Victory Brewing Company is only about 40 minutes from where I live.  They are in Downingtown, Pennsylvania.  It’s funny because when I first started this Year of Beer project a few weeks back I actually complained a bit about how hard it was going to be to meet my goals living in Reading, Pennsylvania.  For [...]

I am excited, I have heard a lot about this documentary in the last few weeks so I decided to order it.  I got home from work and it was on my door step.  It’s a documentary about the big and small breweries in America battling it out for space on the shelf and at [...]

Appalachian Brewing Company is one of our favorite local breweries.  It was part of our whirlwind tour of Central PA Breweries that we did a few weeks back.    They are only an hour or so away from us but until we toured their brewery I had never actually had any of their beer.  What [...]

Yesterday was a very good day, I made my first batch of homebrew.  I had an absolute blast doing it and can’t wait to bottle it and taste it.  Much to my wife’s chagrin, my 3 year old son even helped me and marched around the house singing “beer, beer, beer, beer”.  She actually didn’t [...]

One of my big goals for this year is to try at least 200 different beers and review at least 100 of them.  I am hoping I can do more than that but with budget and time constraints, I think the goal I have set will be hard enough to reach.  One of the best [...]

One of my big challenges for my Year of Beer is going to be learning how to actually taste and review beer.  I am a complete novice at this and could be wrong but it seems to me that if you can’t taste and evaluate beer; if you can’t pick out which flavors are [...]