By Greg B. Some beers defy styles, while others define them.  The Shlenkerla smokebeers (Rauchbier = Smokebeer) essentially define the smokebeer style.  Since the dawn of beer making, maltsters have needed to be skilled at …

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.  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.  For a long time I’ve wanted to get my hands on a used, aged oak barrel.  I haven’t quite cared what was in it previously… bourbon, whiskey, scotch, port, various red wines, …

By Greg B. One of the wonderful things about beer is that it is a drink of the people.  Knowing that people like to celebrate things (seriously, look at your calendar and the frequency of …

By Greg B. One of the beers I’ve been wanting to make for years has been a Pumpkin Ale.  However confident I’ve felt about other styles of beer and my ability to make them, …

By Greg B. For special occasions, it has become a tradition to pop open a bottle of ‘bubbly’.  Whether you prefer to pop the cork gently and controlled, or to saber the top of the …