Starr Hill Brewery was founded in Charlottesville, Virginia in September 1999 when Master Brewer Mark Thomas returned to Virginia after living in Portland, Oregon. The original Starr Hill location was a historic storefront on Main Street, which ...
Monthly Archives: October 2014
We Are Worthy: Stone Brewing Picks East Coast Location
After months of highly-publicized searching and negotiations, Stone Brewing Co. has announced the site of their east coast operation.
Reaping What They Brewed: Homebrew Harvest at The Brewery at Hershey
Summer is the season of beer festivals. You hear that over and over again when you start to chat with people involved in the world of craft beer and homebrewing. By volume, so many craft beer festivals take place during the summer months that a ...
Episode 40: Beerly You Jest
With Natalie DeChico and Christian Mosebach from Weyerbacher Brewing
We took a trip to Easton, PA to sit down with two previous podcast guests at Weyerbacher Brewing Company. Natalie DeChico is Weyerbacher's New Jersey Sales ...
Steph’s New Brew Review: Out of Your Gourd
Redhook Brewery, one of America’s first “craft” breweries, was founded in 1981 by Gordon Bowker and Paul Shipman out of the energy and spirit of the early 1980’s in Seattle, WA. The original brewery was located in a former transmission shop in ...
Catching Suds at Beach Brewing
Beach Brewing Company was founded in Fall 2010 in Virginia Beach, Virginia by Justin MacDonald. At first, they were brewing only 12 gallons at a time. Later, a 5 barrel brewhouse was purchased from a small brewery in New Hampshire, which they ...
O’Connor Brewing Grew from Backyard Homebrewing
O’Connor Brewing Company, located in Norfolk, Virginia, was founded by homebrewer Kevin O’Connor in 2010. He was so passionate about craft beer, he even wrote his final thesis on how to open a brewery. The original beers - Green Can Golden Ale, ...
Episode 39: Beer Country Podcast Radio
With John Gillespie, Author of Beer Country
In this episode we welcomed John Gillespie, author of Beer Country: A Beer Geeks Guide to Southeast Pennsylvania and all-around beer enthusiast, to the Beer Busters Podcast ...
Steph’s New Brew Review: Xocoveza Mocha Stout
Every year Stone Brewing Company hosts an American Homebrewers Association-sanctioned homebrewing competition. This year’s winner, Chris Banker, brewed a chocolate, cinnamon, nutmeg, chile pepper and coffee-infused milk stout, built to mimic the ...
Sass is Sweet at Smartmouth Brewing
Smartmouth Brewing Company, located in Norfolk, Virginia, opened in November 2012 by former corporate lawyer, Porter Hardy IV. His homebrew experimentation has led to one of the Southeast's most promising startup breweries.