24 Sep

Great American Beer Festival = Supreme Beer Envy!

I am sitting here, reading blog posts, watching videos and following tweets from the Great American Beer Festival and have nothing but envy that I couldn’t make it this year.   It looks like so much fun, I am adding a new goal to my list this year.  I am going to the Great American Beer [...]

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23 Sep

Review of Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout

There it is in all it’s glory!  I can’t imagine too many people have anything bad to say about this beer.  Admittedly it’s the first beer I have ever reviewed so you will have to take my opinion with a grain of salt.  I have done a lot of research into tasting and evaluating beer [...]

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23 Sep

My First Video, I Know, It’s Friggen Awful

Okay, before you watch it, know that I am looking for constructive feedback but I already know several things.  I know that I:

Need a better camera, it’s very grainy
Need better lighting, it looked awful
Need something for audio, it sounds terrible
I don’t know what I am doing

But, I am trying to learn and I do plan [...]

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21 Sep

Brew Your Own Magazine

I got my first issue of Brew Your Own Magazine today.  I was pretty excited to finally have one of the things I subscribed to show up at my door.  I have only just paged through it at this point but I am impressed, it’s a great magazine.  I think it will be a real [...]

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20 Sep

Bottled My Irish Stout Tonight

Last weekend, I had a blast brewing my first batch of homebrew, it’s an Irish Stout and I can’t wait to taste the finished product.  It’s been fermenting all week and all signs point to it being a great fermentation.  I brewed it last Saturday and when I woke up on Sunday, the wort was [...]

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20 Sep

Wegmans Beer Run

Here in the North East, we have a grocery store chain called Wegmans.  It’s not your average grocery store, it’s a bit of a “Foodies Paradise” with lot’s of high quality food you wouldn’t find in most grocery store chains.  My wife has been singing the praises of this grocery store for years and I [...]

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