Pato Thornycroft (Courtesy of Pato Thornycroft) We have been very lucky at Pints, Forks & Friends to have found some tremendous bloggers who are great people and love craft beer. Some of our bloggers work in the craft beer industry. Others just love to drink craft...
By Erie Better Beer Here is another installment from Mark Pyle and the boys at the Erie Better Beer Bureau. Check out their review of 3 Fonteinen Hommage. Cherry funk, pungent aroma. Medium full bold body... No shortage of flavor. Our Lambic ratings are 4.5, 4.25,...
By John Tisevich The Brew Kettle. Sounds innocent enough right? Well yes and no. The Brew Kettle in Strongsville, Ohio is the first BOP or Brew On Premises in Ohio. Begun in 1995 the brewery is not only a BOP but also a top notch smoke house. And it has grown to...
By John Tisevich Back in the day Cooperstown New York was famous for the hallowed Baseball Hall of Fame. It still is, but before that the area was known as a big time producer of Hops in the area. The area in which Brewery Ommegang is built at one time in the 1800’s...
Homebrew Recipes By: Alex Marsh With fair season coming into full swing for most of the country, I thought I’d write about my homebrew entries from last year’s Great Frederick Fair. Like most of my local competitions, the fair judging takes the BJCP categories and...
Abbaye Notre Dame D'Orval - Orval Brewery By George Horning Abbaye Notre Dame D'Orval, Orval Brewery is located in the southern Belgium province of Luxembourg, and is one of Belgium's six Trappist beer producers. Currently, there are only ten monasteries - six in...
Craft Beer Review: EddyLineBrewing’s 14ER Imperial Java Stout I got super lucky and landed a can of EddyLineBrewing’s 14ER Imperial Java Stout. This beer comes in at a healthy 8.2 ABV. brewed with three pounds of Buena Vista Roastery coffee per barrel, and lots of...
Erie Better Beer Here is another installment from Mark Pyle and the boys at the Erie Better Beer Bureau. Check out their review of Cycle Brewing RareR Dos. Imperial Stout Pritchard's Rum Barrel Aged Cycle Brewing RareR Dos Aroma - Sweet Candy, Rich Rum Smells...
Erie Better Beer Here is another installment from Mark Pyle and the boys at the Erie Better Beer Bureau. Check out their review of Alesmith Barrel Aged Speedway Stout. The boys are doing a blind review. Aroma - Oak, Bourbon, Chocolate, Roast, Vanilla flavors. Taste...
IPAs tend to be a love it or hate it style; they can be fairly polarizing beers due to their inherent nature to be assertive in flavor and aroma. Specifically, the American IPA tends to run big, bold, bitter, and bursting with aroma. It is more assertive than its more...
