though my announcement is slightly late, I hope that many bloggers can join us in this fun blogging exercise – posts are [...]
For those who may not have known me before I was the Beer Babe, I have a dirty secret. Though I’ve lived in New England since 2000, there’s something that you all should probably know…
I’m a New Yorker.
While I am half kidding about it being a “dirty” secret, that hasn’t stopped me from buying a [...]
Now, for those of you who feel like stoning me for claiming some kind of gender bias, let me explain.
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal suggests that a growing number of women are taking jobs as industry beer tasters (i.e., the individuals on a taste panel that determine if a batch of beer [...]
Though I tried many other beers at the American Craft Beer Fest in June, the ones that stood out for me as ones I remembered as being surprised about – and I was happy to try things from some brewers I knew and had previously underestimated, and others that I didn’t know at all.
Cape [...]
As a fortunate gemini, I got to attend the American Craft Beer Festival this year on my birthday – June 19. Put on by Beeradvocate.com and covered by three Hop Press writers (Josh Christie, Steve K. and myself), this festival featured hundreds of beers from some of the biggest names and some of the best [...]
After hearing that a fellow beer blogger Luke Livingston (of www.blogaboutbeer.com) was opening a brewery in Maine – I knew that I had to learn about how this came to be. I mean, how many craft beer enthusiasts have dreamt of standing at the doorway of a brewery and saying, “I [...]
On a warm weekend morning, I got in my car and drove two states to the Brattleboro Brewer’s Festival in Brattleboro, VT. Fellow beer bloggers Tim & Amy Brady (www.hereforthebeer.com) rallied their local and national beer community to pull off the first ever Brattleboro Beer fest. With a little bit of a unique philosophy (embracing [...]
While pawing through some record albums at a garage sale, I came across something that looked just campy and old enough to get me a laugh – an album of “college drinking songs” with a picture on the front of two co-eds wearing cute outfits straight out of the 1950s drinking from huge german beer [...]
As a beer lover, I have often been in situations in which shipping beer would be convenient.
For example:
When I have purchased beer on trips but don’t want to risk them being damanged in luggage,
When I want to share a favorite regional beer with someone from another area,
When friends, relatives, breweries or whatnot decide that they’d [...]
There are few things I like more than taking side trips on vacations to seek out good beer. And in this case, I had the fortunate situation of finding myself on a business trip in San Diego, California – the land of, among many other breweries, Stone Brewing Co.
I found time (well, in reality I [...]
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