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The Virginian-Pilot Plant what you need to home-brew beer The Virginian-Pilot Adjuncts, in home-brew speak, are plants used to replace or complement hops to give beers distinctive flavors, odors and colors. "Just about any flower you can eat can be made into a beer," says Rebecca Kneen, an organic farmer and writer from Sorrento ...

The Answer Brewpub- Building an Empire of beer! If you drink beer in Richmond/ Central Virginia you (should) have heard of Mekong. Mekong has some great offerings when it comes to food- authentic Vietnamese cuisine at affordable prices! YAY! What makes Mekong truly great is their selection of beers; there are so many beers I'm not even going t ...

Hello beer lovers and welcome to another edition of the NorCal Beer Blog's brew review. Tonight’s featured beer is Lone Peak Brewery Hippy Highway Oatmeal Stout. From the Lone Peak Brewery website: “Hippy Highway Oatmeal Stout is a robust, deep black ale. this beer is chock full of six different imported English malts and 10% ...

The National Football League regular season returns tomorrow when the Packers and Seahawks face off. Arguably as important to many fans is the concurrent return of fantasy football, a freight train of a hobby that picks up steam year after year. In honor of the return of both flavors of football, real and fantasy, DCBeer and some of our friends ...

No more than a couple weeks ago, I got an offer for perhaps the greatest junket imaginable.  Mark Dredge at Pencil and Spoon does work for Pilsner Urquell.  They thought it would be nice to have some writers come and check out the Saaz crop in nearby Zatec, and asked him to put together a list of folks.  When the invite came down ...

Hi, we’re back. Here’s some good news (as opposed to the mideast, midwest, and Southwest Airlines). The 18th Street Brewery in Gary plans to double capacity and start canning by the end of the year. Sun King plans to add a 2nd brewery and tasting room in Fishers. article Triton is celebrating their 3rd anniversary on Sept 20th. F ...

I don't quite subscribe to the theory (for lack of a better word) of the “right glass” for this or that style of beer. Firstly because sensory experiences can not be objectively evaluated or quantified (EDIT: outside of a controlled environment), and secondly because, although the science behind it is more or less solid, there are ...

Everyone, the day is finally here! Having covered much of the progress that Dave and Wyndee made to get this point, I am exceptionally excited and happy for both of them. The entire CraftHaus team has worked very hard to get to this point, and they have some awesome beer to finally share with all of you. As an added bonus, if you are present on ...

New pint heralds real ale celebration at Dawlish rail station Exeter Express and Echo The brew, Dawlish - on Track, which boasts a 5per cent ABV,- will be raised at Dawlish railway station on Saturday when real ale campaigners from across the region gather for the special celebration. Organised by the Exeter and East Devon CAMRA group,& ...

Beers, Burgers, Bonnie and ArtMedia ReleaseWe’ll be pouring fresh beers on the lawn from our caravan on Father’s Day at Goma. Drop by during the day or book in for a special beer and food tasting with the boys, Jamie and Ross and GOMA’s Exec. Chef…So next weekend is Father’s Day. A day for all the guys and thei ...