My latest featured article for RateBeer’s The Hop Press… posted on Saturday, March 6th.
I recently interviewed Jeff Baker, the wine and beer manager for one of my favorite Vermont beer stores, The Beverage Warehouse , and when I asked him about his favorite beer he was very quick to let me know that there where really just two classes of beer; “Belgians and non-Belgians and the Belgians are the best”. I have to admit that, while I thoroughly enjoy many types and styles of beer, the Belgians (those actually produced in Belgium) and Belgian-styles (those produced elsewhere) are among my favorites as well.
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My latest featured article for RateBeer’s The Hop Press… posted on Saturday, February 20th.
I had the great pleasure to recently visit Stephen Wood at his Lebanon, NH homestead and the home of Poverty Lane Orchards. Poverty Lane Orchard produces the apples which are used to make the traditional, old-world style ciders sold under the name of Farnum Hill Ciders by Stephen and his family.
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My latest featured article for RateBeer’s The Hop Press… posted on Saturday, February 13th.
Located in Winooski, adjacent to Vermont’s largest city, Burlington, lies one of Vermont’s great treasures for serious craft beer drinkers. Tucked back off the road and only recently exposed to passing traffic by the demolition of an old restaurant, lies the Beverage Warehouse . This business, in an unassuming one-story building, established in 1977 by George Bergin and Jen Swiatek, has been described by some people as “the best GD (“gosh darn”) place to buy beer in Vermont”. From my considerable experience traveling around Vermont, without question, the Beverage Warehouse definitely has the best selection of beer available within this state’s borders.
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My latest featured article for RateBeer’s The Hop Press… posted on Saturday, February 6th.
Like many, I plan to take in pro football’s finale, which is on tap for later this weekend. Neither of the teams involved this year fall into the list of favorite teams that I follow regularly (those would be the Patriots and the Steelers), but I do plan to watch anyway and it should be a good game. If I had my druthers, I guess, the Saints would win their first Super Bowl, but I really don’t have a strong preference. My cousins in Indy aren’t going to like that assessment very much.
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My latest featured article for RateBeer’s The Hop Press… posted on Saturday, January 3oth.
I guess that I was not surprised to read this week that the Vermont Legislature had, again, taken up the volatile question of whether the legal drinking age should be changed from the current 21 years back to 18. The reason that I was not that surprised was that this highly polarizing issue has simmered (raged?) in the background of society, occasionally flaring up into the spotlight of the media, for many years.
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My latest featured article for RateBeer’s The Hop Press… posted on Saturday, January 23rd.
I read this book by Stephen Morris a while back, but pulled it back off the shelf again this week. With our long Vermont winter nearly reaching it’s mid-point, my wife and I have begun our annual discussion about vacations for the coming year. Along with inherent appeal to me of the story told by the author in this book, there are a number of things this year which are causing us to rethink our typical vacation patterns of years past. The idea of constructing a vacation around beer for some reason seems perfectly normal to me (my wife has gotten used to beer being the basis of many things in my life).
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My latest featured article for RateBeer’s The Hop Press… posted on Saturday, January 16th.
Recently I was fortunate enough to be involved in a rather unique beer tasting event held at the Three Penny Taproom in downtown Montpelier, Vermont. Shaun Hill, an acclaimed local brewer, was there to introduce a small group of beer aficionados to six very limited-run, barrel-aged beers from Denmark. Due to their limited production, these beers will probably never be distributed or sold here in the US.
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My latest featured article for RateBeer’s The Hop Press… posted on Saturday, January 9th.
There are in today’s marketplace many examples of beer being sold as “organic”. Today we will look at what it means to be organic, examine a brief history of the organic beer movement and a look at how this type of beer may be fairing among beer drinkers.
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My latest featured article for RateBeer’s The Hop Press… first one of 2010… posted on Saturday, January 2nd.
We are at that time of the year when nearly everyone makes some sort of a resolution, pledge or promise for the New Year. These typically are changes that we want or need to make going into the New Year. If you are like me, then some of these resolutions tend to repeat from year to year and, generally, I am not all that successful at keeping these sometimes hastily made affirmations. In this article, I will not be bearing my soul to share all of the resolutions that I have made for 2010, but instead will take a brief look at the history of resolutions and the New Year celebration and then talk more about how your choice of beer can significantly affect one of the more commonly held resolutions.
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My latest featured article for RateBeer’s Hop Press… posted on Saturday, December 26th.
With Thanksgiving over and now Christmas past, everyone’s attention turns to planning for their New Year’s celebration. I don’t really have a regular plan for the New Year’s Eve. Some years it is out with friends to party it up and other years it is a quiet affair at home. This year is probably going to be the latter. Regardless of what the plan for the evening might be, something that has played a part in a few too many of my New Year Day’s rituals has been dealing with a hangover. As stated succinctly on the MayoClinic.com Web site, “Hangovers are caused by drinking too much alcohol”. Yep, I got it… the root cause of the problem has never really been in doubt, but let’s look a little closer at this “dreaded” phenomenon.
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