With Steve Armstrong from Armstrong Ales… We’ve returned! Our (sort of) guest this episode was Steve Armstrong of Armstrong Ales. Some interview clips were spliced in between us discussing some news, playing a “lazy” ...
Monthly Archives: August 2013
Steph’s New Brew Review: Maple Mistress Ale
Saucony Creek’s Captain Pumpkin’s Maple Mistress Ale, A 9.5% pumpkin ale Saucony Creek Brewing Company works with local farmers to grow barley and hops, describing themselves as “forward-thinking cultural curators bringing together local ...
Steph’s New Brew Review: Hop Stoopid Ale
Lagunitas Brewing Company’s Hop Stoopid Ale An 8% Imperial IPA boasting 102 IBUs Lagunitas was founded in 1993 in Lagunitas, California. A year later, they moved to Petaluma, California, where they became one of the fastest growing craft ...
Monastery of Christ in the Desert/Abbey Beverage Co.
While visiting my brother in New Mexico recently, he surprised me with a day trip to Monastery of Christ in the Desert, a Roman Catholic Benedictine monastery near Abiquiu, New Mexico. Located within the Chama Canyon wilderness, it is 75 miles ...
What is Craft Beer?
Depending on who you ask, that is a loaded question. The beer industry in the US has changed dramatically in the last decade or so. Craft Beer, whatever your definition of it, has grown from up and coming trend to full blown huge business. And, ...
Episode 8: Stand Beer Me
With Jared Quigg… Welcome back! In this episode we were joined by guest Jared Quigg. Combined with his forces, we had some good laughs playing Libation or Fabrication, got beerducated in another segment of Know Your Beer, and drank some ...
Steph’s New Brew Review: The Love
Starr Hill Brewery’s The Love, a 4.6% German Hefeweizen It’s no secret that our mission is The Gift of Great Beer. Every culture in the world has a fermented, cereal grain beverage that people use to sit around and talk. I’m a steward of the ...
Top Shelf: Stone Farking Wheaton w00tstout
What does it feel like to have a beergasm and a nerdgasm at the same time? Probably something like slaying a dragon with a lightsaber and being rewarded by grateful villagers with thirty barrels of magic ale and your very own personal holodeck. ...
Steph’s New Brew Review: Dark Hollow
Blue Mountain Barrel House’s Dark Hollow, a 10% imperial stout aged in oak bourbon barrels Blue Mountain Barrel House was founded in 2011 by the Smack family as a sister brewery to the Blue Mountain Brewery, in Afton, Virginia. The original Blue ...
Steph’s West Coast Beerventure
Steph recently spent a couple weeks roaming from San Fransisco to Las Vegas, hitting up some awesome beer spots on the way… San Francisco is a phenomenal city. The people, the sites, the bridges, the food, and… the beer. I enjoyed ...
