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...
This article first appeared on Pour ManBy Kevin Bastian Over the past year, I have met and chatted with Against the Grain Brewery & Smokehouse (AtG) co-owner Sam Cruz a couple of times in my hometown of Chicago, and each time he left me all worked up over checking...
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...
Craft Beer Review By: Alex Marsh Situated in what looks like an unassuming office park is Corcoran Brewing Company of Purcellville, VA. Corcoran does not have any particularly off the wall brews; instead specializing in producing more traditional styles well. Many of...
I have been amazed at how much conversation has been created by the Sierra Nevada Beer Camp Across America 12-pack of collaboration beers. The crazy thing is how the comments are all over the board. There are a lot of people that truly enjoyed this group of beers. ...
Southern California is home to some of the best IPAs in the world. Everything from Sculpin by Ballast Point (which they’re now selling bottles of with added habanero peppers and soon releasing bottles of Grapefruit Sculpin) to the IPA centric Alpine and Societe, where...
