By Greg B. Of all the traditional Trappist Belgian beers, my favorite tends to be the dubbel.  While not all Trappist monasteries have an official ‘dubbel’, but sometimes use the values Plato that their beer …

By Greg B.  It’s been a busy year for me, as far as beer tastings/brewing/reviewing is concerned.  While I have not kept track, I’d wager a good 200 beers were covered here on the Food …

By Greg B.  Like most people, I’ve had those nights in a bar when, for whatever reason, the sweet siren song of a few pints of cider calls my name, and I listen.  And like …

By Greg B. If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a hundred times, I love to see breweries experimenting with beers.  And Holidays provide the perfect platform for such experimentation.  Mostly because we, …

By Greg B. I love learning about breweries I didn’t know about.  A few months ago, I was at Max’s on Broadway here in Baltimore and I ordered a bottle (rather expensive, by the bottle).  …

By Greg B. I like to see holiday beers.  It gives a brewery a sense of familiarity with the brewery’s drinking masses.  While we regularly line up and pay for their normal production, once …

By Greg B.  Well, it’s December 20th and I just dropped off the last of my two roommates.  They’re both female, and are not too keen on the whole beer drinking/brewing deal (though their preferences …

By Greg B.  I’ve lived in Baltimore now for 9 years.  Though that is almost a solid decade, the first four years were in undergraduate college which is a very insulated, self-contained type of lifestyle.  …

By Greg B.  Yep, it’s that time of year again.  For those of you who know, you can find Samichlaus in the beer stores!  For those of you who don’t yet know, this is one …

By Greg B.  I know this is out of season, but I have a surplus of these beers after the most recent Gregtoberfest/Jertag IV, so I’ve been drinking  a few of them a week trying …