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Fresh Hops and Fall Beers

It’s that time of the year again. The furnace kicked on today for the first time since Spring and three weeks into my college football pool, I am once again sitting at the bottom. Fall has arrived.

In addition to football and cold mornings, the start of Fall also signals the hops harvest. Being situated in [...]

Beer’s Carbon Footprint

My wife pointed me to an article on the Green Lantern area of Slate by Nina Rastogi titled “Which is better for the planet, beer or wine?” The article focuses on comparing the carbon footprints of beer and wine.

Now I’m going to [...]

Beer Blending

It seems that more and more breweries are putting out blended beers. Some of these blends are subtle, like Allagash’s Interlude and Odyssey. These two brews each started as a single batch, but are then split, aged separately, and blended back together before bottling. [...]

Beer App: Fun with the Google Maps API

Last week I was able the get the Beer Locator function of my Beer App up and running. The Beer Locator allows Beer App users to enter an address while viewing a beer. A Google Map will return; displaying any bars/restaurants, retail stores or bottle [...]

Review: Dogzilla

Since Fred at Laughing Dog Brewing was nice enough to participate in my Beer Survey, I figured it was time I finally got around to typing up my review of LDB’s Dogzilla Black IPA.

So, what is a Black IPA? It’s an IPA that is brewed with darker malts. The style that has been around for [...]