By Greg B. With summer just about here, I decided to try my hand at brewing a hefeweizen.  Hefeweizen beers are unfiltered wheat beers.  Now I know what you’re thinking, you’re saying “but Greg, normally …

A few weeks back, Greg (our beer writer), Gabi (our friend) and I spent the weekend at the St. Michael’s Food and Wine festival. While we loved the event (post forthcoming) which featured hundreds …

Friuli is a small region (less than the size of Connecticut) located in Northeast Italy bordered by the Alps (separate from Austria), Slovenia to the east and the Veneto to the West. The …

By Greg B.  I know this is an unusual Mother’s day gift idea: how many of your mothers actively want beer for mother’s day?  I would wager very few.  But this mother’s day, if …

Mother’s Day is one of those hallmark holidays that I actually think is great (as opposed to Valentine’s day, Sweetest day, etc).  A day in which we remind our moms that we love them and …

Crozes Hermitage is the largest AOC in the northern Rhone Valley of Southern France.  The red wines from Crozes Hermitage are Syrah based, with some wines seeing a touch of either Marsanne or Rousanne.  The …

In an effort to introduce my roommates to beers they may enjoy, I decided to finally stop messing around with beers of more subtle enjoyable nature and go right to the heart of what I …

Well it’s that time of year again, the spring beer season!  Today, for those of you who don’t know, is National Homebrew day, May 7th.  It is the 21st national day, since Congress declared this …

By Greg B. A newer addition to the worldwide beer selection, lager yeast originated at some point in the brewing tradition, a few hundred years ago and were only described/isolated within the past 150 …

I can be a sucker for some summery-fruit beers depending on how hot & humid it gets here in Baltimore, and after I saw this beer I decided to go for it, despite the ill-effects …