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It’s toasted: brown ale

This brew was an attempt to make a brown ale using brown malt that I made by toasting half a pound of 2-row malt in my oven for thirty minutes. I also used a pound of oats that I had toasted using a similar method (the oats were in the oven for an hour as opposed to [...] [...]

Flying Fish Brewing Company announces the newest entry in their Big-Bottle Exit Series: Exit 16 Wild Rice IPA

CHERRY HILL, NJ – Flying Fish Brewing Company (1940 Olney Avenue, 856-489-0061), is excited to announce the debut of their new Exit 16 Wild Rice Double IPA, the latest entry in their “Exit Series” of big-bottle beers honoring their home state of … [...]

Hair of the Dog Brewing Co.’s Alan Sprints

Brewmaster Alan Sprints founded Hair of the Dog Brewing Company in 1992. Inspired by Winter Ales Alan’s brewing focuses on robust, complex beers. This small batch brewery produced roughly 700 barrels of beer in 2009.  These extraordinary, rare brews are bottle conditioned, and are therefore ideal for aging. Described in Malt Advocate magazine as having , [...] [...]

As if by magic, some research on pub quizzes

“Pub quizzes seems to be catering for what people are talking about these days. A team is now really disadvantaged if they do not have someone who knows about soap operas and pop stars.”From soft drink brand J20 [...]

What colour is the sun?

“You can please some of the people some of time, but not all of the people, all of the time.” Is that how the saying goes?I am frequently reminded that our Thursday night quiz is too difficult. Tonight was another of those evenings. “If the quiz was ea… [...]

Founders – Backwoods Bastard

Tonight’s review comes to you again from the Founders Brewing Company. This is on their Backwoods Bastard. The Info: Backwoods Bastard is Scotch Ale that is aged in Oak bourbon barrels. It’s IBU’s clocks in at 50 and it’s 10.2% abv. Needless t… [...]

Homebrew and Chemistry 2010-02-26 19:50:00

The ACS national conference is coming up. The theme is sustainability. The keynote speech is Green Chemistry: Chemical Solutions for a Sustainable World. The whole "green" thing reminded me of a post I wrote almost 2 years ago. Since I’m semi-retired from blogging, I thought I’d do a little reposting to fill up the space.Here is my opinion of "going green" from a May 2008 post.=================== [...]

Dogfish Head event at Earth Bread and Brewery

So last night I decided to brave Snowicane 2010 to head on over to Earth Bread + Brewery because I heard though social media that Dogfish Head was holding and even there and that Sam would be there. The roads weren’t nearly as bad as they are today b… [...]

It’s Finally Here…..A Beer Festival Of Our Own.

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After months of back alley dealings and hushed bar room conversations we have finally decided to get the ball rolling on a beer festival for the people on the peninsula. The first meeting is planned at an undisclosed location but here is what I can tell you so far. June 20th-26th will be the first [...] [...]

McGuires Trip Report 15 Feb 10

For the fortunate ECHO members off work on President’s Day, a trip to McGuire’s in Destin was a great way to celebrate. After rallying at Beef’s in Lynn Haven, Jason, Jen, Mattie, Jesse, John, Leann, Mike and Rachel all departed for the hour-plus… [...]

Mexican Hot Dog

Twice now, I’ve had the pleasure of enjoying a nearly perfect bar snack at Cantina Dos Segundos.  Their mexican hot dog is only on the special menu, so I hope it’s not a temporary thing.  Because for $3, you get a grilled hot dog, topped with all sorts of delicious slop, including queso blanco and [...] [...]

Porky the Pork Pig in a Bacon Blanket

All these beer reviews lately, you’d think this blog was about … beer. Au contraire, my friends (French for “nuh uh”). If you’ll point your attention to the navigation over there on the right side of this page, you’ll note a mysterious, delicious category called “Meat Stunts.” That’s where you’ll find instructions for home made [...] [...]

Good Burp, the website

That’s right, Good Burp will soon have a it’s own Website. A site to enjoy more Good Burp. With a blog, you can only do so much. You can write about the things you like, or know, or hate, or just about anything else. In my case, I love to write about … [...]

Chatoe Rogue – First Growth Dirtoir Black Lager

Greetings! Today’s review comes to you from Oregon by the wonderful people at Rogue. The beer we are reviewing is from their First Growth series. It’s the Dirtoir Black Lager. I purchased this beer at Blue Dog Pub in Lansdale, PA. This series is … [...]

Talk About The Passion

Pale Ale (Sierra Nevada) – Murmur (R.E.M, 1983) Qualche giorno fa mi e’ capitato di riascoltare l’esordio dei R.E.M., Murmur, e di pensare a quanto questo disco avesse influenzato la musica americana da li’ in avanti. Non fu un grosso successo commerciale (200mila copia vendute quell’anno), sebbene la critica ne fosse entusiasta da subito. Il [...] [...]

Episode 136 – Bell’s Winter White

Sent to us by the awesome Chris Quinn, Bell's Winter White is Bell's answer to the normally heavy beers that define the winter season. However, there doesn't seem to be anything that separates this from a normal, summer-time wheat bee… [...]

Friends: Please look for all food & drink posts at www.syracuse.com/food

Hey everyone: In order to make this web site easier to navigate, you will now find all our posts related to food, dining, drinks & drinking (that includes beer, wine, cocktails etc.) at this address: www.syracuse.com/food You’ll still be… [...]

beer controversy in Iceland!

The Ölvisholt Brewery have released their Easter beer, a porter brewed with chocolate, cocoa and vanilla. Very interesting and creative beer. I´ve mentioned the Ölvisholt Brewery before. They are incredibly small, situated in a barn on the south coa… [...]

I’m a super poster!!!!

Ever since I said I was going to quit blogging, I’ve found myself thinking of a lot more blog post ideas. I’ve also found that since I quit, I’ve felt a lot less pressure to post anything. I can’t seem to get myself to totally quit. Slow down, yes, but… [...]

Starkbier – Dopplebock Lager

I decided over the winter to give a try at my second lager. I’m pretty inexperienced with them, but have slowly been learning how to properly lager. I decided on a dopplebock, partially due to the ingredients I had on hand back in January when I… [...]